[It's a neutral statement, neither agreement or disagreement. He watches her pawn, then castles his king with his rook, further hiding the most critical piece and opening up another front in their board-game battle. He would be the first to argue that no, actually, leaving oneself guarded is the better thing to do. His desperate need for attention, for his peers to look at him and notice him and want to be around him, had ultimately been his undoing. Pancakes.
But then, what he has now, however brief and fragile it might be, would never have come to pass if he hadn't let Ren in.
He doesn't say any of that aloud. He likely doesn't have to, considering the embarrassing mental breakdown he'd had in front of all of them in that damned engine room. Instead, he just quirks an eyebrow at her smile, a hint of a smirk threatening the corners of his lips.]
"Or else?" [he says with no small amount of amusement.] Noted.
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[It's a neutral statement, neither agreement or disagreement. He watches her pawn, then castles his king with his rook, further hiding the most critical piece and opening up another front in their board-game battle. He would be the first to argue that no, actually, leaving oneself guarded is the better thing to do. His desperate need for attention, for his peers to look at him and notice him and want to be around him, had ultimately been his undoing. Pancakes.
But then, what he has now, however brief and fragile it might be, would never have come to pass if he hadn't let Ren in.
He doesn't say any of that aloud. He likely doesn't have to, considering the embarrassing mental breakdown he'd had in front of all of them in that damned engine room. Instead, he just quirks an eyebrow at her smile, a hint of a smirk threatening the corners of his lips.]
"Or else?" [he says with no small amount of amusement.] Noted.