[Kaidan wants to say, "actually, it's none of your business." what comes out instead is:]
His eyes, mostly. The way the light went out of them, right when I hit him. Like he didn't even have the chance to realize he'd lost before he was dead, it was over so quickly.
[he stares right back into Cloud's unsettlingly intense and forbidding eyes, up until he realizes that's what he's doing, then uncomfortably clears his throat and looks aside while chafing a hand against his jaw.] Um. Sorry, I don't know why I said--[a short, stilted wave of his hand,] any of that. Hell I don't even talk to my dad about what happened at Brain Camp and he's career military.
[his voice tapers off, and he looks around the empty city surrounding them, his expression as wary as it is curious.] What is wrong with this place?
sorry about the wait!
His eyes, mostly. The way the light went out of them, right when I hit him. Like he didn't even have the chance to realize he'd lost before he was dead, it was over so quickly.
[he stares right back into Cloud's unsettlingly intense and forbidding eyes, up until he realizes that's what he's doing, then uncomfortably clears his throat and looks aside while chafing a hand against his jaw.] Um. Sorry, I don't know why I said--[a short, stilted wave of his hand,] any of that. Hell I don't even talk to my dad about what happened at Brain Camp and he's career military.
[his voice tapers off, and he looks around the empty city surrounding them, his expression as wary as it is curious.] What is wrong with this place?