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clarke "no chill" griffin ([personal profile] skaikru) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway 2022-05-05 07:11 am (UTC)

( you ever distrust someone so much that everything they say and do instantly throws your bullshit-meter into orbit, never to truly come back down? pretty much every single word of venti's rebuke further aggravates a vein that stands out along clarke's tightly held jawline, and it's becoming a true hero's feat not to roll her eyes directly in his face. if he'd cared so much for her plans and tactics, what kept him from telling the truth over a few bottles in the shadowed depths of a bar? or at any point between then and now? or why not ask to leave the dance floor together and sit somewhere quieter to expand upon this subject instead of rising to literally every piece of bait dangled in front of his nose.

venti being a good or bad dancer (he's way better than clarke, for whatever that's worth) isn't the biggest issue here. she's mostly just embittered and desperately clawing for something to cow or galvanize him with. the problem being everything seems to roll off venti's shoulders along the folds of that stupid little green cape, and it gets old after a while. if she's impressed by his dance routine — specifically, the freedom of it; the lack of inhibition in every movement, the carefree delight that goes along with moving to a beat, the seemingly impromptu but polished spectacle of it — it doesn't show. and if she's a little bit tempted to take that hand he offers and just... who knows, give fun a whirl, it's only obvious in the amount of time it takes before clarke retreats a half-step.

there's no waking him up before she go-go's.

either feel oddly unseated, or weirdly proud about the absolute efficiency clarke uses to turn on her heel and meld back into the crowd, venti. it's supposed to suck being left in the thick of something, and despite herself, clarke hopes it resonates with him. )

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