[ There is no reluctance in listening to that instruction. If anything there's relief that it's easy to do so; he's been so worried that dipping into bad memories will tip him into a hole from which there's no escape. But that didn't happen last week, and it's not happening today.
He thinks to making art with his mother on lazy weekend mornings. Of classes with his boyhood friends. The fist time he went flying. Stealing the Strahl. He and Fran browsing markets in a hundred different towns.
A memory catches, pulling him in. He was still an early pirate, no good at it, embarrassed by that, actually. But he'd had his first real successful job. It was the first time he'd been Balthier, really. And he'd been asked to stay, encouraged even. Nothing to influence their opinion -- no family ties or wealth or politics, just his damn mouth and tenacity.
Warmth spreads in his chest, and a smile takes over his face. In pushing down the bad, he's forgotten that part; he seems to always find his favorite people when he's at his lowest. Which of course brings David to mind. He tries not to focus too much on that, since he's supposedto be thinking of home, but his smile widens.
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He thinks to making art with his mother on lazy weekend mornings. Of classes with his boyhood friends. The fist time he went flying. Stealing the Strahl. He and Fran browsing markets in a hundred different towns.
A memory catches, pulling him in. He was still an early pirate, no good at it, embarrassed by that, actually. But he'd had his first real successful job. It was the first time he'd been Balthier, really. And he'd been asked to stay, encouraged even. Nothing to influence their opinion -- no family ties or wealth or politics, just his damn mouth and tenacity.
Warmth spreads in his chest, and a smile takes over his face. In pushing down the bad, he's forgotten that part; he seems to always find his favorite people when he's at his lowest. Which of course brings David to mind. He tries not to focus too much on that, since he's supposedto be thinking of home, but his smile widens.