Casey brought their chin down to nudge Gabriel back, shifting enough to bring their arms around more fully. The shape was definitely different from holding a humanoid, yet at the same time it was just as good. Warm and solid and the texture was soft and velvety where they encountered fur, smooth and giving where scales rippled over muscle. Then sighed.

"I guess I just don't see myself as being something that extraordinary," Casey admitted. It was still difficult to voice some of the more negative thoughts they had, but this one was a little easier when it was on-topic and they really didn't want to mess anything up just in case Gabriel's true soulmate was someone else out there. That thought wrenched something painfully in Casey's heart, but it was one they couldn't help but probe at. What if, what if.