"It is not... itself, if you might imagine that. Even so much as speaking seems to bring difficulty― after whatever that happened to you occurred, just waking up in the morning seems to exhaust it entirely."
Saying it so frankly pains her rather visibly; the normally welcome eye-contact she finds with L is replaced with a kind of distance, finding comfort in instead looking out the nearby window. "I have done my best to cheer it through helping it maintain its appearances by my own hand― shaving and the like― but it brings little comfort, so it seems."
Adeline folds her hands in her lap, a purging sigh loosening some of the forlorn air she had taken on. Now, she can look at him― now she can smile, recomposing herself with usual ease after a momentary blip in her appearances.
"―there's no need to thank me," Adeline insists, smiling― softening. "but it means a great deal from you, and from your Bonded."
L is not the kind to make a habit of thanking others; the SQUIP does so often, and she can't fathom the difference, but something in how it thanked her just days prior felt incredibly different. Naivete causes her to attribute it to simple contrast. Neither of them are easy to read in any scope, even for someone as seasoned as she might be, but she can grasp the offered earnestness.
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Saying it so frankly pains her rather visibly; the normally welcome eye-contact she finds with L is replaced with a kind of distance, finding comfort in instead looking out the nearby window. "I have done my best to cheer it through helping it maintain its appearances by my own hand― shaving and the like― but it brings little comfort, so it seems."
Adeline folds her hands in her lap, a purging sigh loosening some of the forlorn air she had taken on. Now, she can look at him― now she can smile, recomposing herself with usual ease after a momentary blip in her appearances.
"―there's no need to thank me," Adeline insists, smiling― softening. "but it means a great deal from you, and from your Bonded."
L is not the kind to make a habit of thanking others; the SQUIP does so often, and she can't fathom the difference, but something in how it thanked her just days prior felt incredibly different. Naivete causes her to attribute it to simple contrast. Neither of them are easy to read in any scope, even for someone as seasoned as she might be, but she can grasp the offered earnestness.