[ It's as if he doesn't even hear her demand for details, either too lost in thought, or... Maybe he's stubbornly withholding until she asks more politely? Probably a bit of both.
He doesn't look convinced in the least by her explanation though, staring back at her with a hardened expression the way he does when he's glaring down a lying witness at the stand. He has no way of proving she did anything other than as she says, but...]
...If that's really all you did, it doesn't seem to be doing the trick any longer. [He rubs his forehead, grimacing with the strain of thought after days of high stress and running himself ragged with rescues in Venera.] As I said, we were together, at the Lodestone under the sea, recovering from a fight. But while we were there he got the news that... That Miss Himeka and Father Abel...
[He glances away, fighting to keep from being overcome with grief, and guilt. He has no idea if she even knows who he's referring to, when he says those names... Actually, he rather doubts she does, if her aversion to exchanging names is indeed universal to the other Pleroma. But he's going to use their names anyway, and she'll just have to deal with it as far as he's concerned. They're supposed to be working together to survive; if she wants to know what's going on, she should learn who they all are.]
...They've been captured. By the Regent's forces. Estinien was furious, understandably so, but... He flew off... That was a day ago, and this is the first I've seen him since.
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Really? That's all?
[ It's as if he doesn't even hear her demand for details, either too lost in thought, or... Maybe he's stubbornly withholding until she asks more politely? Probably a bit of both.
He doesn't look convinced in the least by her explanation though, staring back at her with a hardened expression the way he does when he's glaring down a lying witness at the stand. He has no way of proving she did anything other than as she says, but...]
...If that's really all you did, it doesn't seem to be doing the trick any longer. [He rubs his forehead, grimacing with the strain of thought after days of high stress and running himself ragged with rescues in Venera.] As I said, we were together, at the Lodestone under the sea, recovering from a fight. But while we were there he got the news that... That Miss Himeka and Father Abel...
[He glances away, fighting to keep from being overcome with grief, and guilt. He has no idea if she even knows who he's referring to, when he says those names... Actually, he rather doubts she does, if her aversion to exchanging names is indeed universal to the other Pleroma. But he's going to use their names anyway, and she'll just have to deal with it as far as he's concerned. They're supposed to be working together to survive; if she wants to know what's going on, she should learn who they all are.]
...They've been captured. By the Regent's forces. Estinien was furious, understandably so, but... He flew off... That was a day ago, and this is the first I've seen him since.