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First things first, despite not ‘living’ for a long time; Caelus knew that there were many many species, and many that looked just like your average human but were not.
The example could be himself, from outside he looked normal, human. Humans did not have yellow blood and veins, nor their heart and eyes could glow. Speaking of heart, Herta also said that he did not have a heart very literally and instead his stellaron was acting as a heart. So yeah, he in fact was not human –and first of his kind, probably– but he did not care. That was how things were.
However, this did not mean he ever considered there might be someone also not fully human in the Express. So you cannot really blame him when he accidentally made Dan Heng purr.
After all the this stellaron of Belobog’s problem was done, they were finally was able to sleep in the Goeth Hotel without having to worry about getting arrested next day.
Caelus somehow -really really somehow- woke up early that day, and he had absolutely no idea what to do at 7am. So he decided to annoy Dan Heng because he was sure Dan Heng would be awake. Dan Heng always wakes him up and somewhy insisted that he wanted to wake Caelus himself after all. He was wrong.
He knocked on Dan Heng's door, waiting for a familiar ‘Who?’. He received nothing, even if he knocked a few times. So he slowly opened the door to see if he was awake.
While the inside of the room was pretty tidy and he was not surprised in the slightest, he was not waiting for the heat hitting him(notthatheatyouabobrainrotted.). The room was pretty hot and on top of that Dan Heng had a blanket on top of him. He knew Dan Heng's body was much more cold and he would often stay around anything that gives heat, it must be because of that too. It wasn't really a bother for him anyways, he was hotter, very literally.
Wait. Dan Heng under blankets. Ohh. Dan Heng must have been sleeping this whole time. While trying as much as he could to not make voices and somehow managing it, Caelus walked to Dan Heng and sat on the bed, next to Dan Heng's head if he had to specify.
And. Woah. Dan Heng looked even more beautiful when he was sleeping.
He means, Dan Heng is already pretty beautiful, but seeing him so relaxed somehow managed to add points of beautifulness to infinity.
When the tension from his all awake moments were gone, all left was a face that could finally relax. His face looked much softer, his hair messy. He could hear his calm breaths and see his chest rising up and down, could see how some of his hair felt on his nose.
And, he could not help himself. He slowly reached out and brushed out that hair from his face. His hair was so soft, it was almost unrealistic. Dan Heng didn't spend too much time on bathing and stuff so it must be natural.
He was not waiting for Dan Heng to lean to his hand as he was admiring Dan Heng's hair. Caelus was pretty sure he didn't even touch Dan Heng's head for more than 2 seconds, but apparently it was enough for Dan Heng to feel it. So, Caelus had an idea.
Caelus started petting Dan Heng.
Just like he thought, Dan Heng immediately started leaning more and more into Caelus's hand. If Caelus closed his eyes it would feel just like when you give a sad touchstarved stray kitten a small pet. Leaning into that hand with all the touchstarvedness.
But, his first surprise; a sudden deep voice came from nowhere, making Caelus jump slightly.
It was getting louder and louder until it reached where it could be heard in the whole room. As he listened more, he realized what it was. Deeper than it should be that it’d make people scared, yes, but calmfull when you listen enough. And as he looked at the sleeping man under his hand, he put two and two together.
His second surprise, Dan Heng was purring.
Dan Heng and purr. Humans did not purr, he does remember that. But Dan Heng did. And it was so calmfull, so relaxed one that he was sure it was calmest he saw Dan Heng in. Dan Heng liked headpets, liked enough to literally purr.
In the end, he just smiles and continued petting. As long as Dan Heng was happy.
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It took Dan Heng a good half an hour to finally woke up.
He felt, strange. He was too calm, his mind kinda clouded. He was almost sure he got drugged and kidnapped in his sleep until he saw that beautiful man next to him.
“Gmorning sleepyhead! It's half past seven now, but you were really sleeping so pretty to even think of waking up.”
Dan Heng slowly sat up, blinking a few times to get the sleepiness away. As his sleepiness go away, he started feeling another thing. His purring. He was purring, and in front of Caelus.
As his hand went up to check if he was actually purring –and realizing that in fact yes he was still purring loudly–, Caelus chuckled.
“So, uh, I was fixing your hair after I decided to check what you were doing and saw you asleep, you kinda leaned to my hand. So I started petting your head. Thats all. And- I won't tell anyone this if you wanted, don't worry!!”
He did not really cared if the Express learned he got petted in his sleep, if he had to be honest, but it was not same with purring. Purring was inhuman, he still did not wanted to reveal he is not that much human, even if they are the closest things he had
“Please do not tell. I would rather not let people learn I can purr, especially March.”
As he looked at those golden eyes, Dan Heng smiled a bit.
“And thank you, I feel better now, actually. It was a nice sleep."