[The Tetha'allans, at least, hardly seem to think anything was untoward; but at the gates there is no small population of Sylvaranti. Kratos obeys Yuan's command and settles in the cart, trying to appear as submissive as possible under suspicious watching eyes.
[Wordlessly he finds the basket, sets package and flowers in. It's not a difficult order to obey. Right now, orders are very easy to obey.
[The cart sets off and Kratos is for a moment caught between looking and not looking; but in the end he does. The city is forever changed, and the sight of it receding in front of him makes his heart twist painfully as much for what he didn't see as for what he did. He hadn't been able to turn down the street where he'd been when the surrender order came. He'd stared at it just long enough to stall, and then silently passed on by.
[And Nike ...
[Of course, that had happened in the castle. There's no way he could have visited.
[But even so, the bitterness is thick in his throat, and the tears silent and unnoticed on his cheeks, as Vanaheim is swallowed up by Sylvaranti war camps around them.]
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[Wordlessly he finds the basket, sets package and flowers in. It's not a difficult order to obey. Right now, orders are very easy to obey.
[The cart sets off and Kratos is for a moment caught between looking and not looking; but in the end he does. The city is forever changed, and the sight of it receding in front of him makes his heart twist painfully as much for what he didn't see as for what he did. He hadn't been able to turn down the street where he'd been when the surrender order came. He'd stared at it just long enough to stall, and then silently passed on by.
[And Nike ...
[Of course, that had happened in the castle. There's no way he could have visited.
[But even so, the bitterness is thick in his throat, and the tears silent and unnoticed on his cheeks, as Vanaheim is swallowed up by Sylvaranti war camps around them.]