{ Learn To Make A Heart Flutter }
Silver guards his heart jealously, obscuring it as surely as he obscures everything about his past. It takes about two years before he fully starts thinking of himself as Silver, so letting someone close before he’s fully established who he wants to be – who he needs to become – is incredibly difficult to manage.
It would be a lie to claim he does not have a weakness for Spanish songs, and for the sound of his mother tongue in prose and prayer. He pretends not to notice it, or to be moved – but in those rare times when he hears native speakers he feels more whole and at ease in existence than he does at any other point.
Those who have learned the language, but have no mastery of the accent, make him uneasy and even angry, to the point he revealed his own fluency aboard the Walrus simply to avoid hearing his language be chopped and butchered so bitterly.
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