Humanity was such a strange thing. Emotions and hormones ruled a body, warring with the logic of the mind and the instincts of the gut. Heat and blood rushed to different areas of the face and torso when stimuli overrode neutral masks. Aigis could never understand it all in just the little time she had been given to adjust to the body. It wasn't her fault she was this way. It was the an unfortunate fact of the matter.
She looked up when he started talking again. The tears were still making their way down her cheeks but she had stopped sobbing, they were only silent tears. She sniffed once and then, perhaps for the first time, really listened to what Aidou had to say. She still felt she misunderstood much of what he might be trying to get across, but she was starting to realize one very important thing. She had been treating him like a creature fully inhuman. In a sense, he still was, but that did not mean that he didn't have feelings and emotions all his own. The culture was different but the reasoning was there, and that meant that she had to approach this differently.
She had approached him like a non-human before. Now she had to approach him like a human, but one who she could not make snap judgments about. She took a deep breath, but her voice remained hoarse if controlled. "I... believe I am finally beginning to understand, Aidou-san. Forgive me for my previous insensitivity."
She bowed at the waist to augment her apology. When she straightened up she gazed at him with the same sincerity she generally held, but perhaps this time there was a bit more of a light of understanding in her eyes. Even Koromaru she had treated like a comrade back home. He hadn't been a pet, so how could she treat Aidou as such?
"I understand this was foolhardy and dangerous, but I would like to ask you one more time if you could please at least consider drinking from me tonight." She raised a hand to delay him from sneering at her request too quickly, her eyes begging a further moment of indulgence. "I am not asking this to keep you here as a pet, but I would ask that you at least leave off hunting tonight and just take what I have to offer this time around. I... will not interfere afterwards, I promise this. I still wish I could have found a way to sustain you and leave the other patients with their blood intact but I have obviously not thought this through enough."
She nodded her head, another small apology. "I really should have not demanded to come up with a solution myself. I should have... asked you your opinion on the matter."
Aigis took another breath, then put the Evoker in her pocket and placed a free hand against her chest earnestly. "I still have confidence I will not die tonight, even if I were to lose more blood than I should. I would like to show you why I have such confidence after, if you would permit, Aidou-san."
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She looked up when he started talking again. The tears were still making their way down her cheeks but she had stopped sobbing, they were only silent tears. She sniffed once and then, perhaps for the first time, really listened to what Aidou had to say. She still felt she misunderstood much of what he might be trying to get across, but she was starting to realize one very important thing. She had been treating him like a creature fully inhuman. In a sense, he still was, but that did not mean that he didn't have feelings and emotions all his own. The culture was different but the reasoning was there, and that meant that she had to approach this differently.
She had approached him like a non-human before. Now she had to approach him like a human, but one who she could not make snap judgments about. She took a deep breath, but her voice remained hoarse if controlled. "I... believe I am finally beginning to understand, Aidou-san. Forgive me for my previous insensitivity."
She bowed at the waist to augment her apology. When she straightened up she gazed at him with the same sincerity she generally held, but perhaps this time there was a bit more of a light of understanding in her eyes. Even Koromaru she had treated like a comrade back home. He hadn't been a pet, so how could she treat Aidou as such?
"I understand this was foolhardy and dangerous, but I would like to ask you one more time if you could please at least consider drinking from me tonight." She raised a hand to delay him from sneering at her request too quickly, her eyes begging a further moment of indulgence. "I am not asking this to keep you here as a pet, but I would ask that you at least leave off hunting tonight and just take what I have to offer this time around. I... will not interfere afterwards, I promise this. I still wish I could have found a way to sustain you and leave the other patients with their blood intact but I have obviously not thought this through enough."
She nodded her head, another small apology. "I really should have not demanded to come up with a solution myself. I should have... asked you your opinion on the matter."
Aigis took another breath, then put the Evoker in her pocket and placed a free hand against her chest earnestly. "I still have confidence I will not die tonight, even if I were to lose more blood than I should. I would like to show you why I have such confidence after, if you would permit, Aidou-san."