[The layered meaning behind her words is clear to him as the warnings he spoke to the Hosts. He understood her attitude towards it, even if he doesn't share it. One of them had to see it as she did, one of them had to be steeled enough for it to be something they could speak easily of, and it was not him. He had taken the responsibility himself before, when there was no other option, and every time weighed on him. He wouldn't wish it not to, but he knew he could not accomplish what she could and still be useful. And still serve the purpose he had set himself to.
So he cannot even bring himself to feel disgusted for it, for her, not anymore. The hand between them a clear and obvious offer. His eyes flick down to it, the gentle sliding ring of the charms at her wrist, and then back up for her words, flush fading from his neck and ears even as the fingers at his side twitched lightly in her direction.
But he doesn't reach out. The hesitation lasts just long enough for him to feel her attention falls away in slivers, re-directed here and there, the loss of her clear and present straightening his spine and stilling his hand. A simple thing to resist with her gone.
Even so, her words were true, he would do what he could to see she followed the gentler path, though there was no guarantee]
Still, I do not like to see it. In any case, there is work to be done. If you will excuse me.
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So he cannot even bring himself to feel disgusted for it, for her, not anymore. The hand between them a clear and obvious offer. His eyes flick down to it, the gentle sliding ring of the charms at her wrist, and then back up for her words, flush fading from his neck and ears even as the fingers at his side twitched lightly in her direction.
But he doesn't reach out. The hesitation lasts just long enough for him to feel her attention falls away in slivers, re-directed here and there, the loss of her clear and present straightening his spine and stilling his hand. A simple thing to resist with her gone.
Even so, her words were true, he would do what he could to see she followed the gentler path, though there was no guarantee]
Still, I do not like to see it. In any case, there is work to be done. If you will excuse me.