[ His words register. Really, they do. But it's the look that Ayato gives him that's downright palpable. And he can feel it digging and rooting in his chest. Ayato had gone with Kaveh that day...and if Cloud continued fighting alone on most of his quests, his stubborn resolve to not let anyone else get hurt was going to do exactly that. It was going to hurt Ayaka. It was going to leave her alone.
...would it also hurt the man that he sits with now? That thought would make his heart sink too. And for the moment, Cloud's eyes drift, downtrodden.
Maybe it wasn't just a thing with Ayaka— how they'd always joke about being able to read one anothers' minds. Perhaps it was a Kamisato thing. ]
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...would it also hurt the man that he sits with now? That thought would make his heart sink too. And for the moment, Cloud's eyes drift, downtrodden.
Maybe it wasn't just a thing with Ayaka— how they'd always joke about being able to read one anothers' minds. Perhaps it was a Kamisato thing. ]
Maybe I should.