[Albert wouldn't blame him if he was cautious or tense, awkward or distant. He earned that reaction from Mitsuki. Instead... he gets this wondrous brightness, and god help him, a laugh. It's enough to make him want to cry again, though he resists when he sees the smile linger for a fraction of a second after the laugh. His own relief finds its way out in an echoed laugh of his own.]
My goodness. I've given you leave to make demands and you're already demanding that I not work too hard? It's far too late for that. Oh, but you mean in this.
[He strokes Mitsuki's hair gently.]
A shame that I cannot honor that request. I'll work myself to the bone for you, and be thoroughly content while doing so. You are my liege, and I am but your humble servant.
[He's done killing people. He swore it off the day he met Mitsuki, and it is in fact slightly related to that very meeting. In a roundabout way, all the things that happened in Albert's first few days on the surface convinced him that this was a second chance, a fresh start, a place where he could live honestly and earnestly. There was an element of naive optimism in that conclusion, of course, but he couldn't help but see that optimism grow as he met more people, and learned to love differently than he ever had before.
Dragging light fingertips along Mitsuki's cheek, looking at him with all the wonder he had the first time they kissed, he sees him anew, commits every curve to memory again, more devotedly and sweeter than even before.]
Shall I talk, tonight? Though I would hear what you have to say, too, even if it hurts me, or casts me in an unfavorable light. Your heart and mind are precious and important to me. More than that, selfishly... I fear that if I don't know precisely how you feel, I'll continue to nurse this horrible heaviness in my heart, and a peculiar knot between my shoulder blades.
[Mitsuki, is it clear yet that you've fallen in love with a man who's as masochistic as he is anything else? The time he's had to brood on his failings as a man, and as a lover and partner, has worn him thin. It's clear up close, though he's taken to hiding it in various ways. There are dark circles under his eyes, too, and he does seem almost to have aged more than usual in the span of a month.]
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My goodness. I've given you leave to make demands and you're already demanding that I not work too hard? It's far too late for that. Oh, but you mean in this.
[He strokes Mitsuki's hair gently.]
A shame that I cannot honor that request. I'll work myself to the bone for you, and be thoroughly content while doing so. You are my liege, and I am but your humble servant.
[He's done killing people. He swore it off the day he met Mitsuki, and it is in fact slightly related to that very meeting. In a roundabout way, all the things that happened in Albert's first few days on the surface convinced him that this was a second chance, a fresh start, a place where he could live honestly and earnestly. There was an element of naive optimism in that conclusion, of course, but he couldn't help but see that optimism grow as he met more people, and learned to love differently than he ever had before.
Dragging light fingertips along Mitsuki's cheek, looking at him with all the wonder he had the first time they kissed, he sees him anew, commits every curve to memory again, more devotedly and sweeter than even before.]
Shall I talk, tonight? Though I would hear what you have to say, too, even if it hurts me, or casts me in an unfavorable light. Your heart and mind are precious and important to me. More than that, selfishly... I fear that if I don't know precisely how you feel, I'll continue to nurse this horrible heaviness in my heart, and a peculiar knot between my shoulder blades.
[Mitsuki, is it clear yet that you've fallen in love with a man who's as masochistic as he is anything else? The time he's had to brood on his failings as a man, and as a lover and partner, has worn him thin. It's clear up close, though he's taken to hiding it in various ways. There are dark circles under his eyes, too, and he does seem almost to have aged more than usual in the span of a month.]