“There was silence from behind the door, and then a hushed ‘sorry’ a few moments later, before fading footsteps were heard.” Noooo!
“Right now, he would like to have a word with the inventor of the English language, for including so many ‘s’s in it. No consideration of snakes at all, it seemed.” XD
The last line is really lovely! This is such a nice hurt/comfort fic :)