[This time Gai does lift his eyes to meet her gaze and holds it, his eyes almost luminescent in the pale light of the room. He can't argue with her there-- it's intimate in a way that mere touch can't possibly hope to be.]
Like this, you mean?
[Even when his expression is gentle, he can't hide the intensity of his eyes. Many people found them unnerving for exactly that reason; he'd heard phrases like "It looks like he's looking straight into your soul" bandied around before when his men thought he wasn't listening. And, in a way, he was, if the person in question possessed a Void. Here, though, his eyes are just normal, albeit vivid, ones.]
You're one of the few people who has ever said they liked it when I looked them in the eye.
September 26th - The Marathon
Like this, you mean?
[Even when his expression is gentle, he can't hide the intensity of his eyes. Many people found them unnerving for exactly that reason; he'd heard phrases like "It looks like he's looking straight into your soul" bandied around before when his men thought he wasn't listening. And, in a way, he was, if the person in question possessed a Void. Here, though, his eyes are just normal, albeit vivid, ones.]
You're one of the few people who has ever said they liked it when I looked them in the eye.