just say there is nothing holding you back

He struggled to understand how Hika wanted to see nothing past Mortis himself. It was as though he put the winged heir onto a pedestal. It worried him, that Hika had nothing beyond Mortis. How could Mortis ever compete with the perfect person his friend seemed to think he was? Could he really be anything and everything that Hika needed in life?

The idea frightened him, and he could almost feel himself withdrawing. Surely there had to be something elses that mattered to his friend. There was more to the world than Mortis. He felt a feeling flutter in his chest, a sort of frightfulness. He looked down at Hika’s sweet, hopeful expression, and knew he could never be the perfect person Hika thought he was.

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