[ Dismissive hand flap! ] Once you've accepted that it's somehow possible, then the outer limits of what else could be 'possible' naturally expand.
[ ...It's not so unfamiliar, for his half. The last three months... haven't erased any of the damage they've done to one another, but. Through necessity, they'd learned to work together again. And through learning to work together again, they'd...
The fingers of his lifted hand clench slowly; unclench, even more slowly. Lelouch watches them move, then says: ]