[ The questions catch him by surprise. They're not out of left field, exactly, but of all she could've answered with--he wasn't expecting that. ]
I--I guess so.
[ Honestly, he hasn't thought about it at all. She's right, though, he knows; they've been so busy this past year, the whole restoration committee, that they've hardly seen each other's shadows unless it had something to do with the reconstruction. Leon was happy that way, in fact: he liked having a routine, a job to do, something concrete and stable to work on. Clearly, he thinks guiltily, Aerith was not. Suddenly, he feels like a pretty bad friend. ]
You're right. We'd probably be working, right now. [ He shakes his head; his expression stiffens. ] But this isn't--this isn't a vacation, Aerith. We've got work to do, back home. More important than...
[ He was about to say 'this', in reference to the world around them, but he knows it'd ring false if he said it now, holding the baby Growlithe that nearly didn't make it. Things do matter here; it's just that the things back home matter infinitely more, still. ]
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I--I guess so.
[ Honestly, he hasn't thought about it at all. She's right, though, he knows; they've been so busy this past year, the whole restoration committee, that they've hardly seen each other's shadows unless it had something to do with the reconstruction. Leon was happy that way, in fact: he liked having a routine, a job to do, something concrete and stable to work on. Clearly, he thinks guiltily, Aerith was not. Suddenly, he feels like a pretty bad friend. ]
You're right. We'd probably be working, right now. [ He shakes his head; his expression stiffens. ] But this isn't--this isn't a vacation, Aerith. We've got work to do, back home. More important than...
[ He was about to say 'this', in reference to the world around them, but he knows it'd ring false if he said it now, holding the baby Growlithe that nearly didn't make it. Things do matter here; it's just that the things back home matter infinitely more, still. ]