windsilenced:
if this were land─solid, safe ground, with no risk of falling into the bottomless goddamn ocean─maybe he would have been interested in whatever seaweed bread was. as it were, the mere mention of food certainly didn’t do anything for him. his eyes shift from the bread; drifts anywhere else. not at the the water! don’t look there, you fool!
a shaky laugh rises, frei raises a hand to brush against the back of his neck. there’s an attempt to regain composure, but it’s difficult to maintain.
❝ i… don’t like water. is too much for me. you understand, yes? “
He took another bite while continuing to watch the other. What would Amy say if she were here? What would Chamber say? He paused at that last thought and then tried to push from his head when a surge of raw emotion rose up in him. Not that you’d be able to tell because his expression didn’t change at all.
“I...understand.” He said after some hesitation. Because he did. He still remembered the time his Yunburo had gotten trapped under some rubble and left him pinned down long enough that his tanks had almost run out of oxygen.
“There is a place where you will not see the ocean. Do you want to go there instead?”
