Ensuring the safety of the people is a duty I hold with pride.
[But he only gets this much honesty thanks to Edmond's "clever" wording.
[As it is, he lets the contact linger. So long as Eiden behaves, he decides, he'll let the sorcerer hug him as long as he wants. This time. Just this once.
[It... feels good, honestly. This platonic intimacy. Subtly, he feels a familiar stirring, but it's so mild that he doesn't really pay it much mind. He's just happy that Eiden isn't groping him.]
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[But he only gets this much honesty thanks to Edmond's "clever" wording.
[As it is, he lets the contact linger. So long as Eiden behaves, he decides, he'll let the sorcerer hug him as long as he wants. This time. Just this once.
[It... feels good, honestly. This platonic intimacy. Subtly, he feels a familiar stirring, but it's so mild that he doesn't really pay it much mind. He's just happy that Eiden isn't groping him.]
I refuse to let something like "death" stop me.