Isuma paused her purring to chortle happily at the attention, then leaned precariously forward to watch Deimos's hands with eager curiosity for what he was doing with them, now that his artistic undertaking had been completed. Jigano looked to the other man with a slight tilt to his head, silent askance until he realized that the General was looking at something past him, distant in both time and space. He turned his attention back to his own hands, setting the small scale down as he sat cross-legged on the sand and began to concentrate on the image he had sketched, focusing on bringing it to life.
Well. Life of a sort, at least.
"It was the same for me," he agreed with sad humor, magic coalescing in his hands, bronze and green and crimson swirling together in a bright symphony of silent music in his soul. "I wasn't impressed with him in Sidhe, but I didn't really see him again in more than passing until LongNight. When Caiside... died... Adam came and dragged me out of the morgue. Helped me clean up and... listened. Let me tell him about my friend who had died, even though he hadn't known him." Jigano huffed a soft laugh, filled more with loss than amusement. "He surprised me. I wouldn't have expected such sensitivity from him, from what I'd seen before. But it was there all along, I think, he'd just done his best to hide it."
Well. Life of a sort, at least.
"It was the same for me," he agreed with sad humor, magic coalescing in his hands, bronze and green and crimson swirling together in a bright symphony of silent music in his soul. "I wasn't impressed with him in Sidhe, but I didn't really see him again in more than passing until LongNight. When Caiside... died... Adam came and dragged me out of the morgue. Helped me clean up and... listened. Let me tell him about my friend who had died, even though he hadn't known him." Jigano huffed a soft laugh, filled more with loss than amusement. "He surprised me. I wouldn't have expected such sensitivity from him, from what I'd seen before. But it was there all along, I think, he'd just done his best to hide it."
