[ It takes a moment for Squall to lift his gaze. Talking with Seifer at his back is always easier than when they're face to face. His breath comes in sharp, bracing for whatever it is Seifer might say as he lets himself be pulled to a halt. ]
Garden is full of idiots.
[ He says it flatly, but he's bitten off the obscenity that might have snuck itself between the words if he wasn't already warring with himself for speaking at all. Even in this, these assurances, Seifer has a way about him that Squall would devote himself to. The idea of moving forward...of passing the SeeD exam without Seifer when he has been his constant all these years...
Squall twists his wrist but it's not to get out of the clasp. Instead, he returns it. Likely pressing bloody fingerprints into Seifer's skin from the gloves that are saturated in it. Apparently blood is good for pacts. In the not so distant future, when they bear mirror marks across their faces, he'll wonder if that was just another way to bind themselves to each other. ]
I need you...to keep setting the bar. I don't want to go into this exam without something to strive for.
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Garden is full of idiots.
[ He says it flatly, but he's bitten off the obscenity that might have snuck itself between the words if he wasn't already warring with himself for speaking at all. Even in this, these assurances, Seifer has a way about him that Squall would devote himself to. The idea of moving forward...of passing the SeeD exam without Seifer when he has been his constant all these years...
Squall twists his wrist but it's not to get out of the clasp. Instead, he returns it. Likely pressing bloody fingerprints into Seifer's skin from the gloves that are saturated in it. Apparently blood is good for pacts. In the not so distant future, when they bear mirror marks across their faces, he'll wonder if that was just another way to bind themselves to each other. ]
I need you...to keep setting the bar. I don't want to go into this exam without something to strive for.