[Jack simply shrugs slightly, at the first question, staff lifting and falling back to his shoulder with the gesture.]
They say the Man in the Moon works in strange ways. Apparently you don't usually forget, if you get chosen...but I did. So yeah.
[Maybe it's a rather belittling way to put it, like that--especially when his own opinion hadn't been nearly as calm and lenient so much as a year ago--but it's been a very long time since that year, and a lot of things have changed.]
[No use getting so worked up over it when you've finally got the answers you were wanting all that time, more or less.]
[That said, they both are opening up quite a bit here, and it's an odd feeling. Odd, but...not entirely unpleasant.]
[Zelos says, that, though, and it's finally enough to earn something of an almost-grin in return, despite everything.]
Us hot-headed friends have gotta be good for something, I guess. [And, with a slight laugh, Jack starts idly retracing his steps back to Zelos's side of the bed again.] But that's right. You can. And you figured that for yourself. Which is why I still trust you, and--why I think everyone else will, too. Eventually. Some people find it harder to let go of mistakes than others, but in the end...well, we all mess up every now and then.
S'what we do about it, after the fact, that matters the most.
[Is he speaking from experience? Maybe a little bit. But in the end that's how Jack would figure it even without the experience.]
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They say the Man in the Moon works in strange ways. Apparently you don't usually forget, if you get chosen...but I did. So yeah.
[Maybe it's a rather belittling way to put it, like that--especially when his own opinion hadn't been nearly as calm and lenient so much as a year ago--but it's been a very long time since that year, and a lot of things have changed.]
[No use getting so worked up over it when you've finally got the answers you were wanting all that time, more or less.]
[That said, they both are opening up quite a bit here, and it's an odd feeling. Odd, but...not entirely unpleasant.]
[Zelos says, that, though, and it's finally enough to earn something of an almost-grin in return, despite everything.]
Us hot-headed friends have gotta be good for something, I guess. [And, with a slight laugh, Jack starts idly retracing his steps back to Zelos's side of the bed again.] But that's right. You can. And you figured that for yourself. Which is why I still trust you, and--why I think everyone else will, too. Eventually. Some people find it harder to let go of mistakes than others, but in the end...well, we all mess up every now and then.
S'what we do about it, after the fact, that matters the most.
[Is he speaking from experience? Maybe a little bit. But in the end that's how Jack would figure it even without the experience.]