[Alhaitham stills. It's not a sentiment people tend to use when talking about him. To be lucky to know him. People so rarely want to, and he so rarely gives them the chance. Even with the spread of what he'd call positive connections, it's more accurate to say that they get what they get when it comes to Alhaitham.
His hand draws up and his arm folds across the back of Tsuruno's shoulders to tug her into a stiff side hug.] You're important to me, too.
[And that says everything and not enough, in the face of it all. That he doesn't want to have to kill her, but he will, but he'll put his time and resources into preventing it if he can. That he'll be here, and Tsuruno only needs to ask.]
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His hand draws up and his arm folds across the back of Tsuruno's shoulders to tug her into a stiff side hug.] You're important to me, too.
[And that says everything and not enough, in the face of it all. That he doesn't want to have to kill her, but he will, but he'll put his time and resources into preventing it if he can. That he'll be here, and Tsuruno only needs to ask.]