[ when he speaks, it almost takes him off guard, if just because he didn't entirely expect such a question to come from the man. their exchanges had always been relatively casual outside of their fists, after all...
he seems to pause, as if to think about how to answer it. how much honesty to put behind it without it revealing too much of his circumstances. more out of habit than he is consciously doing it. ] Not really. To begin, there was never anyone like that.
[ he was an orphan after all, and then in the tower, he may have had companions once, but that was all gone the moment he stepped back in time. ]
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he seems to pause, as if to think about how to answer it. how much honesty to put behind it without it revealing too much of his circumstances. more out of habit than he is consciously doing it. ] Not really. To begin, there was never anyone like that.
[ he was an orphan after all, and then in the tower, he may have had companions once, but that was all gone the moment he stepped back in time. ]