[ Off-center as she is, Lightning can't help but want to apologize again at first... but then she really catches that- over a week: long enough for Hope to have lost track and for Aerith to answer unspecifically. For some reason, that's what grounds her. Not their assurances, but the thought that she was gone for too long and they were here without her.
And bizarrely, before she gets back to wondering about where her soul was for all that time and just how you were supposed to drag a Cie'th back to being human, she thinks: have they been feeding her dog the right amount? Has Hope been eating enough?
The sobering effect on her attitude is abrupt- when she answers there's a definite tinge of anger in her voice, and though at any other time and she'd probably be furious... it's a start. ]
Hurt? No. [ Her free hand goes to the altered Brand, ignoring the looks exchanged between the two in favor of putting on her own sour expression. ] If this is their doing--
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And bizarrely, before she gets back to wondering about where her soul was for all that time and just how you were supposed to drag a Cie'th back to being human, she thinks: have they been feeding her dog the right amount? Has Hope been eating enough?
The sobering effect on her attitude is abrupt- when she answers there's a definite tinge of anger in her voice, and though at any other time and she'd probably be furious... it's a start. ]
Hurt? No. [ Her free hand goes to the altered Brand, ignoring the looks exchanged between the two in favor of putting on her own sour expression. ] If this is their doing--