[ Must've struck a nerve. That look on Mira's face was unmistakable. Allow him to sympathize, then. ]
How about I pull the rest out of you? Everything you're hiding, all that you can't bear to reveal. Things you still don't understand about yourself. I'll go at it seriously with you until you hold nothing back.
[ Unashamedly, Tartaglia presents the offer. Empathy's a funny thing for him now. Earnestness never sounds quite right in his mouth anymore, so challenging and unsweet. But if it's all true— and he's willing to go the distance— then it's preposterous, entirely out of his scope. That alone is worth the bruises forming soft pink bracelets over his wrists that he's idly rubbing his fingertips over, struggling to visualize it: light that could burn all the way through him. ]
Trust me, it'll be fun! For now, just think it over.
[ Reaching the base of the mountain, Tartaglia spares a glance up at the sky, jewel-heavy and darkening under the setting sun. ]
I guess this is where we part ways. [ Pyra's waiting for him, and the rural farm he resides upon with her is quite a ways off still. ] Will you be alright on your own?
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How about I pull the rest out of you? Everything you're hiding, all that you can't bear to reveal. Things you still don't understand about yourself. I'll go at it seriously with you until you hold nothing back.
[ Unashamedly, Tartaglia presents the offer. Empathy's a funny thing for him now. Earnestness never sounds quite right in his mouth anymore, so challenging and unsweet. But if it's all true— and he's willing to go the distance— then it's preposterous, entirely out of his scope. That alone is worth the bruises forming soft pink bracelets over his wrists that he's idly rubbing his fingertips over, struggling to visualize it: light that could burn all the way through him. ]
Trust me, it'll be fun! For now, just think it over.
[ Reaching the base of the mountain, Tartaglia spares a glance up at the sky, jewel-heavy and darkening under the setting sun. ]
I guess this is where we part ways. [ Pyra's waiting for him, and the rural farm he resides upon with her is quite a ways off still. ] Will you be alright on your own?