[ summoning her aibou, cujo, she orders him to fetch them a couple different kinds of doritos. and some mountain dew! and then... oh. she doesn't know how she keeps just... forgetting. it's a habit. being close to people, but she absolutely does *not* want to force him to endure it, because seeing him uncomfortable is breaking her heart. ]

[ she lets him move it away and she, instead, curls it around herself, constricting more tightly that she probably meant. ]

Don't apologize.

Is there... anything I can do to help ease the pain?