[If nothing else, Bel is sensitive to instincts. That first flinch gets a surge of hope and a pang of longing (mourning?).
Whatever this is (is this it? God! Please let it be it) it's not a seizure. Miles is very there, almost electrically present for how much it doesn't seem to even be over yet.
The grip is almost painful, full of a force Miles had never been able to exert on his more delicate fingers before the bones were replaced. Bel makes no move to break it at all..
The gesture slides a little, down his face, curious, testing.]
You have. The only thing keeping you alive sometimes.
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Whatever this is (is this it? God! Please let it be it) it's not a seizure. Miles is very there, almost electrically present for how much it doesn't seem to even be over yet.
The grip is almost painful, full of a force Miles had never been able to exert on his more delicate fingers before the bones were replaced. Bel makes no move to break it at all..
The gesture slides a little, down his face, curious, testing.]
You have. The only thing keeping you alive sometimes.