[He's unaccustomed to it-- people displaying even the smallest signs of wanting to subject themselves to his company, and yet she'd asked him to dance that first time they met despite his surly attitude, had expressed concern for him when they'd first become fugitives regardless of having her own safety to worry about. Small things, perhaps, normal things, but they stand out sharp when one has only ever known duty and disdain.
There's that sick sinking feeling in him, a bright point of pain behind the ribs and it irritates him, has his own self-hatred flashing hot behind his eyes because he shouldn't care what she chooses to do with herself, and yet he finds that he does. She likes it here, she says, and it's just one more thing he can't comprehend because to him this place is abhorrent and strange (frightening), what with the way nature encroaches so clearly on something that's supposed to be man-made. It's a world away from the concrete world of no natural light that he'd always known and so it only makes him feel unsettled and small and afraid.
He turns away from her. Tries to view their surroundings with her eyes. Can't.]
I see.
[His voice is cool and clipped, devoid of discernible feeling. He doesn't see at all.]
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There's that sick sinking feeling in him, a bright point of pain behind the ribs and it irritates him, has his own self-hatred flashing hot behind his eyes because he shouldn't care what she chooses to do with herself, and yet he finds that he does. She likes it here, she says, and it's just one more thing he can't comprehend because to him this place is abhorrent and strange (frightening), what with the way nature encroaches so clearly on something that's supposed to be man-made. It's a world away from the concrete world of no natural light that he'd always known and so it only makes him feel unsettled and small and afraid.
He turns away from her. Tries to view their surroundings with her eyes. Can't.]
I see.
[His voice is cool and clipped, devoid of discernible feeling. He doesn't see at all.]