In that moment she could knock him over with a feather, so struck is he by that. Breath held and sitting up just a little too straight, pale grey eyes widened as if that's something he's never heard because...
...he hasn't?
Because honestly while he may hold tight to the importance of Mana's curse, even if he wouldn't call it a gift in so few words, it's not something anyone else has ever even remotely considered... well, considered something they didn't hate, find repulsive, horrifying and sympathetic over--or at best just useful. Even his comrades. Lavi envied him only until he realized it was like seeing hell on Earth and a nauseating thing to bear, and Lenalee... even if she might understand him she hated his eye. And he could understand why. Of course he could.
But to smile and take his hand and say it might not be such a curse, because it meant being able to see the good in something so many only see as evil... ]
...
[ ..Rare are the moments Allen Walker notices such things (you could count them on one hand probably), but in that moment, smiling like that and speaking so gently of something most think terrible... in that moment--
...she's beautiful.
And he blinks quite rapidly for a moment before he remembers to breath and his eyes cross a bit for a moment before refocusing on her. ]
Lux.. [ It's said quietly in an awestruck exhale. A quick-flutter, eyes sketching her face in nervous flicks of surprise and still just barely drawing a thin breath. Like when she'd said before she wanted to be at his side on his path. The not quite daring to believe almost-fragility of it.
Especially as he's suddenly become quite conscious of the fact he should stay rooted right where he is for a moment.
But really--what can he say to that? Does she know how important that is? It's not her world and she's never seen an akuma, but even so, knowing what she does know and still saying that...?
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"Isn't that, in some ways, a gift?"
Lux...
In that moment she could knock him over with a feather, so struck is he by that. Breath held and sitting up just a little too straight, pale grey eyes widened as if that's something he's never heard because...
...he hasn't?
Because honestly while he may hold tight to the importance of Mana's curse, even if he wouldn't call it a gift in so few words, it's not something anyone else has ever even remotely considered... well, considered something they didn't hate, find repulsive, horrifying and sympathetic over--or at best just useful. Even his comrades. Lavi envied him only until he realized it was like seeing hell on Earth and a nauseating thing to bear, and Lenalee... even if she might understand him she hated his eye. And he could understand why. Of course he could.
But to smile and take his hand and say it might not be such a curse, because it meant being able to see the good in something so many only see as evil... ]
...
[ ..Rare are the moments Allen Walker notices such things (you could count them on one hand probably), but in that moment, smiling like that and speaking so gently of something most think terrible... in that moment--
...she's beautiful.
And he blinks quite rapidly for a moment before he remembers to breath and his eyes cross a bit for a moment before refocusing on her. ]
Lux.. [ It's said quietly in an awestruck exhale. A quick-flutter, eyes sketching her face in nervous flicks of surprise and still just barely drawing a thin breath. Like when she'd said before she wanted to be at his side on his path. The not quite daring to believe almost-fragility of it.
Especially as he's suddenly become quite conscious of the fact he should stay rooted right where he is for a moment.
But really--what can he say to that? Does she know how important that is? It's not her world and she's never seen an akuma, but even so, knowing what she does know and still saying that...?
( Thank you. ) ]