Oh…so he was. Aoba considered this, chuffing softly.
“Well, yeah, of course,” he conceded, even if he was half looking for Ghost to give him a guilty and/or knowing look at the same time. “But there’s a difference between talking to someone, and just talking at them. It’s not anything that really affects me personally, if that helps? I’m just…thinking about where the world has wound up and what it’s done to—the people in it.”
Which included Declan, naturally, but Aoba verbally sidestepped away from singling him out. Every Guardian was affected, even if it was Declan specifically that had prompted all of Aoba’s brooding. But that risked more embarrassment if he phrased it that way, and private balcony or not, it wasn’t as intimate a setting as the apartment or the cockpit where there was absolutely no chance of anyone but them being around. Even if he wasn’t fully cognizant of it, Aoba was more self-conscious out in the open.
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“Well, yeah, of course,” he conceded, even if he was half looking for Ghost to give him a guilty and/or knowing look at the same time. “But there’s a difference between talking to someone, and just talking at them. It’s not anything that really affects me personally, if that helps? I’m just…thinking about where the world has wound up and what it’s done to—the people in it.”
Which included Declan, naturally, but Aoba verbally sidestepped away from singling him out. Every Guardian was affected, even if it was Declan specifically that had prompted all of Aoba’s brooding. But that risked more embarrassment if he phrased it that way, and private balcony or not, it wasn’t as intimate a setting as the apartment or the cockpit where there was absolutely no chance of anyone but them being around. Even if he wasn’t fully cognizant of it, Aoba was more self-conscious out in the open.