[The words come a little wry, a little sharp, past implications rising up in him, the promise of someone he still thinks of as his brother and how it had been more than broken - shattered, obliterated - the moment Heine had torn Lily apart and left Giovanni himself there for dead. But there are other feelings in him, something sharp and hot that threatens to steal his breath, an open wound behind his ribs that he doesn't quite know how to name. Because there's something in it, even now, despite everything. Despite losses past and current, his own sense of wariness. There's still something to hearing someone say they're here for him, that they have his back, when it's a thing he's desperately longed for but never believed he can have.
He withdraws his hand, slowly. And though his heart thuds a little hard in his chest, his exterior is smooth and collected as ever.]
And that's all there is to it, as simple as that? I don't have to do...anything?
[Not that he has any idea what one would do to cement a pack bond.]
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[The words come a little wry, a little sharp, past implications rising up in him, the promise of someone he still thinks of as his brother and how it had been more than broken - shattered, obliterated - the moment Heine had torn Lily apart and left Giovanni himself there for dead. But there are other feelings in him, something sharp and hot that threatens to steal his breath, an open wound behind his ribs that he doesn't quite know how to name. Because there's something in it, even now, despite everything. Despite losses past and current, his own sense of wariness. There's still something to hearing someone say they're here for him, that they have his back, when it's a thing he's desperately longed for but never believed he can have.
He withdraws his hand, slowly. And though his heart thuds a little hard in his chest, his exterior is smooth and collected as ever.]
And that's all there is to it, as simple as that? I don't have to do...anything?
[Not that he has any idea what one would do to cement a pack bond.]