Re: [arcade: hannah, david, eddie]
"I won't change shapes. I'm not a selkie. I'm a girl, and this is me, and I'll always be this." It was untruth, but it was the kind of untruth Hannah felt she could be forgiven for. She wanted to be this girl forever. This girl with the copper hair and the cornflower eyes. She wanted this whir and click and grind. She wanted to remember all of this, and she wanted to never forget, and it was the fear of forgetting, of being undone, that led her to fib, and lie, and shhhh.
But the inside of the arcade was wonderment, and Hannah closed the door after herself once David stepped inside.
Eddie was there, and she lit up like fireflies when she saw him. It had been a while, and she really liked Eddie very much, and she was glad to see him enshrined in smoke and dressed in green. "I like your glasses," she told him, and she did, and she looked over at David when Eddie greeted him.
She hugged Eddie tightly, sniffing and remembering, and then she rocked back on her flats and watched as a hand was held out to David. "The book party was wonderful," she said, and she leaned back against an old game. "Thank you," she told the game, because it was doing her a favor, and perhaps that betrayed something she didn't mean to betray, and then she looked between the men with cornflower gaze curious and curiouser. "Eddie's a really good friend, David."