[Ryou stays wrapped up as he is, for as long as he can manage to, even when he's responding to Atem.]
I-if you change your mind...he'll be here.
[He has no such illusions about whether the lion was their pet or not. Ryou's treated Tybolt as a permanent fixture for almost as long as Atem's been in denial. That's their pet. He's part of their strange little group. The host to everlasting darkness, the mixture of everlasting darkness with a nameless king, and the eternally youthful lion-child. Yes, Tybolt has belonged here for a very long time.
While Atem says his goodbyes, Ryou's mostly-clean wing unfurls, and he chances a look out from his feather prison. He shouldn't have, because seeing Atem ready to go, with his bag, saying goodbye to Tybolt...it makes Ryou's breath catch in his chest. It...hurts. It really hurts, knowing that he'd had a hand in this. He had told Atem before, that he never wanted to argue again, back when they'd argued over the dehydrating, on how Ryou should be taking care of it.
He wants to apologize...but further words will do nothing but make it worse.
He doesn't expect Atem to look over, but if he does, a moment before the wing encloses Ryou again, he probably wouldn't miss the regret written all over Ryou's face.]
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I-if you change your mind...he'll be here.
[He has no such illusions about whether the lion was their pet or not. Ryou's treated Tybolt as a permanent fixture for almost as long as Atem's been in denial. That's their pet. He's part of their strange little group. The host to everlasting darkness, the mixture of everlasting darkness with a nameless king, and the eternally youthful lion-child. Yes, Tybolt has belonged here for a very long time.
While Atem says his goodbyes, Ryou's mostly-clean wing unfurls, and he chances a look out from his feather prison. He shouldn't have, because seeing Atem ready to go, with his bag, saying goodbye to Tybolt...it makes Ryou's breath catch in his chest. It...hurts. It really hurts, knowing that he'd had a hand in this. He had told Atem before, that he never wanted to argue again, back when they'd argued over the dehydrating, on how Ryou should be taking care of it.
He wants to apologize...but further words will do nothing but make it worse.
He doesn't expect Atem to look over, but if he does, a moment before the wing encloses Ryou again, he probably wouldn't miss the regret written all over Ryou's face.]