[It's a strange thing, carring his wonderful, frail, beautiful, fragile, perfect master like this. It hurts, digs up a centuries-old ache in his chest and ignites it anew... But it tamps it down and soothes it all the same. He knew so, so well the strength that was once in him, but he'd also known just as well how he'd faded away, how the strength had left him, how his own blade was too heavy a burden in the end.
But he wasn't a burden, now. He wasn't an inanimate soul bound up in steel and wood, but had a body of flesh and bone. He could help, now, where he ached to, then. Souji couldn't be less trouble. And there's a little bit of bitterness nagging in the back of his mind that he must be terrible for finding anything positive at all in the state of him, but that's a thing that won't be confronted, not now.
Not with Souji's head on his shoulder, or his hands in his...
Or with him beaming up at him, reaching for him, asking him to stay.
He flusters, a bit, at that. Doesn't take his hands, but instead drops another towel over Souji's head so he can't see him flush... though he's certain he'll see the sakura drifting about again once he peeks.]
I don't mind... [He doesn't mind, and he's tucking himself in next to Souji a moment later.]
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But he wasn't a burden, now. He wasn't an inanimate soul bound up in steel and wood, but had a body of flesh and bone. He could help, now, where he ached to, then. Souji couldn't be less trouble. And there's a little bit of bitterness nagging in the back of his mind that he must be terrible for finding anything positive at all in the state of him, but that's a thing that won't be confronted, not now.
Not with Souji's head on his shoulder, or his hands in his...
Or with him beaming up at him, reaching for him, asking him to stay.
He flusters, a bit, at that. Doesn't take his hands, but instead drops another towel over Souji's head so he can't see him flush... though he's certain he'll see the sakura drifting about again once he peeks.]
I don't mind... [He doesn't mind, and he's tucking himself in next to Souji a moment later.]