[ none of this makes any sense - but it isn't as though much has ever since the Blight has begun worsening. luckily, this isn't the first 'time pocket' Vash has encountered, though the other had been in Highstorm and a much different sort of manipulation of his surroundings. it hadn't seemed any less personal for the man trapped within it, revisiting an emotional and cruelly manipulative scene that was stuck in repeat.
...this is wrong.
still, right or wrong - he's beginning to put the pieces together, especially as he feels the ripples of grief radiating from Dimitri in a space he doesn't yet recognize as their shared Aspect of the Advocate. it hurts, just looking at him - seeing something lost in his eye, something that tugs right deep down in Vash's chest. even as he tries to comfort the boy... maybe he wonders if part of him shouldn't be comforting Dimitri himself, too.
...yes, it's slowly coming together. ]
That's right. You're safe, and we'll figure this out. [ those words are for both boy and man. ] We won't leave you 'til we find him.
[ so he offers a hand toward the child, his smile coaxing and kind, if also softly apologetic.
he doesn't know how he knows. he doesn't understand how Dimitri's pain seems alive in his chest right now - but he has a feeling this boy... he isn't going to find his father alive, is he. ]
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...this is wrong.
still, right or wrong - he's beginning to put the pieces together, especially as he feels the ripples of grief radiating from Dimitri in a space he doesn't yet recognize as their shared Aspect of the Advocate. it hurts, just looking at him - seeing something lost in his eye, something that tugs right deep down in Vash's chest. even as he tries to comfort the boy... maybe he wonders if part of him shouldn't be comforting Dimitri himself, too.
...yes, it's slowly coming together. ]
That's right. You're safe, and we'll figure this out. [ those words are for both boy and man. ] We won't leave you 'til we find him.
[ so he offers a hand toward the child, his smile coaxing and kind, if also softly apologetic.
he doesn't know how he knows. he doesn't understand how Dimitri's pain seems alive in his chest right now - but he has a feeling this boy... he isn't going to find his father alive, is he. ]