[ gruffly: ] I was keeping an eye on the bystanders.
[ He had been, more or less. It was a Duel after all, and those weren't supposed to involve the spectators. Shadow games had surprisingly strict rules, when one got right down to it. Bakura decides pointing this out to Raine is probably ill-advised, however. But he hadn't expected to hear his own words in a situation like this, certainly not in a context where he was at fault for the what had happened, and it stills him for a moment.
Then the touch returns against her back, just firmer than before. She'd asked him, not altogether that long ago, if he couldn't imagine grief for a world he was no longer in. He hadn't answered it at the time, but Bakura revisited the idea now; it still didn't sit well, but he began to get it. ]
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[ He had been, more or less. It was a Duel after all, and those weren't supposed to involve the spectators. Shadow games had surprisingly strict rules, when one got right down to it. Bakura decides pointing this out to Raine is probably ill-advised, however. But he hadn't expected to hear his own words in a situation like this, certainly not in a context where he was at fault for the what had happened, and it stills him for a moment.
Then the touch returns against her back, just firmer than before. She'd asked him, not altogether that long ago, if he couldn't imagine grief for a world he was no longer in. He hadn't answered it at the time, but Bakura revisited the idea now; it still didn't sit well, but he began to get it. ]
Tennut a'ai-er, nebet taui, nehem uai khasefiw en-i.
[ He doesn't offer to translate it, but it's as close to fond as anyone has probably heard from him since he eventually warmed to Emily-Helen. ]
I'll remember.