[ For a moment, despite the chaos that rages around them, all he can do is stare at the two figures shimmering nearby, their mere presence enough to cause his heart to squeeze painfully. How long as it been since he's seen them last? Too long and at the same time not even remotely long enough, because the destruction of their worlds means the only place they exist now is within the confines of his memory. (And even that will be lost soon enough, the usage of his Sand enough to extinguish those last traces for awhile.)
The thud of an arrow embedding itself into flesh snaps his attention back to the fight at hand, his muscles instinctively moving forward once again, this time towards where his gun lies on the ground. There's still a battle left to finish and an opponent left to be eliminated, though as he grabs his gun and lifts it back up to where Gray Alter still stands, his heart gives a different kind of squeeze. It isn't actually Gray he's pointing at, but the connection between his mind and heart has always been more volatile than he'd like to admit, and it's hard to completely sever the lingering fear that he might be aiming at the one of the most important people in life.
In the end, it's not enough to stop him from firing, a single shot to mirror the path of OG Gray's arrow. ]
apparently i needed a week to sleep on this
The thud of an arrow embedding itself into flesh snaps his attention back to the fight at hand, his muscles instinctively moving forward once again, this time towards where his gun lies on the ground. There's still a battle left to finish and an opponent left to be eliminated, though as he grabs his gun and lifts it back up to where Gray Alter still stands, his heart gives a different kind of squeeze. It isn't actually Gray he's pointing at, but the connection between his mind and heart has always been more volatile than he'd like to admit, and it's hard to completely sever the lingering fear that he might be aiming at the one of the most important people in life.
In the end, it's not enough to stop him from firing, a single shot to mirror the path of OG Gray's arrow. ]