His reaction time may have been slowed back to average, but Benjiro weathers most of the shifting while his focus remains on keeping the shot aligned to focus on Sadie. The video will not be clean and steady, nor will it be a blurry mess.

A soft snicker escapes as she proclaims her new ability to the phone, and he laughs softly with amusement as she announces an intent to seek revenge, “Wait, what?” Watching her on the screen of the phone, fixated still on his task of recording, he moves the phone more out to the side to catch a lateral shot only to realize she’s now face to face with him. His dark eyes turn as he looks straight at her, eyes wide and brows raised in surprise as his breath catches in his chest.

Phone left in its position, the device captures the instant she kisses him on the nose. That lick of icing he had earlier isn’t enough to override his reaction as his entire face flushes to a vibrant shade of red and he stiffens from head to toe with their foreheads together.



“Hnnnh?” is all he utters in those first seconds after before he slides from his elbow and flops flat in the sand with his phone following to record the sky instead.