[there is definitely at least one nearby food industry worker nearby who agrees with ronan's assessment. they mumble a curse, finding the introduction of surprise strangulation to be worse, not better. stumble away, their cups sloshing.
kavinsky in the meantime has the opposite reaction. the wrong one. his throat is unresisting in ronan's hand, aside from the small bones of his throat pressing their fragile shape against the other boy's calluses. dr. chilton had hired men to teach kavinsky how to fight, but none of them corrected his twisted and impossible sense of when or why.
he looks at ronan, his pupils junkie-huge, two tiny reflections of ronan from slightly different angles.]
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kavinsky in the meantime has the opposite reaction. the wrong one. his throat is unresisting in ronan's hand, aside from the small bones of his throat pressing their fragile shape against the other boy's calluses. dr. chilton had hired men to teach kavinsky how to fight, but none of them corrected his twisted and impossible sense of when or why.
he looks at ronan, his pupils junkie-huge, two tiny reflections of ronan from slightly different angles.]
I was going for romantic.