"Thank you." A pub is a good place. He'll order food, and Wolfgang can eat, and then he will definitely have a hot chocolate, and if Wolfgang wants to get drunk then he can get drunk, and Shrieky can keep an eye on him and make sure he gets home all right.
It doesn't seem like he's doing enough though. Not really. Not when Wolfgang's so clearly unhappy, and he's already managed to alarm him by running up and smacking him on the hand.
Shrieky tries to think of things that would make him feel better. Being noticed, being wanted, being liked. Shrieky isn't certain that putting heaps of attention onto Wolfgang was the kind of thing that he would appreciate, so instead, he asks: "It's completely alright if the answer is no, or if this is a strange thing to ask, but could I hold your hand? While we walk there, I mean?"
He isn't certain how else to do this, but he wants to... make his fondness of the other man obvious and manifest in some way, without actually going so far as to make Wolfgang uncomfortable. Even if making Wolfgang uncomfortable is clearly his specialty.
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It doesn't seem like he's doing enough though. Not really. Not when Wolfgang's so clearly unhappy, and he's already managed to alarm him by running up and smacking him on the hand.
Shrieky tries to think of things that would make him feel better. Being noticed, being wanted, being liked. Shrieky isn't certain that putting heaps of attention onto Wolfgang was the kind of thing that he would appreciate, so instead, he asks: "It's completely alright if the answer is no, or if this is a strange thing to ask, but could I hold your hand? While we walk there, I mean?"
He isn't certain how else to do this, but he wants to... make his fondness of the other man obvious and manifest in some way, without actually going so far as to make Wolfgang uncomfortable. Even if making Wolfgang uncomfortable is clearly his specialty.