there's a blink, hikaru left stunned as the stranger seemed to have begun to pat his head .. and then moved his hair instead.
he stands there with his mouth open, looking up at the other.
He nods as he reaches out to fix a strand of hair of theirs that fell astray; eyes soft. “Um— yeah. I was looking for the um..”
And this is where he fails. He’s bad at words. Poor kid just wants directions to a library.