Though Mary being sat at the foot of the bed rather than the side did afford some additional room between them, it made it no easier for Sephiroth to avoid looking directly at her. Given how he was sat up, facing forwards, it was only too natural to have his bright eyes keep meeting her face, even as he forced them to look down and away as she spoke.
Simple truth. Bitter in the fact that she did indeed have him figured out enough to accurately call it. There were reasons why Vincent had remained a constant vigil nearby even though he had been the perpetrator to Sephiroth's newest injury. To attempt to mitigate the scolding that, if no one else delivered it, his own consciousness screamed along the back of every hint of the uncomfortable aching in his shoulder that he now felt.
It was driven deeper, given more of an edge as Mary told it alongside a question Sephiroth would not have expected. He blinked in response, a little taken aback at both her keen perception of how things were with him, and how transparent he had to have been in order for her to see it. Again that weakness that the closeness to another person seemed to have festered in him.
"It's only the same weight that every single person here bears within themselves. I just seem to have misplaced the strength that I once had-" A noticeable break in his voice caused Sephiroth to pause and look away again, steeling himself again raw emotions that were still not quite settled back.
Re: Sept 13
Simple truth. Bitter in the fact that she did indeed have him figured out enough to accurately call it. There were reasons why Vincent had remained a constant vigil nearby even though he had been the perpetrator to Sephiroth's newest injury. To attempt to mitigate the scolding that, if no one else delivered it, his own consciousness screamed along the back of every hint of the uncomfortable aching in his shoulder that he now felt.
It was driven deeper, given more of an edge as Mary told it alongside a question Sephiroth would not have expected. He blinked in response, a little taken aback at both her keen perception of how things were with him, and how transparent he had to have been in order for her to see it. Again that weakness that the closeness to another person seemed to have festered in him.
"It's only the same weight that every single person here bears within themselves. I just seem to have misplaced the strength that I once had-" A noticeable break in his voice caused Sephiroth to pause and look away again, steeling himself again raw emotions that were still not quite settled back.
"-to hold it up, somehow."