[It's... touching she'd put him first, but X shakes his head.]
Ciel... I'm not the only one distressed by it.
[His chuckle's short, aborted and dry. He's unfortunately used to Zero vanishing, in a way, but that doesn't make it easy to accept. Still, it's a fact: Zero's gone, and X can manage. He's learned, in the past, how to. But Ciel? Ciel is young, she's not used to this--not yet, anyway, and he knows just from how she reacts to the news, how she pushes herself aside, that she feels similarly to him. The problem is that she doesn't have any of that preparation.
But blocking herself out doesn't change the reality.]
It's alright to be... out of sorts.
[He's not going to make her pull herself up. Not unless she decides she's flooding the house with dejected bubbles, anyway.]
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Date: 2017-04-12 08:47 am (UTC)From:Ciel... I'm not the only one distressed by it.
[His chuckle's short, aborted and dry. He's unfortunately used to Zero vanishing, in a way, but that doesn't make it easy to accept. Still, it's a fact: Zero's gone, and X can manage. He's learned, in the past, how to. But Ciel? Ciel is young, she's not used to this--not yet, anyway, and he knows just from how she reacts to the news, how she pushes herself aside, that she feels similarly to him. The problem is that she doesn't have any of that preparation.
But blocking herself out doesn't change the reality.]
It's alright to be... out of sorts.
[He's not going to make her pull herself up. Not unless she decides she's flooding the house with dejected bubbles, anyway.]