[ He calmly handles the bracelet, manipulating its metal with nothing more than his spiritual energy. He's not used to doing such things, so he needs to concentrate more than he would if this were a task done often, but it's a good focus. It tears his thoughts away from the explosion of grief that the reliving of that memory has brought right back to the forefront. Aside from a gloss to his black eyes, and the deliberate, steady way he breathes, it's hard to say he was even affected.
(He's affected. To the marrow of his bones, he's affected, but none of him leaps to blaming her. That pain wouldn't exist if it weren't for other people's choices, and her ability is just that: a memory, not a cause.) ]
You'd informed me of your abilities before. What just happened wasn't unexpected, just unpleasant. For both of us.
[ He won't talk about it unless she asks something, but he won't lay blame on her for what he knew might happen. Abilities like that are dangerous for various reasons, the unpredictability being part of it, but isn't that why he's here? Why he brought the damn inhibitor along? She doesn't deserve his anger. She deserves his understanding.
There. He examines what he's done with the inhibitor, looks at it from three different angles, then gives a small nod of his head and unclasps the mechanism, offering it out again. ]
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[ He calmly handles the bracelet, manipulating its metal with nothing more than his spiritual energy. He's not used to doing such things, so he needs to concentrate more than he would if this were a task done often, but it's a good focus. It tears his thoughts away from the explosion of grief that the reliving of that memory has brought right back to the forefront. Aside from a gloss to his black eyes, and the deliberate, steady way he breathes, it's hard to say he was even affected.
(He's affected. To the marrow of his bones, he's affected, but none of him leaps to blaming her. That pain wouldn't exist if it weren't for other people's choices, and her ability is just that: a memory, not a cause.) ]
You'd informed me of your abilities before. What just happened wasn't unexpected, just unpleasant. For both of us.
[ He won't talk about it unless she asks something, but he won't lay blame on her for what he knew might happen. Abilities like that are dangerous for various reasons, the unpredictability being part of it, but isn't that why he's here? Why he brought the damn inhibitor along? She doesn't deserve his anger. She deserves his understanding.
There. He examines what he's done with the inhibitor, looks at it from three different angles, then gives a small nod of his head and unclasps the mechanism, offering it out again. ]
This should be a better fit.