[The retort comes without a hitch, but underneath it there's a mess of flickering emotions -- fear, shame, doubt, anger, disappointment, regret, and concern for Aqua that's laced with unspoken apology and an almost numbing sense of disgrace and something perilously close to self-loathing.
He's determined not to let it show -- not to let Vanitas know how badly he's been rattled, even if he tells himself that he can't just believe everything this jerk says -- but it's futile, anyway the fact that he doesn't say anything, that he can't think of anything, might give it away.]
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[The retort comes without a hitch, but underneath it there's a mess of flickering emotions -- fear, shame, doubt, anger, disappointment, regret, and concern for Aqua that's laced with unspoken apology and an almost numbing sense of disgrace and something perilously close to self-loathing.
He's determined not to let it show -- not to let Vanitas know how badly he's been rattled, even if he tells himself that he can't just believe everything this jerk says -- but
it's futile, anywaythe fact that he doesn't say anything, that he can't think of anything, might give it away.]