Title: Imperfection
Author: Mad Hatter, L. Carol
Word Count: 124
Warning: social awkwardness, hugging
Characters: Phobos, Elyon
heir presumptive. noun. - a person scheduled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir or heiress apparent or of a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the throne.
35. Imperfection
Phobos didn't really know how to hug. Oh sure, he knew the basic principle of the thing and the reasons for giving one; he had even been given one somewhere in the distant past, by his mother or possibly an aunt... but actually hugging another person was rather out of his range of human interaction. He didn't know where to put his arms or how long to leave them there or how hard to squeeze. It gave him an unusual sense of embarrassment as he embraced his lost sibling for the first time. No doubt the little sacrifice would chalk up any deviations to over-wrought emotions at the time, but it still niggled at Phobos. It should have been simple to hug his sister.