God, thinking about those eyes was enough to make Tina actually want to drink, like tough men in bad movies with lots of violence and man pain. He was so glad that she skimmed over the inquiry and continued talking about herself.
"The thing about L'academie is, and I didn't appreciate this on my first time through, but this is a place where you have the chance to just... not be you. Or be you, but the part of you that you'd actually like. You never have to worry about powers fucking up, or people judging you because you're a freak, or... I mean we're all freaks. And not just because some of us have scales and tails, know what I mean?" The hand on his chest reached over to pat Daryn's leg, but he missed several times, and instead gave a comforting tap to the air in her general space. "We've all got terrible stories. You could, like... take comfort in that. If you wanted."