[Greeting cards aren't where he looks for his coolspiration, but alright. He blinks, looking up and after Eichi as he suddenly gets up, honestly surprised at the suddenness of it. It will take him a second to realize he can write in privacy now...
Ah. Well. Here he is, left alone with a lantern and however many minutes it takes Eichi to do whatever it is he claims he's doing. Noctis spends these minutes staring down into the open top of the lantern at the candle flame inside, watching it flicker like that will give him the power to put to words all the things he could never say to his father. Things he didn't have time to say, questions he couldn't ask—
In the end it's those same words that stick in his mind and all he can think of to write is a response, very simple, under the word 'Dad': 'I'm doing everything I can.'
And then smaller, accompanied by a scribble where he almost crossed the whole line out but decided against it, 'I miss you.'
That lantern is super gone whenever Eichi decides to return, and Noctis is sitting there looking up with his hands over his face because he's blinded by candles and not because he's trying not to get all weepy again. Shut up.]
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[Greeting cards aren't where he looks for his coolspiration, but alright. He blinks, looking up and after Eichi as he suddenly gets up, honestly surprised at the suddenness of it. It will take him a second to realize he can write in privacy now...
Ah. Well. Here he is, left alone with a lantern and however many minutes it takes Eichi to do whatever it is he claims he's doing. Noctis spends these minutes staring down into the open top of the lantern at the candle flame inside, watching it flicker like that will give him the power to put to words all the things he could never say to his father. Things he didn't have time to say, questions he couldn't ask—
In the end it's those same words that stick in his mind and all he can think of to write is a response, very simple, under the word 'Dad': 'I'm doing everything I can.'
And then smaller, accompanied by a scribble where he almost crossed the whole line out but decided against it, 'I miss you.'
That lantern is super gone whenever Eichi decides to return, and Noctis is sitting there looking up with his hands over his face because he's blinded by candles and not because he's trying not to get all weepy again. Shut up.]