[It helps, taking the sore edge off the forced sensations washing over the both of them, and he holds her as if he could protect her from it.
Soon enough, though, the tide of regret-ridden sensation washes back up, tightening in the centre of his chest and pushing intrusive thoughts back into his mind. There's so much that he doesn't want to consider, and it's as if there's some underlying knowledge of where to direct the guilt as his thoughts turn to her and all the things he hasn't said.
Things he hasn't been thinking of as important, but knows she'd want to know about.]
There's something I haven't told you. [He mutters, turning his head to lightly rest his chin atop hers.] ... About what's going to happen to me in my future.
[She knows by now that he has awareness of things that he shouldn't. Through the presence of an older Noctis, and Hadriel's own events... He has never made much issue of it, but he shifts back slightly to look at her as he pulls in a breath that faintly shakes on the last moment of the inhale.
Doesn't she at least deserve to know, so that she might know what's on his mind in those moments where she speaks to him and he seems a million miles away?]
Should I leave here... Within a few days of my return to Eos, I'll be blind.
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Date: 2018-05-03 09:02 pm (UTC)Soon enough, though, the tide of regret-ridden sensation washes back up, tightening in the centre of his chest and pushing intrusive thoughts back into his mind. There's so much that he doesn't want to consider, and it's as if there's some underlying knowledge of where to direct the guilt as his thoughts turn to her and all the things he hasn't said.
Things he hasn't been thinking of as important, but knows she'd want to know about.]
There's something I haven't told you. [He mutters, turning his head to lightly rest his chin atop hers.] ... About what's going to happen to me in my future.
[She knows by now that he has awareness of things that he shouldn't. Through the presence of an older Noctis, and Hadriel's own events... He has never made much issue of it, but he shifts back slightly to look at her as he pulls in a breath that faintly shakes on the last moment of the inhale.
Doesn't she at least deserve to know, so that she might know what's on his mind in those moments where she speaks to him and he seems a million miles away?]
Should I leave here... Within a few days of my return to Eos, I'll be blind.