Something flickers in his features, almost like a passing shadow in his eyes. There's a slight twitch in his lips from where he might have been on the verge of reeling back to ask about that.
Japan, and everything that had happened in Japan with the Earl, the Akuma...
(It's all so after the fact, now, reduced to report after report, faded memories, and more of those things on the List of Things To Not Talk About. After the fact, and so long ago, and there's nothing he could have done about it then, and there's nothing that he can really do about it now, but God he wishes there was...)
Keep walking...
Perhaps the one good thing about alternate universes, then, is that there are some worlds that so many people had not died because of (pointless?) wars.
It just makes him sad that it can't be all worlds.
(But also a little happy, because it meant that there were at least some lucky worlds.)
... It's only a flicker, though, and he's meeting Lavi's gaze again with another smile.]
Home is where the heart is?
[Coming from a boy who.... Has rather mixed feelings of the concept.]
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Something flickers in his features, almost like a passing shadow in his eyes. There's a slight twitch in his lips from where he might have been on the verge of reeling back to ask about that.
Japan, and everything that had happened in Japan with the Earl, the Akuma...
(It's all so after the fact, now, reduced to report after report, faded memories, and more of those things on the List of Things To Not Talk About. After the fact, and so long ago, and there's nothing he could have done about it then, and there's nothing that he can really do about it now, but God he wishes there was...)
Keep walking...
Perhaps the one good thing about alternate universes, then, is that there are some worlds that so many people had not died because of (pointless?) wars.
It just makes him sad that it can't be all worlds.
(But also a little happy, because it meant that there were at least some lucky worlds.)
... It's only a flicker, though, and he's meeting Lavi's gaze again with another smile.]
Home is where the heart is?
[Coming from a boy who.... Has rather mixed feelings of the concept.]