If people are sad when they see you, that's not your fault.
[In his case, it was his fault. He knows that damn well, and he'll own it... to anyone who's not as young as this.]
And you aren't.
[For all that he'd called Akira exactly that in the past, or... close enough. Why can't you just get out of my way, more than once. The frustration at - so much of what made him Akira.
But Akira had just stood there and took it whenever he'd vocalised any of that, and then he'd been gone, and this Akira was just a kid. "Not the Akira you're thinking of" was a relief in so many ways, but still... even so.
He gets himself sat upright, properly, and holds out a hand. Lavenza flutters off the kid's head and over onto his shoulder, and he awkwardly pats small Akira's head, pointedly ignoring the heartsickness that gives him.]
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[In his case, it was his fault. He knows that damn well, and he'll own it... to anyone who's not as young as this.]
And you aren't.
[For all that he'd called Akira exactly that in the past, or... close enough. Why can't you just get out of my way, more than once. The frustration at - so much of what made him Akira.
But Akira had just stood there and took it whenever he'd vocalised any of that, and then he'd been gone, and this Akira was just a kid. "Not the Akira you're thinking of" was a relief in so many ways, but still... even so.
He gets himself sat upright, properly, and holds out a hand. Lavenza flutters off the kid's head and over onto his shoulder, and he awkwardly pats small Akira's head, pointedly ignoring the heartsickness that gives him.]