The rougher parts of his hand, mostly across the ridge of his palm and a little along the edge before his thumb almost didn't feel right as it was holding against Terra's. Sephiroth had never had such a problem with callouses and hardening skin before he'd come to Crystallis but he knew well enough that it was a consequence of living his life here; skin didn't regenerate at mako-enhanced levels, and considering how much manual work he'd put in -in one way or another- it seemed to make sense. He flexed fingers within hers as they intertwined as much as was physically possible.
It felt like he would be able to cling his entire self-confidence onto the way their hands were held together and, given the unexpected confidence he was sensing from Terra in her support it took a great deal of willpower not to simply buckle and just let her to help...it felt natural, strangely, to do so.
"Right." A shallower breath was taken as finally the extreme hotness behind his eyes began to cool off. It left behind it a deep sense of embarrassment; Sephiroth felt ashamed to have broken like that at all...much more so that he'd been present in anyone's company. That it had been Terra added a sting to it as well. How could she ever see him as the strong one now?
"I don't mind...to try." Sephiroth seemed to shudder with the thought of reaching out, even just tentatively doing so to form not only a new, truer type of friendship but to have with it a level of trust that he had taken great steps to lock so deeply away inside himself.
He blinked, looking away from Terra and down at the floor again; stuck oddly somewhere between ashamed and hopeful...it was a strange combination that just wouldn't settle down within him. Sephiroth felt almost uncomfortably warm and a little tingly still in the wake of his outburst.
"Did he ever tell you...what had happened before?"
Clearly, it seemed that the first step had to be reconciling some of the heavy demons that caused Sephiroth to be so cautious with other people and their notions of friendship and trust.
Also non-looper; Flower Shop/end of her day
It felt like he would be able to cling his entire self-confidence onto the way their hands were held together and, given the unexpected confidence he was sensing from Terra in her support it took a great deal of willpower not to simply buckle and just let her to help...it felt natural, strangely, to do so.
"Right." A shallower breath was taken as finally the extreme hotness behind his eyes began to cool off. It left behind it a deep sense of embarrassment; Sephiroth felt ashamed to have broken like that at all...much more so that he'd been present in anyone's company. That it had been Terra added a sting to it as well. How could she ever see him as the strong one now?
"I don't mind...to try." Sephiroth seemed to shudder with the thought of reaching out, even just tentatively doing so to form not only a new, truer type of friendship but to have with it a level of trust that he had taken great steps to lock so deeply away inside himself.
He blinked, looking away from Terra and down at the floor again; stuck oddly somewhere between ashamed and hopeful...it was a strange combination that just wouldn't settle down within him. Sephiroth felt almost uncomfortably warm and a little tingly still in the wake of his outburst.
"Did he ever tell you...what had happened before?"
Clearly, it seemed that the first step had to be reconciling some of the heavy demons that caused Sephiroth to be so cautious with other people and their notions of friendship and trust.