So are you. Unless a hospital bed was the best accommodation they could do. Not very swanky for a princess.
[He gently retracts his hand, putting it back by his side where it can't become the focus of the present where they'd very nearly lost two people of far more value. If the prince hadn't tamed Leviathan, if rescue had been any slower reaching Lunafreya...
The injuries he'd sustained from Drautos and the Old Wall are nothing in comparison. Old news. Nyx's gaze sweeps the room as if judging the amenities in Altissia and finding them lacking, light humor still branding the deflection for what it is. The best defense is a good offense. Cornering off that cold, dread feeling eating away at his gut keeps him from wincing when his gaze settles on her again, drawn to each bruise and cut visible on exposed skin. (She's pale. Too pale.)]
Hey, no tears, all right? You're alive, His Highness is alive, we're all alive. That's all that matters. [And now that he's talking it feels like he needs to fill in the silence that threatens to fall in the spaces between his words, so he forges ahead, grasps at what comes to mind.] Libertus is here. I knew I should have punched him harder for not following you outside the city like he was supposed to.
scoops you into my arms and spins you
[He gently retracts his hand, putting it back by his side where it can't become the focus of the present where they'd very nearly lost two people of far more value. If the prince hadn't tamed Leviathan, if rescue had been any slower reaching Lunafreya...
The injuries he'd sustained from Drautos and the Old Wall are nothing in comparison. Old news. Nyx's gaze sweeps the room as if judging the amenities in Altissia and finding them lacking, light humor still branding the deflection for what it is. The best defense is a good offense. Cornering off that cold, dread feeling eating away at his gut keeps him from wincing when his gaze settles on her again, drawn to each bruise and cut visible on exposed skin. (She's pale. Too pale.)]
Hey, no tears, all right? You're alive, His Highness is alive, we're all alive. That's all that matters. [And now that he's talking it feels like he needs to fill in the silence that threatens to fall in the spaces between his words, so he forges ahead, grasps at what comes to mind.] Libertus is here. I knew I should have punched him harder for not following you outside the city like he was supposed to.