[ A part of him is already beginning to ponder a future in which he has given the reins over to another and left Ishgard so that he might travel alongside the woman he intends to marry. Would it be an adjustment? Of course. Will he miss his home greatly? Absolutely. But it will be worth all of the adjusting and feelings of being homesick if he can wake up every morning beside her and go to sleep next to her as well.
It is clear to him that they should not be parted, not for as long as they have been, and he thinks that not only for himself but now because it is apparent to him that she needs his support more than ever.
She has just begun explaining what she has seen, but the tone of her voice is enough to cause tension to form in his shoulders, and although doing so only causes a dull ache to form in his head, he does not have to have been there to be able to know how horrifying it must have been to see people turn in the way she's describing.
As she goes on, he has to will himself to remain still, to keep his shoulders... his entire frame from shaking. He might have been more contained had his defenses not taken so many hits over the last handful of days and weeks, but in the aftermath of everything, what she says shakes him more than he expected it would.
He does not wish for her to see that this has rattled him, and so he holds himself as still as he can, eyes still fixed upon hers. ]
I am so very sorry that you and your companions had to witness such things, but more than that, not to put it mildly, I am beyond troubled that people who have done little to deserve such a fate have had such things happen to them. And though I do not know all of their names, I would remember them alongside those whom we have lost.
[ Because in his mind, it does not matter if a person who has fallen is of Ishgard or Doma or any of the far-flung places that Alkaid has seen. A life is a life, and any loss of life is something that should not be pushed aside and forgotten.
In spite of his determination to appear impassive and unbothered, his shoulders drop as the weight of what she has told him sinks in. But he will not have her blame herself. He has not, nor will he, ask to be shielded from the harsh realities of the world. ]
I trust that you and the other Scions were able to find some resolution to the root cause of this problem. And more importantly, I imagine you would have told me as much if one of your number fell to these threats. [ Any loss at all is devastating. If one of the Scions fell, she surely would have told him. ] I know what you have told me about your physical wellbeing, and that of your sisters, but I trust that you did not experience any effects from your exposure to the light.
[ Because while it is her emotional state that troubles him, one cannot see to their emotional needs and ignore the physical, or the opposite. That is a lesson that he has had to learn of late. ]
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It is clear to him that they should not be parted, not for as long as they have been, and he thinks that not only for himself but now because it is apparent to him that she needs his support more than ever.
She has just begun explaining what she has seen, but the tone of her voice is enough to cause tension to form in his shoulders, and although doing so only causes a dull ache to form in his head, he does not have to have been there to be able to know how horrifying it must have been to see people turn in the way she's describing.
As she goes on, he has to will himself to remain still, to keep his shoulders... his entire frame from shaking. He might have been more contained had his defenses not taken so many hits over the last handful of days and weeks, but in the aftermath of everything, what she says shakes him more than he expected it would.
He does not wish for her to see that this has rattled him, and so he holds himself as still as he can, eyes still fixed upon hers. ]
I am so very sorry that you and your companions had to witness such things, but more than that, not to put it mildly, I am beyond troubled that people who have done little to deserve such a fate have had such things happen to them. And though I do not know all of their names, I would remember them alongside those whom we have lost.
[ Because in his mind, it does not matter if a person who has fallen is of Ishgard or Doma or any of the far-flung places that Alkaid has seen. A life is a life, and any loss of life is something that should not be pushed aside and forgotten.
In spite of his determination to appear impassive and unbothered, his shoulders drop as the weight of what she has told him sinks in. But he will not have her blame herself. He has not, nor will he, ask to be shielded from the harsh realities of the world. ]
I trust that you and the other Scions were able to find some resolution to the root cause of this problem. And more importantly, I imagine you would have told me as much if one of your number fell to these threats. [ Any loss at all is devastating. If one of the Scions fell, she surely would have told him. ] I know what you have told me about your physical wellbeing, and that of your sisters, but I trust that you did not experience any effects from your exposure to the light.
[ Because while it is her emotional state that troubles him, one cannot see to their emotional needs and ignore the physical, or the opposite. That is a lesson that he has had to learn of late. ]