[L's built delicately, more of a fey thread than a grounding rod, but his slender-fingered touch is sincere and concerned. If it centers Myr, it's for the best and, more importantly, not impossible, even given L's particularly strange and stunted tendencies.]
Please don't apologize.
[L tends, always, toward formality. Sometimes it's odd and even comical.]
I can see that it's the case...
[As a human lie detector, even without the use of magic, L has little doubt that what he's witnessing is wholly and harrowingly genuine. It stirs something in him that is both a relief, for being alive, and a discouraging embarrassment for the sort of man who would rather be a machine.]
Not ever...
[He knows, deep down in his darkest crushing core, that Myr only says so because he does not know L. "Linden" is a construct, and a shallow one at that. There's so much more lying under the facade even after what L has let slip through the mask he wears. If people can care for Linden, people like Myr, who should be able to see through it, well...
Either Myr is too stupid to see through it, or under the flimsy construct, the person L is someone worth caring about. L's not sure which one sounds more absurd.]
...thank you. I'm happy to help this way. I'll listen...
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Please don't apologize.
[L tends, always, toward formality. Sometimes it's odd and even comical.]
I can see that it's the case...
[As a human lie detector, even without the use of magic, L has little doubt that what he's witnessing is wholly and harrowingly genuine. It stirs something in him that is both a relief, for being alive, and a discouraging embarrassment for the sort of man who would rather be a machine.]
Not ever...
[He knows, deep down in his darkest crushing core, that Myr only says so because he does not know L. "Linden" is a construct, and a shallow one at that. There's so much more lying under the facade even after what L has let slip through the mask he wears. If people can care for Linden, people like Myr, who should be able to see through it, well...
Either Myr is too stupid to see through it, or under the flimsy construct, the person L is someone worth caring about. L's not sure which one sounds more absurd.]
...thank you. I'm happy to help this way. I'll listen...
[It's good, to be useful for awhile.]