[ at first he is surprised but it's quickly turned to a laugh. ]
Really? [ he sounds amused. It will be okay, she will be fed now and he will get her all cleaned up as if she never had the physical reminders of the past week reminding her to begin with. He swings her a little, just enough to provide emphasis on what he is referring to as he continues. ]
You mean, in addition to the one I'm already holding?
[ of course, he will have to have a point later where the stress finally hits him, where all the pa ic and concern that he withheld during the crisis withers out of his system. It's a pathetic display of being relieved your deepest fears were not even close to true, and one he will show no one but Kojuro, but it is still relief and coping properly to keep going without losing any valid time by being weighed down by his internal conflicts. He did enough of that since joining ALASTAIR to last him a lifetime. All it did was bring more of its weight rather than create less. ]
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Really? [ he sounds amused. It will be okay, she will be fed now and he will get her all cleaned up as if she never had the physical reminders of the past week reminding her to begin with. He swings her a little, just enough to provide emphasis on what he is referring to as he continues. ]
You mean, in addition to the one I'm already holding?
[ of course, he will have to have a point later where the stress finally hits him, where all the pa ic and concern that he withheld during the crisis withers out of his system. It's a pathetic display of being relieved your deepest fears were not even close to true, and one he will show no one but Kojuro, but it is still relief and coping properly to keep going without losing any valid time by being weighed down by his internal conflicts. He did enough of that since joining ALASTAIR to last him a lifetime. All it did was bring more of its weight rather than create less. ]