[Don't spread this around, but he hopes Shiho is getting the care and attention she needs too.]
[It was debatable whether crying, or this catatonic state would have been worse. Sure, the tears would have been more jarring initially but the longer this collapse continued the further his uneasiness was growing. It might have helped for her to have gotten this all out of her system somehow, but what did he know? Seto was an emotional wreck 90% of the time just from shoving everything under the rug for years. You can bet he would never allow himself to cry]
[If he would have only thought about this as a scenario he would better understand. If it had been Mokuba who spontaneously disappeared there wouldn't have been a force in this environment that didn't know about it. He would have searched the void from top to never-ending blank expanse!]
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[Even the ways she answered him lacked any force, as if just speaking took considerable effort. He relaxed his fist, letting his fingers extend and flexing them a few times.]
Too late. [The reply came too swiftly and he instantly regretted it. It could be taken the wrong way and she didn't need anything else to feel guilty about] I- mean.. [Inclining his head a bit to make it easier to make some sort of eye contact] .. I don't............ like seeing you this way [Rushing out the end of it in soft tones. It still should have been audible enough with how close they were situated] I'm.. not really the best sort of person to field this.. kind of thing but from what little I know of them they seem too stubborn to just fade away into nothingness. [Ugh, this sucks. Where's Yugi. Let him and the cheer squad tag in]
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Don't spread this around, but he hopes Shiho is getting the care and attention she needs too.][It was debatable whether crying, or this catatonic state would have been worse. Sure, the tears would have been more jarring initially but the longer this collapse continued the further his uneasiness was growing. It might have helped for her to have gotten this all out of her system somehow, but what did he know? Seto was an emotional wreck 90% of the time just from shoving everything under the rug for years. You can bet he would never allow himself to cry]
[If he would have only thought about this as a scenario he would better understand. If it had been Mokuba who spontaneously disappeared there wouldn't have been a force in this environment that didn't know about it. He would have searched the void from top to never-ending blank expanse!]
...
[Even the ways she answered him lacked any force, as if just speaking took considerable effort. He relaxed his fist, letting his fingers extend and flexing them a few times.]
Too late. [The reply came too swiftly and he instantly regretted it. It could be taken the wrong way and she didn't need anything else to feel guilty about] I- mean.. [Inclining his head a bit to make it easier to make some sort of eye contact] .. I don't............ like seeing you this way [Rushing out the end of it in soft tones. It still should have been audible enough with how close they were situated] I'm.. not really the best sort of person to field this.. kind of thing but from what little I know of them they seem too stubborn to just fade away into nothingness. [Ugh, this sucks. Where's Yugi. Let him and the cheer squad tag in]