Yeah, [ charles interjects, quick and pointed, ] You were, and I told you bloody well I didn't care about that.
[ he'd have stayed, right until the end, whatever that end might have been — and the only thing, the only thing he'd regretted was that he couldn't be there for him like he'd said he would.
"something pretty bad" is not an unreasonable assumption nor is it far off the mark, and yet charles' first reaction is a defensive, ] Oi, it wasn't his fault. He was... pretty in his head, too.
[ he sighs, then, running a hand through his hair, messing up the already messy curls even more. ] I... well, I didn't tell you the whole truth about ghosts, then. For obvious reasons. See, we can be hurt, by iron. It's... not pretty. Makes us tangible, too, corporeal in a way that other stuff can hit us proper. And a ghost can die if they feel enough pain, just — disintegrate, yeah?
[ somehow, he manages to say all this like he's imparting some general knowledge on ghosts, and yet the look he gives junpei then, a kind of quiet, wordless apology there in his eyes — it says it's more than general, it says sorry i didn't tell you, it says sorry for letting that happen and not coming back to you. ]
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[ he'd have stayed, right until the end, whatever that end might have been — and the only thing, the only thing he'd regretted was that he couldn't be there for him like he'd said he would.
"something pretty bad" is not an unreasonable assumption nor is it far off the mark, and yet charles' first reaction is a defensive, ] Oi, it wasn't his fault. He was... pretty in his head, too.
[ he sighs, then, running a hand through his hair, messing up the already messy curls even more. ] I... well, I didn't tell you the whole truth about ghosts, then. For obvious reasons. See, we can be hurt, by iron. It's... not pretty. Makes us tangible, too, corporeal in a way that other stuff can hit us proper. And a ghost can die if they feel enough pain, just — disintegrate, yeah?
[ somehow, he manages to say all this like he's imparting some general knowledge on ghosts, and yet the look he gives junpei then, a kind of quiet, wordless apology there in his eyes — it says it's more than general, it says sorry i didn't tell you, it says sorry for letting that happen and not coming back to you. ]