[Yuan might have had something to say in return, something reasonable, until that last.]
[And he'd thought, oh how he'd thought his skin was thick enough to ignore comments on his race by now-- but Kratos, as is well his fashion, strikes right under it. That does hurt, less for the explicit words and more for what it implies Kratos believes of Yuan--]
[His entire bearing stiffens to hide the flinch, which is as good as showing it in the first place. Damnable.]
[The only thing that keeps his feet in the same place is that flicker in Kratos's expression, the minuscule realization come too late, which Yuan wouldn't even have spotted a week or two ago, if he wasn't paying such close attention in his quest to understand this in the first place.]
[All the same he feels defensive, though Yuan surely doesn't owe Kratos any explanations for why he is the way he is.]
And what the hell is an imperial knight doing here, then?
[What oath leaves room for keeping a half-elf's house and pushing himself to toppling over chores, for spirits' sakes? Kratos said something, back when he had first arrived, about being committed to Yuan now. It makes even less sense now than it did then.]
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[And he'd thought, oh how he'd thought his skin was thick enough to ignore comments on his race by now-- but Kratos, as is well his fashion, strikes right under it. That does hurt, less for the explicit words and more for what it implies Kratos believes of Yuan--]
[His entire bearing stiffens to hide the flinch, which is as good as showing it in the first place. Damnable.]
[The only thing that keeps his feet in the same place is that flicker in Kratos's expression, the minuscule realization come too late, which Yuan wouldn't even have spotted a week or two ago, if he wasn't paying such close attention in his quest to understand this in the first place.]
[All the same he feels defensive, though Yuan surely doesn't owe Kratos any explanations for why he is the way he is.]
And what the hell is an imperial knight doing here, then?
[What oath leaves room for keeping a half-elf's house and pushing himself to toppling over chores, for spirits' sakes? Kratos said something, back when he had first arrived, about being committed to Yuan now. It makes even less sense now than it did then.]