Kib can't so much flee. He can shriek - he can lurch in the direction of the nearest house and try the door - it's locked. He can amble briskly...
He can break into a run when the snake gains on him and fall flat on his face.
And he can get eaten up.
And it's too bright too bright too bright and he flings his arm over his eyes.
So he lifts him off his feet and then swings him smugly into his arms and then checks with osanwë whether anyone is present and carries him down a hallway and through a door and through another and they're in his rooms and he lets Kib down before he starts kissing him but does not in fact give him time to find his feet.
...Kib isn't getting any less smug, although being actively kissed does limit the extent to which he can radiate smugness through facial expressions.
All of these activities are available. Is it unbraiding time? It seems like unbraiding time. Soft~!
Gosh. That just makes running his fingers through the soft all the more rewarding an activity.
- that suffices to displace some smug. Or possibly just concentrate the smug. It also suffices to elicit whimpering noises.
I am - sometimes - patient. Not at the moment. It's possible to confuse the emotions with your own. If I sent a random human a very strong impression of overwhelming desire, they'd think 'suddenly I am consumed with desire' not 'conveniently I can tell what Maitimo's experiencing' - you might have enough exposure to osanwë at this point, and being forewarned helps, but -