[Of all the responses Jack had been expecting, this...was most certainly not one of them.]
[If anything he only really has time for a confused blink, as Enma seems to try to start saying something, stops, simply moves forward instead--and the process ends up proceeding so quickly from there that there's no interval of wondering why he's getting closer than usual. One moment he's addressing Enma cheerfully enough, and the next--]
[He's being hugged.]
[It's more than enough to elicit something of a startled wheeze on Jack's part, probably more than a little undignified; his entire frame freezes up from the moment of contact, and stays that way for a couple of seconds before slowly, tenuously relaxing. Pulling in another breath, exhaling sharply again...the arm not holding his staff, after a bit of an outward jerk out of pure reflex, eventually unlocks, shifts to automatically curve around Enma's back in return. Still kind of awkward, and more than a little tentative, as if he's trying to pat glass instead of an actual person, but...hugbacks are still something he's working on, for certain.]
[It's so warm. Just shy of being too warm, just as it had kind of been with Jamie, except that Enma's a bit taller and the feelings are a bit different...]
[But in the end, it's still nice on such a novel level.]
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1/2 omg yes FINALLY A CHANCE TO USE THIS ICON.....
[Of all the responses Jack had been expecting, this...was most certainly not one of them.]
[If anything he only really has time for a confused blink, as Enma seems to try to start saying something, stops, simply moves forward instead--and the process ends up proceeding so quickly from there that there's no interval of wondering why he's getting closer than usual. One moment he's addressing Enma cheerfully enough, and the next--]
[He's being hugged.]
[It's more than enough to elicit something of a startled wheeze on Jack's part, probably more than a little undignified; his entire frame freezes up from the moment of contact, and stays that way for a couple of seconds before slowly, tenuously relaxing. Pulling in another breath, exhaling sharply again...the arm not holding his staff, after a bit of an outward jerk out of pure reflex, eventually unlocks, shifts to automatically curve around Enma's back in return. Still kind of awkward, and more than a little tentative, as if he's trying to pat glass instead of an actual person, but...hugbacks are still something he's working on, for certain.]
[It's so warm. Just shy of being too warm, just as it had kind of been with Jamie, except that Enma's a bit taller and the feelings are a bit different...]
[But in the end, it's still nice on such a novel level.]