[ He wishes to make that clear, lest she think he has no qualms about leaving. He cannot quite put his finger on what is troubling him, but an unsettled feeling has settled about him like a cloak, and he feels that if he leaves, when he returns, it might not be in the same way that he left. And that is assuming that he returns at all.
This may only be a training period, but there still is some element of danger to it, and that is what gives him pause.
At her next words, the look in his eyes shifts as if an older look of his own has just slid into place. ]
I know. [ His tone is quiet, but his regret is clear enough. He knows that something happened in a past life that tore them apart, and now it is all too clear just what that was. ]
It will be different this time. [ He has to come home this time, whatever it takes. ] I will come home. [ I must. ]
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[ He wishes to make that clear, lest she think he has no qualms about leaving. He cannot quite put his finger on what is troubling him, but an unsettled feeling has settled about him like a cloak, and he feels that if he leaves, when he returns, it might not be in the same way that he left. And that is assuming that he returns at all.
This may only be a training period, but there still is some element of danger to it, and that is what gives him pause.
At her next words, the look in his eyes shifts as if an older look of his own has just slid into place. ]
I know. [ His tone is quiet, but his regret is clear enough. He knows that something happened in a past life that tore them apart, and now it is all too clear just what that was. ]
It will be different this time. [ He has to come home this time, whatever it takes. ] I will come home. [ I must. ]