[ His gaze flickers, following her hand as it snatches up the towel, and there's a plunging feeling in his stomach. Right. Even when he's trying to distract her, they can't get too far away from it. ]
You'd be right. I...tried talking to Noct once before, when I was still...you know. [ Plumpto. ] Tried and failed miserably, but it turns out he actually remembered me from that day, when we became friends.
[ He closes his eyes a moment, lost in memory, of sunny days walking the streets of Insomnia with Noctis, when the worst things they had to worry about were tests and girls and homework, and he feels a bit of a nostalgic ache for those halcyon days. But as for the journey life had taken him on, to get him to the point he is now...
It's all so very different, still a transplant in a foreign world, lying next to the girl he loves as she's wracked with a plague, and Noct is gone, for now. He'd had more than enough to keep him busy since his friends went back into stasis, and so he hasn't quite...fully wrestled with that beast yet. But even if it was some time before he got to talk to his beloved friend again, telling this story has helped him remember something.
That Noct isn't gone, so long as Prompto carries these memories in his heart. ]
I didn't find that out until waaaay later, though, when we were taking Noct to get hitched to Luna. [ A wistful smile. ] Pretty crazy how we all got tangled up like that, huh?
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You'd be right. I...tried talking to Noct once before, when I was still...you know. [ Plumpto. ] Tried and failed miserably, but it turns out he actually remembered me from that day, when we became friends.
[ He closes his eyes a moment, lost in memory, of sunny days walking the streets of Insomnia with Noctis, when the worst things they had to worry about were tests and girls and homework, and he feels a bit of a nostalgic ache for those halcyon days. But as for the journey life had taken him on, to get him to the point he is now...
It's all so very different, still a transplant in a foreign world, lying next to the girl he loves as she's wracked with a plague, and Noct is gone, for now. He'd had more than enough to keep him busy since his friends went back into stasis, and so he hasn't quite...fully wrestled with that beast yet. But even if it was some time before he got to talk to his beloved friend again, telling this story has helped him remember something.
That Noct isn't gone, so long as Prompto carries these memories in his heart. ]
I didn't find that out until waaaay later, though, when we were taking Noct to get hitched to Luna. [ A wistful smile. ] Pretty crazy how we all got tangled up like that, huh?