Guy is grateful he isn't called in right away. As soon as his back is facing Luke, his mask well and truly shatters on the floor, and he needs the time to compose himself. It had been a while since he'd seen someone close to him in anything resembling a military uniform.
After his interviews - which also require composing himself, and really that dance is nothing new, the constant composing himself between interactions - he takes a deep, filling breath when he sees Luke across the room. He's started to take some of Luke's changes for granted, he realizes - here he was sending Luke to wait for him and knowing he would actually stay there, instead of getting impatient and demanding, or storming off entirely.
"Thanks for waiting," he offers when he's close enough - the phrase would be causal with anyone else, but with Luke it was a compliment, really.
Re: Guy Cecil | Tales of the Abyss
Guy is grateful he isn't called in right away. As soon as his back is facing Luke, his mask well and truly shatters on the floor, and he needs the time to compose himself. It had been a while since he'd seen someone close to him in anything resembling a military uniform.
After his interviews - which also require composing himself, and really that dance is nothing new, the constant composing himself between interactions - he takes a deep, filling breath when he sees Luke across the room. He's started to take some of Luke's changes for granted, he realizes - here he was sending Luke to wait for him and knowing he would actually stay there, instead of getting impatient and demanding, or storming off entirely.
"Thanks for waiting," he offers when he's close enough - the phrase would be causal with anyone else, but with Luke it was a compliment, really.