She almost asks, but stops herself. It's hard to forget the rending look of frustration he gave her when she asked him last, what he wanted to do. So she puts her cup back down and mulls it over, and it's when he puts his hands above the table accompanied by his musings that it clicks for her.
Aions are shaped by self-perception.
Howl lost something they cannot quantify or identify, the week he was gone and couldn't attend the 'welcome party' for the second wave of Aions.
And now, he's performed "adequately".]
How did it make you feel? Carrying out orders with effort.
[She keeps her tone neutral, deceptively soft even, and lifts her head to look at him in the eyes properly. How he'll answer and his expression in doing so will be far more important than the state of his hands, there is no doubt in her mind.
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She almost asks, but stops herself. It's hard to forget the rending look of frustration he gave her when she asked him last, what he wanted to do. So she puts her cup back down and mulls it over, and it's when he puts his hands above the table accompanied by his musings that it clicks for her.
Aions are shaped by self-perception.
Howl lost something they cannot quantify or identify, the week he was gone and couldn't attend the 'welcome party' for the second wave of Aions.
And now, he's performed "adequately".]
How did it make you feel? Carrying out orders with effort.
[She keeps her tone neutral, deceptively soft even, and lifts her head to look at him in the eyes properly. How he'll answer and his expression in doing so will be far more important than the state of his hands, there is no doubt in her mind.
What piece of himself was taken from him...?]