Missteps and Revelations

Balthier had already made himself comfortable there beside Azzurra and while she may have seemed a little tense in her first greeted words he was not expecting what would come next.

The surprise and hint of hurt was easily shown on his face from the moment she said, but it only got worse from there. At first he didn’t move. Like he was a statue, like he was in shock. It wasn’t anything he even thought was possible from Azzurra, and for a while it seemed like he was stuck in some sort of trance. "What?" He paused, his voice was neither angry or calm. "I don’t understand. You fucked someone?" In the last bit his tone turned more aggressive as his immediate hurt emotions came out. There wasn’t time, or rather he didn’t give himself time to think in response. He really rather forgot everything she had said surrounding the part that she had been with a man. His thoughts couldn’t even function enough to think that it was even someone in pack.

His rump rose off the sands as his eyes nearly seared into her. He could have been misread as more furious than anything else but his real raw emotions were set on the betrayal that he felt from his sister. He couldn’t understand why she had done it. He didn’t go to say anything else, instead immediately turning away just to get away from her.

"Azzurra & Balthier"