The lyre does have a positive effect. Quiet and calming as it is, no one else seems to disturb them or tell them to be quieter, and Blade's breathing becomes slower and easier...]
... He is.
[He sees trembling fingers, but when he closes his eyes, he remembers how they wrapped around his own in another life. Another time. Bearing another name... He rubs his thumb over the edges of the bracer again.]
He's worth everything. [And that scares him, feeling that intensely for a person he barely knows, but that won't change anytime soon. He's sure of that.] Any price. Even if I'm the only one left to pay it.
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[... That fits more than Venti could know.
The lyre does have a positive effect. Quiet and calming as it is, no one else seems to disturb them or tell them to be quieter, and Blade's breathing becomes slower and easier...]
... He is.
[He sees trembling fingers, but when he closes his eyes, he remembers how they wrapped around his own in another life. Another time. Bearing another name... He rubs his thumb over the edges of the bracer again.]
He's worth everything. [And that scares him, feeling that intensely for a person he barely knows, but that won't change anytime soon. He's sure of that.] Any price. Even if I'm the only one left to pay it.