[Standing up properly allows her to relax against him, her height advantage meaning that she can pull him in closer and feel their bodies pressed together in a way she hadn't experienced with her other dancing partners. They had been human, taller.
9S is 9S and there is no substitute for him.]
You'll tell me if anyone hurts you, won't you? If they ask you to do something you don't want to.
[She's acted protectively towards him before but she's not sure if he's recognized it that way. Her hands holding his shoulders too tightly when she pulled him from danger, putting her body in front of his during an attack, and at the end when she had sent him from battle, cloaked herself so he couldn't find her and get himself hurt. She's done it so many times but always in ways that were so much less obvious than this, but this one time she just doesn't care.]
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9S is 9S and there is no substitute for him.]
You'll tell me if anyone hurts you, won't you? If they ask you to do something you don't want to.
[She's acted protectively towards him before but she's not sure if he's recognized it that way. Her hands holding his shoulders too tightly when she pulled him from danger, putting her body in front of his during an attack, and at the end when she had sent him from battle, cloaked herself so he couldn't find her and get himself hurt. She's done it so many times but always in ways that were so much less obvious than this, but this one time she just doesn't care.]