[Oof. The impact of those words is...pretty damn scathing. Vash feels it in his core, and he realizes abruptly that he's had enough time out in the town frolicking in the snow. If Ain wanted to stay longer, then he would do so while Consumed With Lust, but. It doesn't sound like he wants to do that. He said so himself: I want to spend time with you alone.
And it's for that reason that Vash reaches for and takes Ain's hand, completely consumed by a moment of blind, gay panic to the point where he doesn't really think about how it might appear to onlookers. Onlookers, who just watched him collar his pet. He isn't really even aware of the others standing around at all as he starts to tug Ain down the sidewalk, at least until he inevitably bumps into somebody walking the other direction because he's clumsy and has to apologize about it.]
my duty popped and prevented me from finishing this tag and I believe that's homophobic in this essa
And it's for that reason that Vash reaches for and takes Ain's hand, completely consumed by a moment of blind, gay panic to the point where he doesn't really think about how it might appear to onlookers. Onlookers, who just watched him collar his pet. He isn't really even aware of the others standing around at all as he starts to tug Ain down the sidewalk, at least until he inevitably bumps into somebody walking the other direction because he's clumsy and has to apologize about it.]