[L fully expects it to be a meeting that is excruciating, and perhaps that's why he's determined. There's a masochistic sense that if it is difficult or painful, he deserves it, because it was all on his account that the SQUIP descended and was stricken down, wasn't it?]
Perhaps it needs its Bonded.
[He's frustrated, too. He understands what she's trying to help them with, even as he's impatient, even as he resents it.]
Is it really so fragile, at this time?
[Because in spite of being the last one to wake and mend, the physically weakest of everyone involved in the SQUIP's Bond sphere, L is strangely determined to prove that he himself is not frail.]
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Perhaps it needs its Bonded.
[He's frustrated, too. He understands what she's trying to help them with, even as he's impatient, even as he resents it.]
Is it really so fragile, at this time?
[Because in spite of being the last one to wake and mend, the physically weakest of everyone involved in the SQUIP's Bond sphere, L is strangely determined to prove that he himself is not frail.]
My constitution is not easily upset.