Well, lovely. His efforts to protect Peter, or at the very least give some comfort and kindness, are useless. He can add that to the growing tally of ways he can't support the people he cares for here.
He feels Peter's hand clench around his and tries to pull him in for an embrace, tries to turn his head away from whatever he doesn't want to see.
The scene before them is undeniably terrible, Peter's face contorted; Balthier realizes what's happening a moment before it does. Even then, it makes him feel lighthearted and sick. It was different watching his father die. Truly, he did not want the man to live. But now he's clutching Peter to him, like the one he knows is going to somehow become a mirror of the one he's seeing.
"You're okay, Peter, it's okay."
The jaeger couldn't be farther from his mind. This boy has been through so much; Balthier doesn't want him to pull farther away, to go cloister himself away any more than he already is. Because that's what he'd have done at that age, with this kind of weight, and his was only a fraction of what Peter carried.
because it hurts so much worse when you try to be nice and it utterly fails >:3
He feels Peter's hand clench around his and tries to pull him in for an embrace, tries to turn his head away from whatever he doesn't want to see.
The scene before them is undeniably terrible, Peter's face contorted; Balthier realizes what's happening a moment before it does. Even then, it makes him feel lighthearted and sick. It was different watching his father die. Truly, he did not want the man to live. But now he's clutching Peter to him, like the one he knows is going to somehow become a mirror of the one he's seeing.
"You're okay, Peter, it's okay."
The jaeger couldn't be farther from his mind. This boy has been through so much; Balthier doesn't want him to pull farther away, to go cloister himself away any more than he already is. Because that's what he'd have done at that age, with this kind of weight, and his was only a fraction of what Peter carried.