{"id":2969,"date":"2014-09-28T23:22:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T23:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/09\/28\/the-meaning-of-the-monocle-83\/"},"modified":"2014-09-28T23:22:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T23:22:48","slug":"the-meaning-of-the-monocle-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/09\/28\/the-meaning-of-the-monocle-83\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of the Monocle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/smokebombsandmirrors.tumblr.com\/post\/98675211405\/the-meaning-of-the-monocle\">smokebombsandmirrors<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So much for being grounded. Kaito paused in his step and swallowed. \u201cIt\u2019s not \u2026. I mean \u2026 Can we both admit that this is different and awkward for both of us?\u201d He winced.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the elephant was acknowledge he could breathe a bit better. He walked over to him and rested a hand on the back of Hakuba\u2019s shoulder before taking his seat. He let his finger slide over the material softly before picking up his utensils again and began to eat with vigor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/88847ae6feaadf771f6c850c88a97730\/tumblr_inline_ncmwxlh3mk1rms2iz.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Yes, I believe&hellip;&rdquo; \u00a0Hakuba&rsquo;s voice trailed as Kaito touched his shoulder, gaze following the movement of the other&rsquo;s hand, even after Kaito went back to eating. &ldquo;Ah&hellip; yes, it&rsquo;s a little&hellip; yes, what you said, precisely.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He wasn&rsquo;t usually this bad with communication, even with Kaito. At least, during school he&rsquo;d managed to keep his composure for the most part, even when frustrated. And during heists, well, that was another matter all together. But here, in this intimate setting, just like the last&hellip; It was the one-on-one moments, with no one prying, that were truly the most challenging, and Hakuba was\u00a0<em>failing<\/em> to live up to his own expectations.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I hope the meal is to your liking.&rdquo; His voice, timid, announced the turn of his head back to his own setting as he reached for the wine he&rsquo;d poured.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>smokebombsandmirrors: So much for being grounded. Kaito paused in his step and swallowed. \u201cIt\u2019s not \u2026. I mean \u2026 Can we both admit that this is different and awkward for both of us?\u201d He winced. Now that the elephant was acknowledge he could breathe a bit better. He walked over to him and rested a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,75,234,1933,77],"class_list":["post-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ic","tag-rp","tag-smokebombsandmirrors","tag-the-meaning-of-the-monocle","tag-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}