[ There's a lot he managed (or was forced) to let go of (at least for a while), but the harmonica was the one thing that he couldn't get rid of, even when he shed everything else that made him feel human. The last remnant of my human heart, he'd called it when he gave it to Estelle. I won't be needing it anymore.
Except he'd been horribly wrong about that, and she'd just chased him across Zemuria to give it back to him and tell him that he was being an idiot who was just afraid to admit that he still had feelings.
Which she was completely right about. ]
I'm not sure if "peaceful" is quite the word for it, but...
[ He's not sure what else he'd go with, either. It - stirs things up, down below the surface of his emotional lake, but despite the fact that it gives him feelings (which are the very definition of not peaceful, for someone as bad with them as he is), it's always been the thing he goes to when he's feeling uncertain. ]
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Except he'd been horribly wrong about that, and she'd just chased him across Zemuria to give it back to him and tell him that he was being an idiot who was just afraid to admit that he still had feelings.
Which she was completely right about. ]
I'm not sure if "peaceful" is quite the word for it, but...
[ He's not sure what else he'd go with, either. It - stirs things up, down below the surface of his emotional lake, but despite the fact that it gives him feelings (which are the very definition of not peaceful, for someone as bad with them as he is), it's always been the thing he goes to when he's feeling uncertain. ]