[There's another look at Jack's first words. The joking reply to a topic agreed to be dropped like this, but he's not sure how to react to the thoughts it brings up. And so he only offers something of a smile in return as he looks somewhere else, listening.
Listening, and eventually looking again, because this is a strong argument from Jack, isn't it? An argument that doesn't just come from an opinion formed by watching. He's pretty certain in that.]
I know. [It takes so much of his own energy not to frown just yet, but he manages with a weak smile and a sigh of a laugh instead, shaking his head.] You had a sister, didn't you?
[Had... was it had? It's all he can think of.
But that's deflecting, and that's not fair, and so he relents shortly after.]
That's exactly how I want to look out for her. If she has my title, she'd be set for life. Money, power, freedom-- people wouldn't be able to look at her and see her as anything wrong or out of place.
[This just... This doesn't work without the context does it? And so there's a heavy pause, and Zelos looks away from Jack and to the other side of the clinic instead.]
She's my half sister. My father, the last chosen... He never loved my mother. It was an arranged marriage, so it was only natural that he'd have someone on the side. A half-elf. [...This was so hard to share. But thinking on it, Lloyd had told him he shared information like this with him in some... future. So. Maybe it's not as strange as he thinks.
But it still makes him pause with a tired, breathy sigh. This probably all sounds so stupid and dramatic.] I don't know... It's not exactly simple. But I'm not taking care of her now, so what difference does it make?
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Listening, and eventually looking again, because this is a strong argument from Jack, isn't it? An argument that doesn't just come from an opinion formed by watching. He's pretty certain in that.]
I know. [It takes so much of his own energy not to frown just yet, but he manages with a weak smile and a sigh of a laugh instead, shaking his head.] You had a sister, didn't you?
[Had... was it had? It's all he can think of.
But that's deflecting, and that's not fair, and so he relents shortly after.]
That's exactly how I want to look out for her. If she has my title, she'd be set for life. Money, power, freedom-- people wouldn't be able to look at her and see her as anything wrong or out of place.
[This just... This doesn't work without the context does it? And so there's a heavy pause, and Zelos looks away from Jack and to the other side of the clinic instead.]
She's my half sister. My father, the last chosen... He never loved my mother. It was an arranged marriage, so it was only natural that he'd have someone on the side. A half-elf. [...This was so hard to share. But thinking on it, Lloyd had told him he shared information like this with him in some... future. So. Maybe it's not as strange as he thinks.
But it still makes him pause with a tired, breathy sigh. This probably all sounds so stupid and dramatic.] I don't know... It's not exactly simple. But I'm not taking care of her now, so what difference does it make?