those crystal blues

[carbungle]

♥ Who: Noctis and... some people!! CR-related.
♥ Where: @ the Caelum junior house
♥ When: around now, yolo
♥ What: a wall breaks, a flood rushes in. try not to drown.
♥ Rating: PG, thar be some blood


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[iustaegis]

I...

[ She realizes, then, that perhaps she shouldn't say too much. This is something Noctis should speak to Regis about. Yet, seeing Regis so worried and helpless... She can't not say something to try to ease his worries. ]

It does.

[ She gives him a small nod. ] And--... think of it as somethin that's overwhelmed him, here, because of that. I-- By splicing a part of my crystal, I've stopped it. [ Although, those first few minutes in which she couldn't get to him may have caused some damage. How he'll respond or recover from that, they'll all have to wait until he wakes up.

...He'll wake up. But this is twice he's almost died, and his days are numbered back in his world. There's also no telling if any of them might vanish from this realm. ]

Regis... When he wakes, you have to talk to him. [ He will-- she can guess that much as his father-- but there won't be an infinite time they have together in Havenwell. ] I think that he'd want to tell you, himself.

[kingkingcxiii]

[Regis frowns. What she has said is a little and a lot all at once. He has no idea what she means by having "splicing a part of her crystal," but he has known for awhile that her existence is very difference from his and Noctis' and that she would never do anything that wouldn't help him. If that is what she needed to do, then he will trust her to have done the right thing, though he is a little more uncertain how much "doing the right thing" might have hurt her.

Her insistence that they talk once Noctis wakes up is where the "a lot" comes in. As much as he has tried to convince himself otherwise, she has just made it clear that there is more about the future that Noctis hasn't told him about. Perhaps even, that none of the others from Eos' future have told him about. They had worked very hard to make sure he didn't find out about Aulea dying until he lived through it. What else could possibly be so bad that they are going to the same effort to hid it from him? And will it make things better or worse if he and Noctis finally do talk to each other about them?]

I understand. I will make certain we have time to talk once he is stronger. What about you? "Splicing a part of your crystal?" That didn't injure you, did it?

[It's bad enough that Noctis, once more, is suffering more than any Lucian King has, but is she suffering now too?]

[iustaegis]

[ Pyra smiles at him apologetically, knowing all too well of her bad habit of saying things-- or not saying things-- and giving limited or no explanation at all.

She wants to do better than that. ]

I'm...---this. [ She motions to her crystal, or rather what's left of it, upon her chest. ] This crystal. That's all I am, in truth.

And I'm able to divide it, and so... I gave a part of it to him. [ Her arm lifts, reaching out to Noctis' sleeping form, and taps above the center of his chest where his part of the crystal now lies embedded. ] I'm completely fine, though, Regis. [ She says this, sincere, and does her best to give him a reassuring smile. ] It doesn't hurt, if that's what you're wondering.

[kingkingcxiii]

You're just the crystal? So your body is a projection?

[Well, that does explain a little about how her form looks when she is wounded, but he is still struggling to comprehend the idea completely. It doesn't help that he has a crystal on his world that is more than just a crystal as well.]

I'm so glad it doesn't hurt you.

[Because, of course he was worrying and he knows Noctis would worry as well. Or already did worry if he had the chance to.]

Are you able to explain how exactly the crystal is helping my son?

[Just in case something happens in the future. He wants to be able to help if he can, unlike this time.]

[iustaegis]

[ She hesitates at his question. She can explain-- and she did a bit-- but she feels as if she's already said too much. If she went into more detail, that might give away something about which Noctis has yet to tell his father of the crystal. Saying that the crystal of Eos has burdened him with the memories of the world might lead to Regis asking why there would be a need. That need is somehow tied to Noctis' fate, of which Regis does not know.

This is a problem. Regis, she believes, has all the right to know and more, and as she meets Regis' eyes and sees the kindness within them, her heart aches for what she cannot say. She wants properly explain her part in this to him, but she can't. Or, she'll have to very carefully navigate about it. ​]

It alleviates a stress upon his soul, keeping it safe... and... protects his soul from more stress. The crystal may also physically protect him from a mortal wound, too. [ Even if he was stabbed through the heart, her crystal would repair it. ]

Rest assured, he's still him. There is not a part of my crystal that's imposing upon his psyche or will.

[kingkingcxiii]

[Regis has to shake his head at her last words, even as something at the beginning strikes worryingly close to home.]

I know you wouldn't do that to him. You two love each other too much to allow something like that to occur.

[There is a short pause and then he speaks softly enough one has to wonder if he really doesn't want acknowledgement despite having to get the thoughts out of his head.]

The Lucii have been harder on him than those who have come before. I am sure it is because he is their Chosen, but why must they pain him so? Is the long path he will have to travel not going to be pain enough?

[iustaegis]

[ She watches as grief wracks his expression, and she's never felt so helpless. In the end, she can't tell him more. ]

Regis...

[ So she pulls him into another hug. If she had a heart, she's sure it would feel as if it is breaking for him. The love a father has for his child, the love he has for Noctis to make things better for him-- when he doesn't know the truth--... is powerful. ]

I'm so sorry.

[kingkingcxiii]

[If only the power of those feelings and words could stifle the worry in Regis' heart as much as the hug comforts him for the moment. Really, she has no reason to apologize, not after all the joy she has brought Noctis. All the healing, as well. His son is getting to experience a part of life that Regis is sure he would not have gotten to experience otherwise.

No, the last thing Pyra needs to do is apologize. Still, he is thankful for her compassion. It's not like the Lucii or Fate will ever apologize for any of this.]

Thank you.