「☠」;; — There’s hesitance clearly written on his face and the way he carries himself as his amber eyes meet a recognizable pair of braided, silver pigtails held up with a set of simple white ribbons. Everything about her stature (poised yet stoic) screams ‘familiar’ and as much as he wants to go over and try to chat like normal, he knows he can’t.
Years of separation holds him back, held back by the strings of circumstance pinning it back to make it worse. No matter how relieved he feels when he finally comes across her (since he assumed she was dead somewhere), there was no way they could talk to each other like they were once before.
Hell, she might even hate him for all he knows.
So he sucks it up like a man and hides his feelings in hissleeve (out and away from the public eye), shoving a hand in his pocket as he walks over to her.
“Yo.” He’s quick to hide the tremor that threatens to make itself known, eyes slightly narrowed in a way that shows he’s not up to do anything except what he wants. “You got a minute?”