Alfor can understand the feeling behind that response, and would hardly fault Shiro for it. He'd argue that the emotion isn't purely human. ...whatever that is.
He can be happy for Shiro then, and it's exactly that sentiment that shows in the small smile that touches his face. "I see," he says, although the following mention does have him blink a moment. "Coran as well? Well, I am glad to know that he has been by her side, current circumstances notwithstanding." A shame he'd gone, for Alfor knows no other capable of lightening moods, but if he's gone home, then all the better. Maybe they would all follow suite.
Then again, matters might not be so simple as that, even outside of their current circumstances. And it's so very hard not to ask pertinent questions regarding the place they should be than the place that they are. Small talk. Small talk is a difficult thing to come up with, and the awkward silence that lapses after his last words just seems to be all the more prominent as the Altean king tries to come up with something.
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He can be happy for Shiro then, and it's exactly that sentiment that shows in the small smile that touches his face. "I see," he says, although the following mention does have him blink a moment. "Coran as well? Well, I am glad to know that he has been by her side, current circumstances notwithstanding." A shame he'd gone, for Alfor knows no other capable of lightening moods, but if he's gone home, then all the better. Maybe they would all follow suite.
Then again, matters might not be so simple as that, even outside of their current circumstances. And it's so very hard not to ask pertinent questions regarding the place they should be than the place that they are. Small talk. Small talk is a difficult thing to come up with, and the awkward silence that lapses after his last words just seems to be all the more prominent as the Altean king tries to come up with something.