[he's quiet as she speaks, listening thoughtfully to her words and her story.
some of it goes over his head a bit—locations and artes, and other things that he can only recall from the stories she told him a decade earlier. but he still follows the general idea of what she's saying.
and hough there's something strange and melancholic about it, noctis finds a faint smile on his lips.]
...Sounds like you. Even losing everything about yourself, you kept going forward until you found a way to get it back.
[it's something she credits jude for, and noctis won't deny that he was probably part of it; he knows well enough already that jude is someone important to her, someone who has motivated her to be better and stronger, and hearing this story...
well, he definitely understands it a little more than when she'd first explained it to him.]
Bet even without that, you probably would've found a way to keep going until you were you again.
[but. noct is glad for it, because... he's glad the milla he met is someone strong enough to face that and conquer it. it's what made him like her to begin with and help motivate him so much to live up to the title that had been decided for him.]
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some of it goes over his head a bit—locations and artes, and other things that he can only recall from the stories she told him a decade earlier. but he still follows the general idea of what she's saying.
and hough there's something strange and melancholic about it, noctis finds a faint smile on his lips.]
...Sounds like you. Even losing everything about yourself, you kept going forward until you found a way to get it back.
[it's something she credits jude for, and noctis won't deny that he was probably part of it; he knows well enough already that jude is someone important to her, someone who has motivated her to be better and stronger, and hearing this story...
well, he definitely understands it a little more than when she'd first explained it to him.]
Bet even without that, you probably would've found a way to keep going until you were you again.
[but. noct is glad for it, because... he's glad the milla he met is someone strong enough to face that and conquer it. it's what made him like her to begin with and help motivate him so much to live up to the title that had been decided for him.]