[ oh. well, that answers that question. there's a little ping of startled, at first - it's not like he hasn't heard of similar before. he saw marcoh and neverah both all those weeks ago, which had been jarring beyond belief, but... this is the first time he's heard his own name, and it's a strange feeling.
more or less, he can put together what happened at the end - what goes unsaid says a lot, and he falls quiet, brows knit together, letting fidelio's experience reflect back onto him for a long, thoughtful pause. those feelings of complication, the absolute misery of shadowheart and anders, and...
when he speaks again, it's soft, looking not at fidelio but at the bed as he chooses his words. ]
I think that these... adventures are so often designed to be impossible for anyone to succeed entirely. They are designed to hit us where it hurts the most, no matter where that is, or how they achieve it - physically, mentally, and otherwise.
[ beyond the partial success of the mission, there's a weight implied in what he says. he knows that it must have hurt him, even if he can't quite put his finger on exactly why, beyond the image of a firefight in an evacuating building, and bodies on the floor.
... ]
... Though it does not surprise me... thank you, for trying to keep me safe. [ some version of him, anyway, and it's followed with a gentle squeeze of his hand, as he sets his gaze back on del. ] A different person may have just run away, especially if they knew that we may not be ourselves, at all, but rather some illusion.
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more or less, he can put together what happened at the end - what goes unsaid says a lot, and he falls quiet, brows knit together, letting fidelio's experience reflect back onto him for a long, thoughtful pause. those feelings of complication, the absolute misery of shadowheart and anders, and...
when he speaks again, it's soft, looking not at fidelio but at the bed as he chooses his words. ]
I think that these... adventures are so often designed to be impossible for anyone to succeed entirely. They are designed to hit us where it hurts the most, no matter where that is, or how they achieve it - physically, mentally, and otherwise.
[ beyond the partial success of the mission, there's a weight implied in what he says. he knows that it must have hurt him, even if he can't quite put his finger on exactly why, beyond the image of a firefight in an evacuating building, and bodies on the floor.
... ]
... Though it does not surprise me... thank you, for trying to keep me safe. [ some version of him, anyway, and it's followed with a gentle squeeze of his hand, as he sets his gaze back on del. ] A different person may have just run away, especially if they knew that we may not be ourselves, at all, but rather some illusion.