"How so? Were you expecting me to be a gentle person?"
He assumed she meant his admittance that he had no great interest in whether she lived or died. If Landel's experiment resulted in her demise, he wouldn't cry for her, and that made it easy to look at her position objectively. Only natural if that coldness surprised her.
But as he looked at her from beneath his lashes, he thought perhaps he had surprised her in a different way. Aigis seemed almost... reassured by his actions.
Why? His brow furrowed faintly.
She was a strange person. To feel so strongly over the existences of others but doubting the value of her own. A being that felt fear, that felt pain, that could shed tears... that was life, surely, no matter what the body was made out of. But then that was the same sort of existential argument that plagued vampires and humans, for if a vampire could feel then he was certainly just as alive as any human. The same had to apply to Aigis.
"We could harp on those topics for a long while yet," he observed aloud. It steadied him, letting his feelings settle back down and reason take their place. "Though I dare say someone that has as much to fear as you is alive."
Maybe it comforted her to think otherwise, during this uncertain period. He couldn't say. She seemed to worry about strange things and take comfort in even stranger--which, at the moment, appeared to be his poor choice of words. If it had been Aidou in her place, he didn't think his first response would be to reach out to the other person, but he didn't try to stop her. He'd done it first, after all, and she allowed his touch readily enough.
After a beat, he retracted a hand in order to snag her wrist before she could move away. Even as he turned her hand over so that it was facing palm up, he was considering her suggestion. Yes, Sasuke was running late if he hadn't arrived in the hallway yet; a glance at the corridor told him as much. That was Aidou's problem to figure out, however, not Aigis'. Hadn't she already implied as much?
"What happened to searching for a cure?" he asked, looking up from her hand. "Up until now, you gave the impression you had plans."
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He assumed she meant his admittance that he had no great interest in whether she lived or died. If Landel's experiment resulted in her demise, he wouldn't cry for her, and that made it easy to look at her position objectively. Only natural if that coldness surprised her.
But as he looked at her from beneath his lashes, he thought perhaps he had surprised her in a different way. Aigis seemed almost... reassured by his actions.
Why? His brow furrowed faintly.
She was a strange person. To feel so strongly over the existences of others but doubting the value of her own. A being that felt fear, that felt pain, that could shed tears... that was life, surely, no matter what the body was made out of. But then that was the same sort of existential argument that plagued vampires and humans, for if a vampire could feel then he was certainly just as alive as any human. The same had to apply to Aigis.
"We could harp on those topics for a long while yet," he observed aloud. It steadied him, letting his feelings settle back down and reason take their place. "Though I dare say someone that has as much to fear as you is alive."
Maybe it comforted her to think otherwise, during this uncertain period. He couldn't say. She seemed to worry about strange things and take comfort in even stranger--which, at the moment, appeared to be his poor choice of words. If it had been Aidou in her place, he didn't think his first response would be to reach out to the other person, but he didn't try to stop her. He'd done it first, after all, and she allowed his touch readily enough.
After a beat, he retracted a hand in order to snag her wrist before she could move away. Even as he turned her hand over so that it was facing palm up, he was considering her suggestion. Yes, Sasuke was running late if he hadn't arrived in the hallway yet; a glance at the corridor told him as much. That was Aidou's problem to figure out, however, not Aigis'. Hadn't she already implied as much?
"What happened to searching for a cure?" he asked, looking up from her hand. "Up until now, you gave the impression you had plans."