[ He understands, really he does, Allen's need to ask and to know, and though he cannot wholly fathom what it must be like, to be so aware that one has lost something without ever truly knowing it, how could he not wish to aid the younger man? How could he not offer his compassion, his smile to a friend swiftly met and shortly departed? No, Allen could never spoil his mood—Sion is humbled and he is glad, as he once had been, to stand at the side of someone who, so very much like him, would do all that they could to save another—and so... his sigh is light, gently sloping his shoulders, his hands clasped behind his back as the coastal wind picks up the long, white locks of his hair. ]
We fought at one another's side, that day, and after... there was a lull, a peacetime which fell upon the Capital with the coming of spring as the snow melted. We were given summons, then, by the Commander and Secretary of State, and granted passage to the location of our duty upon an airship more magnificent than anything I've glimpsed before in my life.
[ Looking to the sky above, he pictures it there, uses the sense of wonder and awe the craft had instilled in him to further spin his tale, making the recounting seem more like the great adventure he'd once promised to speak of before. And he does seem to have a talent for this, speaking, his voice measured with practice and with grace, growing more pleasing to the ears as he continues on: ]
On board, there were spas boasting baths of milk, training facilities and those practiced in the art of fighting in three dimensions, and... [ Canting his head, he meets Allen's eyes with a side-long glance, his own lashes lowered to half-mast. ] ...a casino, though when you board the airship next, I should caution that you not try the 'pai'.
[ But ah, he does digress. ]
Our destination, at that time, was a temple of old, a dungeon which had been harmful to the land and all those dwelling near. We did not share the same assignment, you and I, however I had faith that we would be reunited shortly after the trial we were to face.
[ … ]
And here we are, it only took a little while longer than I had expected.
[ He laughs, airy and light, with a shake of his head, thinking on how quickly so very much had happened; how he had been brave enough to reach out, only to have that bond, that connection severed from him.
And now... now it is again within his grasp, offered by someone he knows to be impossibly kind, and he is stalling, perhaps hesitant.
(Really, he's being much too silly.) ]
You were present here for but a single month, vanished for another, and now are returned again. I do not know what manner of magic it was that caused such a thing to happen, but rest assured, I intend to find the answer.
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[ He understands, really he does, Allen's need to ask and to know, and though he cannot wholly fathom what it must be like, to be so aware that one has lost something without ever truly knowing it, how could he not wish to aid the younger man? How could he not offer his compassion, his smile to a friend swiftly met and shortly departed? No, Allen could never spoil his mood—Sion is humbled and he is glad, as he once had been, to stand at the side of someone who, so very much like him, would do all that they could to save another—and so... his sigh is light, gently sloping his shoulders, his hands clasped behind his back as the coastal wind picks up the long, white locks of his hair. ]
We fought at one another's side, that day, and after... there was a lull, a peacetime which fell upon the Capital with the coming of spring as the snow melted. We were given summons, then, by the Commander and Secretary of State, and granted passage to the location of our duty upon an airship more magnificent than anything I've glimpsed before in my life.
[ Looking to the sky above, he pictures it there, uses the sense of wonder and awe the craft had instilled in him to further spin his tale, making the recounting seem more like the great adventure he'd once promised to speak of before. And he does seem to have a talent for this, speaking, his voice measured with practice and with grace, growing more pleasing to the ears as he continues on: ]
On board, there were spas boasting baths of milk, training facilities and those practiced in the art of fighting in three dimensions, and... [ Canting his head, he meets Allen's eyes with a side-long glance, his own lashes lowered to half-mast. ] ...a casino, though when you board the airship next, I should caution that you not try the 'pai'.
[ But ah, he does digress. ]
Our destination, at that time, was a temple of old, a dungeon which had been harmful to the land and all those dwelling near. We did not share the same assignment, you and I, however I had faith that we would be reunited shortly after the trial we were to face.
[ … ]
And here we are, it only took a little while longer than I had expected.
[ He laughs, airy and light, with a shake of his head, thinking on how quickly so very much had happened; how he had been brave enough to reach out, only to have that bond, that connection severed from him.
And now... now it is again within his grasp, offered by someone he knows to be impossibly kind, and he is stalling, perhaps hesitant.
(Really, he's being much too silly.) ]
You were present here for but a single month, vanished for another, and now are returned again. I do not know what manner of magic it was that caused such a thing to happen, but rest assured, I intend to find the answer.