[ yeah!! unfortunately, it's a coping mechanism!!! but that's fine. lin doesn't need to know that part.
he takes the way lin jingheng holds his arms and looks up at him, matching his eyes. he looks lost, now. lost, and tired, searching his face like it's going to hold an answer - a moment of clear vulnerability.
... and then, tiredly, he smiles. it's small, the soft duck of his head included, a huff of a laugh. his heart, despite everything, squeezes, exhausted and warm for lin jingheng. it means so much to him - to have him here, but to know his soft-hearted commander, to feel the way he loves him like a novelty after seventeen years. could he have programmed his hologram to do this? the clone, he almost made?
...no. no, he doesn't think so. ]
...yeah. Yeah, of course I will. It's about a revolution, Lin. It's really good. [ the last bit tapers off, a little wet. ]
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he takes the way lin jingheng holds his arms and looks up at him, matching his eyes. he looks lost, now. lost, and tired, searching his face like it's going to hold an answer - a moment of clear vulnerability.
... and then, tiredly, he smiles. it's small, the soft duck of his head included, a huff of a laugh. his heart, despite everything, squeezes, exhausted and warm for lin jingheng. it means so much to him - to have him here, but to know his soft-hearted commander, to feel the way he loves him like a novelty after seventeen years. could he have programmed his hologram to do this? the clone, he almost made?
...no. no, he doesn't think so. ]
...yeah. Yeah, of course I will. It's about a revolution, Lin. It's really good. [ the last bit tapers off, a little wet. ]