daedalus ---
Daedalus is even more offended by Matilda’s immediate laughter, but it’s hard to tell with the scowl that’s already on his face. It’s not that Dae is incapable of the silliness Matilda tosses lightly for him to catch; but more so that he can almost not fathom how someone else might find him silly. He sighs as Matilda continues to speak, quickly realizing how much of this interaction he has misunderstood.
“Oh,” he accidentally says out loud, followed by a quiet sputtering and vocal disfluencies.
Two neon eyes flash in and out of existence as Dae contemplates the difference between lilacs and lavender. His eyes eventually narrow in suspicion and he reaches down to sniff at the flowers clustered around Matilda’s ghostly antlers. “Yeah, I guess they smell different than lavender,” he concedes.
Daedalus feels a bit of ice around him melting as Matilda’s playful nature warms him. He half-smiles, drawing back to peer at the pastel woman. He pushes a planet similar in color to her (swirls of pale purple and blue and pink) toward Matilda’s antlers, watching as it orbits them before eventually returning to his pull of gravity.
“I’m Daedalus. Who are you?”
-----------we'll have our time when stars collide
@Matilda