[Where are you, Ginia? Waver thinks as he feels her stiffen in his arms. Three seconds later he's being hugged back.
Both of them are fast on the draw when they need to be. That's true given his life Waver now understands and what he's inferred about hers. His eyes shade over saddened for a moment. It's a skill both of them still need - it's not like Waver could ever escape that as a shinki, because he needed to play the games Gods played, better than the Gods themselves. He didn't have the safety nets he does now. And everyone has to play the deception game here to some extent.
Honne and tatemae... is that what they fall into sometimes? Is that the right term for the masks they wear, especially here? (A concept Iskandar probably would recoil at, though for all the wearing his heart on his sleeve, it's a mask for the layers below). Or is it something else?]
You're my best friend. Anytime.
[Remember you're important to him, Ginia. Remember you're a person he'd want to protect.]
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Both of them are fast on the draw when they need to be. That's true given his life Waver now understands and what he's inferred about hers. His eyes shade over saddened for a moment. It's a skill both of them still need - it's not like Waver could ever escape that as a shinki, because he needed to play the games Gods played, better than the Gods themselves. He didn't have the safety nets he does now. And everyone has to play the deception game here to some extent.
Honne and tatemae... is that what they fall into sometimes? Is that the right term for the masks they wear, especially here? (A concept Iskandar probably would recoil at, though for all the wearing his heart on his sleeve, it's a mask for the layers below). Or is it something else?]
You're my best friend. Anytime.
[Remember you're important to him, Ginia. Remember you're a person he'd want to protect.]