"Okay, I mean...I wasn't thrilled to see Sven leave, but first, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you were probably a bit closer to him than I was, so the hurt you were experiencing as he left? Probably a bit worse than mine." He wasn't exactly close enough physically to her to experience all that, but he's not totally oblivious in regards to these things, either.
But then he snorted. "What is this with people thinking I'm so good? Is it 'cause I've got angel blood? Listen, I'm mortal, even if I'm only half human. I make dumb mistakes just like everyone else, and I'm definitely not perfect. This time, yeah, okay, I did act with compassion, but I can't promise I'm gonna do it all the time, either!" Xander shook his head at that. Just like Alice, thinking he was going to talk her out of shanking someone he thought actually deserved it...
Though that secondary source of guilt and pain has him glancing over in an attempt to find it, as well.
"The train's...okay as it ever is, I guess, but it's distanced itself. Not that I'm not gonna check up on it." And try to charm it as carefully as he'd ever charmed the most shy of his Elementals. "I'm not sure if I can say there's no lasting damage? But there doesn't seem to be, if there's any consolation there."
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"Okay, I mean...I wasn't thrilled to see Sven leave, but first, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you were probably a bit closer to him than I was, so the hurt you were experiencing as he left? Probably a bit worse than mine." He wasn't exactly close enough physically to her to experience all that, but he's not totally oblivious in regards to these things, either.
But then he snorted. "What is this with people thinking I'm so good? Is it 'cause I've got angel blood? Listen, I'm mortal, even if I'm only half human. I make dumb mistakes just like everyone else, and I'm definitely not perfect. This time, yeah, okay, I did act with compassion, but I can't promise I'm gonna do it all the time, either!" Xander shook his head at that. Just like Alice, thinking he was going to talk her out of shanking someone he thought actually deserved it...
Though that secondary source of guilt and pain has him glancing over in an attempt to find it, as well.
"The train's...okay as it ever is, I guess, but it's distanced itself. Not that I'm not gonna check up on it." And try to charm it as carefully as he'd ever charmed the most shy of his Elementals. "I'm not sure if I can say there's no lasting damage? But there doesn't seem to be, if there's any consolation there."