[ He makes a strangled noise at the simile, unsure of whether to be impressed or embarrassed by it.
Maybe it’s a little of both. He sure can’t dwell on it for long with how distracting Wriothesley is, because as it turns out, keeping him talking is turning out to be a terribly mortifying idea.
Is it still defeat?
The truth is that… ]
You’re so…tch…
[ Wriothesley smiles like them, too. Like Basilio in particular, but also the many others in Ferox who’d slapped him on the back a little too hard after a fight well-fought, even if it’s one they’ve lost, time and again. No harm done; they’ll just go back to partying while Lon’qu broods somewhere else, and deep down he…
He squeezes his eyes shut as he comes with a rather anticlimactic grunt and a shudder, his mind briefly turning to the memory of warmth in the snow, of finding a purpose other than wielding a blade, of forging a new life for himself, little by little.
Of finally meeting new people to care about, even when he’d been drafted into the Shepherds.
It isn’t so different here.
He’s still plenty embarrassed, though. ]
A—Apologies, I didn’t mean to finish when you were…
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Maybe it’s a little of both. He sure can’t dwell on it for long with how distracting Wriothesley is, because as it turns out, keeping him talking is turning out to be a terribly mortifying idea.
Is it still defeat?
The truth is that… ]
You’re so…tch…
[ Wriothesley smiles like them, too. Like Basilio in particular, but also the many others in Ferox who’d slapped him on the back a little too hard after a fight well-fought, even if it’s one they’ve lost, time and again. No harm done; they’ll just go back to partying while Lon’qu broods somewhere else, and deep down he…
He squeezes his eyes shut as he comes with a rather anticlimactic grunt and a shudder, his mind briefly turning to the memory of warmth in the snow, of finding a purpose other than wielding a blade, of forging a new life for himself, little by little.
Of finally meeting new people to care about, even when he’d been drafted into the Shepherds.
It isn’t so different here.
He’s still plenty embarrassed, though. ]
A—Apologies, I didn’t mean to finish when you were…