He released Riku's face and gave a hopeless smile, shaking his head.
"You don't have to sound to reticent about it," he complained good-naturedly. "Look, I'm sorry if it makes you uncomfortable, but I'm not sorry for having nice stuff to say about you, sheesh. I'd make a pretty lousy partner if I couldn't even give you a compliment, what do you take me for?"
Really, Lea had never paid so much attention to someone's looks as he did their personality. Oh, sure, he was just as susceptible to a looker as anybody, gender notwithstanding, at that, but he liked Riku because of who he was, not what he looked like. That wasn't to say he never looked--Riku was a good-looking guy! But that wasn't what kept Lea around, and it never would be.
"Eh," he said then, waving a hand, "arm-yanking isn't my style. Chain-yanking and leg-pulling, however, are completely different." And also just figures of speech. He furrowed his brow a little then. Riku didn't know about her grandma? "Oh... I used to see her with her grandma sometimes, around the castle. Did she not talk about her folks or anything?" he asked, rubbing his chin in thought. "Maybe they didn't survive the trip or something. I always wondered how she got off-world anyhow."
He hadn't known about Gummi Ships at the time--he wasn't even sure if Cid had actually successfully built one back before Gardenfall. So how had Kairi gotten from Garden to the islands?
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"You don't have to sound to reticent about it," he complained good-naturedly. "Look, I'm sorry if it makes you uncomfortable, but I'm not sorry for having nice stuff to say about you, sheesh. I'd make a pretty lousy partner if I couldn't even give you a compliment, what do you take me for?"
Really, Lea had never paid so much attention to someone's looks as he did their personality. Oh, sure, he was just as susceptible to a looker as anybody, gender notwithstanding, at that, but he liked Riku because of who he was, not what he looked like. That wasn't to say he never looked--Riku was a good-looking guy! But that wasn't what kept Lea around, and it never would be.
"Eh," he said then, waving a hand, "arm-yanking isn't my style. Chain-yanking and leg-pulling, however, are completely different." And also just figures of speech. He furrowed his brow a little then. Riku didn't know about her grandma? "Oh... I used to see her with her grandma sometimes, around the castle. Did she not talk about her folks or anything?" he asked, rubbing his chin in thought. "Maybe they didn't survive the trip or something. I always wondered how she got off-world anyhow."
He hadn't known about Gummi Ships at the time--he wasn't even sure if Cid had actually successfully built one back before Gardenfall. So how had Kairi gotten from Garden to the islands?