[Maxima searches Takame's features, reading him carefully, looking for any sign that he's extending this offer out of obligation. But Maxima had agreed to leave first, so...if there's an effort being made here, it's because Takame wants to keep him here.
He stops moving toward the door, and instead turns fully back toward Takame, approaching slowly to a conversational distance, his expression cautious but relieved.]
Then...I'm glad. That the actions I took back then haven't...permanently damaged a friendship I value. [He hesitates awkwardly, searching for any other words, but in the end can only say what's foremost in his mind.] ...I'm truly so sorry, Takame.
[It was true that Takame did not want Maxima to leave, but his tail was still stiff behind him. Its natural gentle sway was gone in Maxima's presence and Takame wasn't fully aware of it. He was not an expressive man but the look in the Au Ra's eyes was, of all things, guilt-ridden.]
You haven't. You haven't... [He shook his head.] ... I should apologize. I... If I were more cautious and careful I... you would not have had to...
[He stopped himself, looking to the side. That sort of talk upset Rose and Lycaon. While Takame was and is angry with Rose, the both of them did not like that Takame blamed himself. But kami above, if he did not have his strength that did he have...
He didn't want to upset Maxima, though. He didn't want to say something incorrect.]
You... Maxima, had you not done what you did I would have surely died. Even if everyone was able to return to the realm of the living...
I have felt the cold embrace of death once before. I do not wish to ever feel it again.
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He stops moving toward the door, and instead turns fully back toward Takame, approaching slowly to a conversational distance, his expression cautious but relieved.]
Then...I'm glad. That the actions I took back then haven't...permanently damaged a friendship I value. [He hesitates awkwardly, searching for any other words, but in the end can only say what's foremost in his mind.] ...I'm truly so sorry, Takame.
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You haven't. You haven't... [He shook his head.] ... I should apologize. I... If I were more cautious and careful I... you would not have had to...
[He stopped himself, looking to the side. That sort of talk upset Rose and Lycaon. While Takame was and is angry with Rose, the both of them did not like that Takame blamed himself. But kami above, if he did not have his strength that did he have...
He didn't want to upset Maxima, though. He didn't want to say something incorrect.]
You... Maxima, had you not done what you did I would have surely died. Even if everyone was able to return to the realm of the living...
I have felt the cold embrace of death once before. I do not wish to ever feel it again.