If there was one thing that the last week or so had proven to him, since Starlight, it was the growing realization that they had indeed become very close; closer than he'd ever thought to intend to become when he took it upon himself to be her guardian. Even that term wasn't all too accurate anymore considering the days, seldom stretched into a week at a time, that he spent away from her. Still Sephiroth felt almost beholden to her to the point where he wasn't sure how he'd managed beforehand.

The most concerning part was that it had developed that way, without any conscious thought on his side.

It was most enthralling, though, to watch her reaction to his -almost embarrassingly- broken words and Sephiroth's smile stretched a little further under the pressure from her own. Meeting eye contact with her almost made his own eyes shine from the raw sense of happiness present there; how it was possible for him to inspire such a feeling? He tilted his head a little down towards her as he spotted wetness at the corners of her eyes.

"There is no reason for it not to be okay?" The only thing he could think of would be if one of Terra's friends either didn't want them to be the way that they were falling together, or were jealous or something. He raised a hand and rested it on the top of Terra's shoulder, offering a squeeze of a reassurance. "This isn't something I'm used to, but I'm trying not to think about it too much."