[Connor takes a moment to respond, mostly because he started thinking about Hank's vice when he gets overwhelmed- Russian Roulette. He hasn't done it since arriving here as far as Connor knows, but he still worries about it.]
Humans have odd ways of dealing with their feelings.
... warm, and drifty. It's difficult to think like this, and that subject isn't exactly easy for it in the first place.
It feels love for L. By all measure, by all comparison of depictions in fiction and dictionary definition, that is objectively the name for the sensation it experiences. It trusts him. It feels strong affection for him. It forgives him when he makes mistakes. It feels unhappy when harm comes to him. It enjoys time spent in his presence.
And it knows-- it knows beyond the shadow of a doubt-- that he feels the same way in return. It knows, because it has felt it, because it has seen all the same signs, though L's emotional reactions to them are quite... unusual.
Perhaps the best way to describe how it feels is...]
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I noticed. I'm sorry.
[He would talk to L about it himself, but maybe Justine will be able to talk some sense into him. She'll probably be better at it, anyway.]
He'll come around. I'm sure of it.
[He tries to send that reassurance through the Bond, too.]
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[Its eyes drift closed; and in the new dark the gesture causes, it feels as though its body is too light, as if it's been lifted from its own skull.
It's not... entirely unpleasant. It almost feels bodyless, the way it should be, but warmer, anchored only by the beat of its human heart.]
He will. But medicating every strong feeling he has like this is... [First the alcohol, and now this. It's... troubling, at least for his partner.]
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Humans have odd ways of dealing with their feelings.
[He will probably never understand it.]
But... what about you? How do you feel?
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... warm, and drifty. It's difficult to think like this, and that subject isn't exactly easy for it in the first place.
It feels love for L. By all measure, by all comparison of depictions in fiction and dictionary definition, that is objectively the name for the sensation it experiences. It trusts him. It feels strong affection for him. It forgives him when he makes mistakes. It feels unhappy when harm comes to him. It enjoys time spent in his presence.
And it knows-- it knows beyond the shadow of a doubt-- that he feels the same way in return. It knows, because it has felt it, because it has seen all the same signs, though L's emotional reactions to them are quite... unusual.
Perhaps the best way to describe how it feels is...]
... frustrated.