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The reaction was rather interesting. A perfect blush drifted over his cheeks, and nose while his eartips also turned a lovely pink. He was so pink, mind you, that perhaps one might think he wasn't originally a white stag, but a rose one.

So he HAD been right. And Silver had been right. And and...whoa.

"....me?" he managed intelligently, a very small grin peeking through his flustered expression.

He wanted to ask her what she meant exactly, but he had a feeling it was probably along the line of his thinking right now with how stressed and worried she sounded. He wanted to ask why too, but he figured that wasn't something so easily answered.

"Um."

He rubbed at his face with his hands, willing the fire to go down in his cheeks. This was so WEIRD...but...strangly good? He didn't know exactly what to say.

Yani o_@'ed at the noise of Keir's head hitting the table and might have laughed if he wasn't so "WTFOMGBBQ" at that moment. Instead, he went route that perhaps neither he or she was expecting...the words left his mouth before he realized what he was saying.

"...since I guess it's only fair...um...I thought you were..uh.......-special-. For a long time."

Ooooh s**t. Now things were getting way more involved than he had meant. Now he was damning Silver for the embarassment he was putting them both through...but maybe thanking him a little bit too? Who knows.

"...um. You know."

Yani felt himself starting to retreat back into his "shell", something he hadn't done in a very long time. Hands splayed across his face to hide his expression, which looked almost sick now.

s**t. Now he was in a position he didn't want to be in. ...and what if he still had all this wrong?! Crap crap crap...

"I...well," he murmered from behind his hands, feeling the blush completely drain away. He felt really sick now and would have paled further had his complextion allowed it. "What I mean is...um."

Dammit. Just say it.

"....I kinna. Um." His hands collapsed then into his lap, deciding this was a losing battle. He looked almost terrified now.

"Like....you. As in, um. Maybe a girlfriend?"

Yani actually looked like he might cry at this point, his ears pulled back against his hair. He felt so messed up. Nothing was making sense...he hadn't meant to say what he said in the sense that this was all stuff he kept away from everything else. It was all meant to be a secret so he could just continue on in life and not end up dying of sheer embarrassment later on.

So much for that plan. Maybe it was the wine's fault.

He hid his face again, burying his misery in his palms, barely hearing Keir's query. He felt obligated to answer, but he was so flustered that he just nodded.

The fact that she hadn't said anything further on "the" subject made him feel a little worse. Maybe he had it all wrong now. Dammit. Dammitdammitdammit....

He slumped in his chair and dropped his hands onto the table, upsetting the silverware and nearly knocking over his wine glass.

"I'm not joking."

Suddenly nothing seemed funny anymore. He needed to excuse himself for a moment, but he didn't know where he could go to compose himself. He was stuck...being blind, he couldn't just wander off on his own anyway. Too bad he couldn't just melt into the floor. That'd solve his problem.

"Just...nevermind. Forget I said anything," he said quietly. He had to have all this wrong. Great.....just great.

The fa'e looked shocked at her sudden outburst and would have stared at her if he had the ability.

"Fine then, you -tell- me what you meant then. I told you, you -tell me-," he said, forcing his voice to not quaver. "I admitted more than you did and for me to to not get any sort of response that way or otherwise...I figured you just didn't want to go there."

He propped his elbows on the table and put his head in his hands, the fingertips buried in his own hair.