Honestly, Lloyd stopped crying like fifteen minutes ago but Anna is still holding him in a hug and he can't really bring himself to pull away. It feels so weird to finally be able to hug his mother, a mother he never really got the chance to talk to, and now that he has the ability to do so, he's. Well, he's hesitant, the feeling that he's going to stand and blink and all of this will be ripped away from him pressing deep into his chest, an anvil on any sort of mood he could carry. So he just ignores it for as long as he can, keeps curled up on Anna and talks to her.
He can hear the others in the distance, and he enhances his hearing just the slightest bit when Sheena speaks, making sure she's doing alright, but he just - can't focus on them when he's enjoying something he's never been able to call his before: Anna's presence.
He doesn't actually talk to Anna about what he knows she's curious or worried about, doesn't bring up exspheres or his own Anna, doesn't even acknowledge Kratos' existence because the last thing he wants to do is to show her how fucked up her alternate universe son's life is, how badly he wishes he could turn back time and start all over because it's hard to wake up in the morning and hard to sleep during the night.
Instead, he talks about small things. He loves red but hates tomatoes, adores walking through nature after a fresh rain but hates the rain itself, loves his friends more than he could ever really describe. No, he never finished school, but his best friend's sister was an excellent teacher and helped him learn what he needed to know to survive in their world.
Small things, tidbits about himself that anyone who saw him grow up would know, but. This Anna didn't see him grow up, and neither did his own, so instead they just share little fun facts about themselves. It's like a game of twenty questions, he asks a question, she answers, she asks a question, he answers.
Malos does come, eventually, and Lloyd decides that yeah, I should probably try to sleep. Now that he knows Sheena is alright, that she's here and he can reach out to her, he thinks maybe he'll have a little bit more luck than he did for the week prior to today. He tries to stand up, unwrapping himself from Anna's hug, but finds resistance.
[lloyd voice] mmmmoooooooommmmmmm
He can hear the others in the distance, and he enhances his hearing just the slightest bit when Sheena speaks, making sure she's doing alright, but he just - can't focus on them when he's enjoying something he's never been able to call his before: Anna's presence.
He doesn't actually talk to Anna about what he knows she's curious or worried about, doesn't bring up exspheres or his own Anna, doesn't even acknowledge Kratos' existence because the last thing he wants to do is to show her how fucked up her alternate universe son's life is, how badly he wishes he could turn back time and start all over because it's hard to wake up in the morning and hard to sleep during the night.
Instead, he talks about small things. He loves red but hates tomatoes, adores walking through nature after a fresh rain but hates the rain itself, loves his friends more than he could ever really describe. No, he never finished school, but his best friend's sister was an excellent teacher and helped him learn what he needed to know to survive in their world.
Small things, tidbits about himself that anyone who saw him grow up would know, but. This Anna didn't see him grow up, and neither did his own, so instead they just share little fun facts about themselves. It's like a game of twenty questions, he asks a question, she answers, she asks a question, he answers.
Malos does come, eventually, and Lloyd decides that yeah, I should probably try to sleep. Now that he knows Sheena is alright, that she's here and he can reach out to her, he thinks maybe he'll have a little bit more luck than he did for the week prior to today. He tries to stand up, unwrapping himself from Anna's hug, but finds resistance.
Lloyd laughs. "Mooommmmm. I gotta get up."