"No one can hurt you now."
{⚔}—— No one can hurt you now. That sentence in itself made the feisty blonde pause in his tracks, just about ready to head out again for another mission, another assignment just to get a bit of work done on his end. Not classwork, field work like usual upon falling dead silent. Frozen, not moving, just... not even there almost as the words rang repeatedly through his mind given to him by his brother in arms and even someone he'd go as far as to say is his brother, King.Vulnerable, a state of mind that was rare save for when hit by nightmares of his new home perishing as fast as his old one. He couldn't even bring himself to talk, nothing, not a word would leave those tiers of his as ivory sunk into his lower one as if to hold himself back. Nobody told him this, the times he heard it was told to Cinque in an attempt to soothe her yet him? That's what made it all different.He wanted to cry, wanted to just call him stupid for telling him that when he knew that he felt safe there and yet the reassurance only served to make him unable to act. At least until he nodded, weakly in response then backing out of the room. Letting him sit there and wonder what just happened to him, why he didn't react in his usual way of just shrugging it off or telling him otherwise. Because it hit harder hearing him say it than someone else.It ain't worth... dwellin' on, fucks sake Nine, calm yer ass down an' don'cha dare fuckin' start cryin', yer stronger than back then!
