[ He sobers a little at that. It's a touchy subject, he knows. Didn't broach it with Nathan really, not because they weren't in the business of talking about intimate or serious issues - as it turns out for some fucking bizarre reason that's the only kind of conversation they're capable of having. He genuinely, genuinely cannot explain it. It makes no goddamn sense, it's so far out of his norm and his comfort zone it's like being on fucking Jupiter.
But he imagines it would be the same for Nathan as it is for Kyna. Hollow, he thinks. Leaving a space in her that she can't fill herself yet, because she's built an identity and a sense of self-worth around it.
To be fair, he imagines if someone just robbed him of his entire engineering skill he'd feel the same. Adrift, incapable, unable to find peace in times of high stress.
He settles back, wrapping an arm around her shoulders and pulling her in against him. His tone comes across as light, easy, even if the gesture could be seen as solemn. ]
Tell me about your magic. I remember what you could do, what you told me before... tell me the rest.
[ Because maybe it's time to just listen for a while instead of trying to convince her over and over to accept it and recognize her worth in other ways. He'll still do that, he'll do that later, he'll swear by it, but...
no subject
But he imagines it would be the same for Nathan as it is for Kyna. Hollow, he thinks. Leaving a space in her that she can't fill herself yet, because she's built an identity and a sense of self-worth around it.
To be fair, he imagines if someone just robbed him of his entire engineering skill he'd feel the same. Adrift, incapable, unable to find peace in times of high stress.
He settles back, wrapping an arm around her shoulders and pulling her in against him. His tone comes across as light, easy, even if the gesture could be seen as solemn. ]
Tell me about your magic. I remember what you could do, what you told me before... tell me the rest.
[ Because maybe it's time to just listen for a while instead of trying to convince her over and over to accept it and recognize her worth in other ways. He'll still do that, he'll do that later, he'll swear by it, but...
Sometimes you need this and not that. ]