[ Continuing to look for hope, no matter how many times you keep losing it? It's exhausting. It's an impossible standard to hold yourself to.
And it's dazzling, too. Maybe unexpectedly, Maika doesn't have a cynical rebuttal ready. She just makes a thoughtful hum, though her gaze slides away from Aerith's face for a moment. ]
Kippa would tell me that it's exactly because of how I am that I just have to look twice as hard as anyone else would. So maybe you're softer than a silly fox-child.
[ There's a wry note in her voice, and a tiny spark of teasing. She seems to find her equilibrium after a moment, enough to look Aerith in the eyes again. ]
I wasn't asking for me. You're just... a puzzle I can't figure out. So much for my supposed ability to read people.
[ Although if she had to apply her particular skillset to Aerith... people attribute the motives to others that they feel most instinctively themselves. If Aerith looks for caring in places that don't show it, it suggests she's someone who cares so deeply that she searches for that reflection in others. ]
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And it's dazzling, too. Maybe unexpectedly, Maika doesn't have a cynical rebuttal ready. She just makes a thoughtful hum, though her gaze slides away from Aerith's face for a moment. ]
Kippa would tell me that it's exactly because of how I am that I just have to look twice as hard as anyone else would. So maybe you're softer than a silly fox-child.
[ There's a wry note in her voice, and a tiny spark of teasing. She seems to find her equilibrium after a moment, enough to look Aerith in the eyes again. ]
I wasn't asking for me. You're just... a puzzle I can't figure out. So much for my supposed ability to read people.
[ Although if she had to apply her particular skillset to Aerith... people attribute the motives to others that they feel most instinctively themselves. If Aerith looks for caring in places that don't show it, it suggests she's someone who cares so deeply that she searches for that reflection in others. ]