[Yes, yes, Noct can give him that look all he likes. However, Ignis will keep quiet silent on the matter for as long as he's allowed. And it seems like this time he will be allowed for a little while yet.]
[Just a little while. Really, he doesn't plan on keeping it a secret for very long, so long as Gladio agrees with him on the matter.]
[But it just doesn't seem like the kind of thing which they could really hold up in the long term.]
[Right?]
[Noctis seems to think similar, although in a slightly different direction considering he stumbles and looks embarrassed as he admits to something that Ignis knew would come a very long time ago. Still, to hear that it's come to pass, that Noctis can find some measure of happiness... It has him smiling a bit.]
[There's not quite any time to congratulate him on the matter, however. Not before there's a sigh, and Noctis's warm palm on his arm.]
...I knew that it would get better. I did. But it really does try a man's patience, sometimes, when all you want to do is speed towards the result. [He raises a hand up, fingers brushing against Noctis's knuckles.] Do I apologize, then? For suspecting there was such an issues, but never knowing how to approach it, and so doing nothing?
[Because sometimes, even with the suspicions, the knowledge he'd looked up... If he told Noctis of it, would tempers flare up again, and another argument would be had? It was something he worried about, and which none of his lessons ever covered.]
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[Just a little while. Really, he doesn't plan on keeping it a secret for very long, so long as Gladio agrees with him on the matter.]
[But it just doesn't seem like the kind of thing which they could really hold up in the long term.]
[Right?]
[Noctis seems to think similar, although in a slightly different direction considering he stumbles and looks embarrassed as he admits to something that Ignis knew would come a very long time ago. Still, to hear that it's come to pass, that Noctis can find some measure of happiness... It has him smiling a bit.]
[There's not quite any time to congratulate him on the matter, however. Not before there's a sigh, and Noctis's warm palm on his arm.]
...I knew that it would get better. I did. But it really does try a man's patience, sometimes, when all you want to do is speed towards the result. [He raises a hand up, fingers brushing against Noctis's knuckles.] Do I apologize, then? For suspecting there was such an issues, but never knowing how to approach it, and so doing nothing?
[Because sometimes, even with the suspicions, the knowledge he'd looked up... If he told Noctis of it, would tempers flare up again, and another argument would be had? It was something he worried about, and which none of his lessons ever covered.]