[He's very flustered. He'd forgotten what being this flustered was like, but the reassurance does help quite a lot. It's calming... though he doesn't come out of hiding just yet.
Especially not when Dedue presses another one of those soft kisses to his hair just when he starts to think he's getting control of how flustered he is.
He isn't, clearly.
So he does the first thing that comes to mind that just might have any hope of getting Dedue at least somewhat flustered, too - he nips a line up his neck gently, just enough to sting but not enough to hurt, a graze of teeth that pulls the affection he's giving out of the realm of 'soft and gentle' and into something a shade more intense until he gets up to his jaw, where he presses a harder kiss with just the slightest graze of teeth instead of a proper nip or bite.]
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Especially not when Dedue presses another one of those soft kisses to his hair just when he starts to think he's getting control of how flustered he is.
He isn't, clearly.
So he does the first thing that comes to mind that just might have any hope of getting Dedue at least somewhat flustered, too - he nips a line up his neck gently, just enough to sting but not enough to hurt, a graze of teeth that pulls the affection he's giving out of the realm of 'soft and gentle' and into something a shade more intense until he gets up to his jaw, where he presses a harder kiss with just the slightest graze of teeth instead of a proper nip or bite.]