Frankly, I don't know what I really did to earn his affections, other than it must have been the right thing to do.
[they had just...drifted closer, bound by the suffering around them and the reliability of the other. she had promised, had dug her heels in, that she would still be there. that his loyalty wasn't misplaced. and somehow it had done enough - turned his face to hers, when she's only a woman whose life is steeped in sorrow and her own blood. granted a heart almost too tender for the man who it belonged to, and she shielded it with her own. it was a priceless gift.
there's a hint in her tone, one Ryouma might notice from his own deflections. someone who doesn't entirely know if they deserve what they have but trying to not discredit it.]
But I don't blame you for being curious about someone else important to him. I wondered about you, after all, when he first mentioned you - it was clear enough you're irreplaceable. And then I got the fortune to meet you.
you're not stupid!
[they had just...drifted closer, bound by the suffering around them and the reliability of the other. she had promised, had dug her heels in, that she would still be there. that his loyalty wasn't misplaced. and somehow it had done enough - turned his face to hers, when she's only a woman whose life is steeped in sorrow and her own blood. granted a heart almost too tender for the man who it belonged to, and she shielded it with her own. it was a priceless gift.
there's a hint in her tone, one Ryouma might notice from his own deflections. someone who doesn't entirely know if they deserve what they have but trying to not discredit it.]
But I don't blame you for being curious about someone else important to him. I wondered about you, after all, when he first mentioned you - it was clear enough you're irreplaceable. And then I got the fortune to meet you.