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• ☻ —— how she hugs.
  

it depends. if you’re just some distant relative she hasn’t seen in a few years, you’ll receive something short lived, with her slender arms wrapped around your torso for the briefest of periods; even her mother doesn’t earn much more than a quick, yet meaningful squeeze. but friends are an entirely different story. if she loves you, you’ll know it in the way she wraps herself around you, with a petite frame pressed against yours while nuzzling her face into the crook of your neck. she’ll breathe in your scent and make your bones into a home before letting you go; dainty fingers unconsciously gripping at the clothes adorning your back. and for a moment or so after she’s gone, you’ll still feel the impression of her ——- a print of sorts; the warmth of her flesh that’d met yours still lingering. because with all the people they’ve lost, lydia’s learned to hold you as if it’d be the last time she ever could.