[Because it is kind of nice, actually, and not an altogether unfamiliar feeling, either. Beneath the waistband of his pants, his Crest-shaped gemstone glows faintly to life in response to the Synchrony being initiated, and for a few seconds he joins Ashe in lounging with his eyes closed, feeling out the new connection.
Despite all appearances, he's wound tighter than Ashe is right now, probably. It's a vague tension that starts out nebulous but gradually begins to take a clearer shape the longer they rest against each other — a sort of latent frustration, the feeling of trying to fit a square peg through a round hole, of swimming against a tide and making little progress forward, while at the same time avoiding the temptation to surrender to the undertow.
It's the feeling of a person accustomed to fighting, only now the battle isn't against an enemy he can defeat; it's against an environment that's foreign to him, and circumstances that are strange, and a poignant desire to embark on a journey while having little to no idea how to even begin.]
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[Because it is kind of nice, actually, and not an altogether unfamiliar feeling, either. Beneath the waistband of his pants, his Crest-shaped gemstone glows faintly to life in response to the Synchrony being initiated, and for a few seconds he joins Ashe in lounging with his eyes closed, feeling out the new connection.
Despite all appearances, he's wound tighter than Ashe is right now, probably. It's a vague tension that starts out nebulous but gradually begins to take a clearer shape the longer they rest against each other — a sort of latent frustration, the feeling of trying to fit a square peg through a round hole, of swimming against a tide and making little progress forward, while at the same time avoiding the temptation to surrender to the undertow.
It's the feeling of a person accustomed to fighting, only now the battle isn't against an enemy he can defeat; it's against an environment that's foreign to him, and circumstances that are strange, and a poignant desire to embark on a journey while having little to no idea how to even begin.]