[action] it's okay! :3b I'm also sorry for this guy being a near-heartless b-tard ;;
You are welcome.
[ Always calm, always in control. Perhaps they even make a contrasting picture together -- one, crumpled and wet in tears, and the other straight and airy.
It's not that Ribbons had purposely brought him to the Pavilion, but it was a place that had to be crossed to get to the Beach, to the Memorial Garden, to Amaterasu's Guardian Sapling, to his Koi Pond.
He was slightly startled at first, at Alois' grabbing of his wrist, and look back he does -- not that he ever strays too far from his charge. He tries to pick up from his own memory as to when he had seen something like that -- was it Tieria crying in Nadleeh's cockpit? Was it Louise Halevy weeping in her hospital bed? Was it Chall who shed tears over a comrade's headband?
Or were they his own that he had forbidden himself to shed, when a father's attention and the inheritance to a grand dream were taken away from him? ]
Understood.
[ And so he walks in a measured pace. After a moment. ]