[It's an indirect confession of a sort, giving him an out without having to actually commit to the idea when "love" is such a scary term to Sparkling to begin with. He cares about quite a few people, and more still he would do almost anything for, but...he's not sure what's so hard about that one little word, but it makes him recoil every time.
All that matters is the way the flowers binding him inside respond to it, and when Sparkling coughs again it's to hack up a handful of petals that look a lot more withered than the very much alive ones from earlier.]
It's...the first time I've really had to confront...this sort of thing.
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[It's an indirect confession of a sort, giving him an out without having to actually commit to the idea when "love" is such a scary term to Sparkling to begin with. He cares about quite a few people, and more still he would do almost anything for, but...he's not sure what's so hard about that one little word, but it makes him recoil every time.
All that matters is the way the flowers binding him inside respond to it, and when Sparkling coughs again it's to hack up a handful of petals that look a lot more withered than the very much alive ones from earlier.]
It's...the first time I've really had to confront...this sort of thing.