There was a beat, but in that moment several things had begun to cross Lion's mind.
...So it really was true that Battler hadn't remembered-- no, known her was the correct term to use here. He nearly began to ask who she was, hadn't he? That on top of their exchange on the bulletin... It was an outcome she had dreaded a little to face, but the truth was Lion knew she should have expected it. This place had brought others in from all sorts of universes, with time and placement being as unpredictable as a fly's direction; that's how Lion was beginning to understand it, at any rate. And so, naturally, Battler had come from a universe, Fragment-- whatever they may be called-- that was not hers.
The only one Lion existed in.
Of all the thousands upon thousands of these universes Rokkenjima's tale and the Ushiromiya family's glory were present in, there was only one small chance in all of that would Battler had come out knowing Lion has a fellow family member. Surely, it would have taken a miracle for their meeting right now to have the opposite outcome-- one so small that Lion couldn't stay crushed for long that it didn't happen. Of course, she was disappointed-- a familiar face who couldn't even recall you just wasn't the same-- but at the very least she couldn't say she was surprised at all.
"Very well," Lion responded, as contently as if this were like any other meeting on a normal day. But Battler seemed troubled, she could tell, simply by the expression on his face; it was nothing like his usual cheery and confident disposition that he held that she had been familiar with. Not that it was too surprising; a supposed stranger just approached him, after all, and his question from the day prior still rung clear in her mind-- had anyone remembered him when he didn't for them?
Lion sat down on a small chair across from him, intertwining hands in her lap; even now she still retained her regal posture with nothing casual about it. And then, another short pause, but before Battler had any chance of speaking up, she continued on, "I take it you might feel a little shamed that you can't remember me, correct? It's fine, I don't feel insulted. The truth is, I suppose the only simple way to put this is that you've yet to meet me at all."
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...So it really was true that Battler hadn't remembered-- no, known her was the correct term to use here. He nearly began to ask who she was, hadn't he? That on top of their exchange on the bulletin... It was an outcome she had dreaded a little to face, but the truth was Lion knew she should have expected it. This place had brought others in from all sorts of universes, with time and placement being as unpredictable as a fly's direction; that's how Lion was beginning to understand it, at any rate. And so, naturally, Battler had come from a universe, Fragment-- whatever they may be called-- that was not hers.
The only one Lion existed in.
Of all the thousands upon thousands of these universes Rokkenjima's tale and the Ushiromiya family's glory were present in, there was only one small chance in all of that would Battler had come out knowing Lion has a fellow family member. Surely, it would have taken a miracle for their meeting right now to have the opposite outcome-- one so small that Lion couldn't stay crushed for long that it didn't happen. Of course, she was disappointed-- a familiar face who couldn't even recall you just wasn't the same-- but at the very least she couldn't say she was surprised at all.
"Very well," Lion responded, as contently as if this were like any other meeting on a normal day. But Battler seemed troubled, she could tell, simply by the expression on his face; it was nothing like his usual cheery and confident disposition that he held that she had been familiar with. Not that it was too surprising; a supposed stranger just approached him, after all, and his question from the day prior still rung clear in her mind-- had anyone remembered him when he didn't for them?
Lion sat down on a small chair across from him, intertwining hands in her lap; even now she still retained her regal posture with nothing casual about it. And then, another short pause, but before Battler had any chance of speaking up, she continued on, "I take it you might feel a little shamed that you can't remember me, correct? It's fine, I don't feel insulted. The truth is, I suppose the only simple way to put this is that you've yet to meet me at all."