[The look Tenma receives in return is one of deliberate blankness. A reminder. Not even a question--So?--but a fact: They don't.]
[A fact, more or less. There is a wing off the main hall of his mind that was never there before. If he isn't careful and turns in there, he discovers that perhaps this is untrue. They do, or they might; or at least the feeling is comparable to caring for one person, pouring all of his concern, meager as it is, into the nest.]
[He looks out at the emptiness. It smells like flowers--not roses, but wildflowers. It makes him obliquely, distantly homesick.]
Wherever you go, you are always the most reliable man around.
[This is wholly genuine and not at all a taunt, which is probably worse than if it were. He turns back to Tenma with a smile, leaving the question of figure-ground reversal in the dust for the moment.]
We can go, then. Since it's important to you--lead, and I'll follow.
no subject
[The look Tenma receives in return is one of deliberate blankness. A reminder. Not even a question--So?--but a fact: They don't.]
[A fact, more or less. There is a wing off the main hall of his mind that was never there before. If he isn't careful and turns in there, he discovers that perhaps this is untrue. They do, or they might; or at least the feeling is comparable to caring for one person, pouring all of his concern, meager as it is, into the nest.]
[He looks out at the emptiness. It smells like flowers--not roses, but wildflowers. It makes him obliquely, distantly homesick.]
Wherever you go, you are always the most reliable man around.
[This is wholly genuine and not at all a taunt, which is probably worse than if it were. He turns back to Tenma with a smile, leaving the question of figure-ground reversal in the dust for the moment.]
We can go, then. Since it's important to you--lead, and I'll follow.