Even gave a bit of a smile, despite himself. Knowing that somebody was actually surprised that there'd only ever been one person in his life was oddly comforting, somehow. It made him feel a bit better.
"Before everything happened I was always so busy," he said, finishing his cup of tea. "Research, long hours, raising a child. I always considered relationships to be the pursuit of people with more time on their hands than I did and less interesting things to occupy their thoughts."
He pushed back his hair, thinking back to Radiant Garden. It had been true of all of them, really. None had ever bothered to go after romantic entanglements, not even the guards, not really. They had all been too driven towards greater things.
"Then the opportunity presented itself and I suppose I couldn't help it," he said, sounding awkward, and a little guilty, though he couldn't quite identify why. "I was attracted to Saix and ... I suppose we threw caution to the wind. Having the ability to feel after so long without made everything rather overwhelming."
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Date: 2015-12-28 10:36 pm (UTC)"Before everything happened I was always so busy," he said, finishing his cup of tea. "Research, long hours, raising a child. I always considered relationships to be the pursuit of people with more time on their hands than I did and less interesting things to occupy their thoughts."
He pushed back his hair, thinking back to Radiant Garden. It had been true of all of them, really. None had ever bothered to go after romantic entanglements, not even the guards, not really. They had all been too driven towards greater things.
"Then the opportunity presented itself and I suppose I couldn't help it," he said, sounding awkward, and a little guilty, though he couldn't quite identify why. "I was attracted to Saix and ... I suppose we threw caution to the wind. Having the ability to feel after so long without made everything rather overwhelming."
It helped if he rationalised it.