His chest tightened and thoughts stirred. …if you would just say something… they went, but so what if he did? After whatever had exactly transpired the night before, there was just—too much of an overtone. Too much risk of things only being taken a certain way. And the thought of broaching the conversation to clarify everything? Made Aoba squirm uncomfortably.
If Declan said he was happy, Aoba believed him, but it only gave him more to question. Declan couldn’t be wrong, but Aoba didn’t feel worth it. What had he even done?
Especially on the scale of everything that had happened to the world, what had he even done?
“I’m glad,” he said again, trying not to lapse into silence of his own. “Someone like you deserves all the happiness he can get.” And then he suddenly wondered, looking over, even glancing at Ghost for a few moments as well.
Drawing upon Declan’s certainty for the future, rather than his own doubts, he asked, “When you’ve driven back the Darkness…and the world gets to go back to the way it was…what happens to the Guardians?”
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His chest tightened and thoughts stirred. …if you would just say something… they went, but so what if he did? After whatever had exactly transpired the night before, there was just—too much of an overtone. Too much risk of things only being taken a certain way. And the thought of broaching the conversation to clarify everything? Made Aoba squirm uncomfortably.
If Declan said he was happy, Aoba believed him, but it only gave him more to question. Declan couldn’t be wrong, but Aoba didn’t feel worth it. What had he even done?
Especially on the scale of everything that had happened to the world, what had he even done?
“I’m glad,” he said again, trying not to lapse into silence of his own. “Someone like you deserves all the happiness he can get.” And then he suddenly wondered, looking over, even glancing at Ghost for a few moments as well.
Drawing upon Declan’s certainty for the future, rather than his own doubts, he asked, “When you’ve driven back the Darkness…and the world gets to go back to the way it was…what happens to the Guardians?”