[ Break looks at his hand, but then quickly looks up to where he would imagine Gilbert would be standing based on the brush of those ghostly fingers. It immediately has his throat feel like it's closing up, and it has nothing to do with the death shocks. He stares, wide-eyed at nothing, but after a moment, his eye grows glassy as a tear forms. For Xerxes Break, this is the sort of weakness that he never shows. Even when Break was faced with terrible things, he never shed a tear over them. Whether he had lost the ability to or simply pushed it away, it as simply something he didn't do.
Yet the expression on his face is overwhelming relief. He's shocked, but so relieved, and he takes a breath to speak that's shaky and tenuous. It sounds weak and frail, even to his own ears. ]
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Yet the expression on his face is overwhelming relief. He's shocked, but so relieved, and he takes a breath to speak that's shaky and tenuous. It sounds weak and frail, even to his own ears. ]