Keaton: ::His frown matches hers, brow quirking at her faked smile, and he replies:: Who was going around messing around with other guys, Sophie? Who was hurting somebody that badly? Did you think Charna was? ::His brow raises a little further at this thought.::
Sophie: ::She sighed and looked at him.:: Well she wasn't doing Hanzo any good by allowing him to fawn over her.
Keaton: It wasn't a matter of letting him, ::he sighs.:: He did it, he was going to keep at it until it wore him out, and she didn't let it get in the way of their friendship. Would I have handled things differently? Yeah, a little... not terribly. ::He shakes his head.:: Things like that are better left alone unless someone's really getting hurt - and best I can tell, all brother felt were the aches of puppy-love. ::He looks slowly around the room, and he gives the stirrer another spin.:: And what about you, Sophie... what's your bad luck with this? ::His eyes drift back to her.::
Sophie: ::She lowered her head down to her cup.:: I've lost relationships due to some other woman doing puppy love to a man I was seeing. Dispite my attempts to put an end to it, like you, he said it was harmless, until one day, some how, it moved past the puppy love, and I found out about it. I also know how it is to be the one doing the puppy love... It's painful.
Keaton: ::He breathes a slow sigh, lacing his fingers together. The coffee's growing cold, but he can scarcely think about it now.:: Charna's and Hanzo's was harmless... but an affair's not an easy thing to deal with... ::He opens his mouth to continue, and hearing her last remark, falls silent, eyes meeting hers, discerning.:: ...Could it be?
Sophie: ::Her brows furrowed a bit.:: His name is Angel.
Keaton: ::The moment of tension in his face passes as swiftly as it came.:: Angel... He loves another?
Sophie: ::She smiled a little in a huff of a laugh.:: He loves many, but he's a man of light... A Knight of Templar.... as well as a reborn Gabriel.
Keaton: Celibate? ::An eyebrow arches, and he can't help but smile too now. It's a classic story - painful, but one that seems to happen often in Rhy'Din.::
Sophie: He doesn't even have the male reproductive systems or organs.. ::look up at him.:: any relationship that is persued, ends up in ruins.. I enjoyed my time with him, but I know it can never be.
Keaton: ::A whistle of wonder - Angel is gender-neutral.:: ...It's never easy to fall in love with someone, when you know it cannot work. ::There is a twinge of pain in his chest, but it passes. His first few weeks in Rhy'Din were filled with mistakes on his part.::
Sophie: I know... ::She sighed.:: There is even more pain to love when you think it will work, and it doesn't.
Keaton: ::He nods.:: Sometimes... it's inevitable, like a nightmare you have no control over. But feelings change, and hearts move on, even if they still hurt a little. It's in our nature.
Sophie: My first love .... Was the man who raised me in my mothers absence... His name was Xeno.... I was with him, in a relationship with him, for a year before we married. He then grew distant, and was now wrapped up in his lab, creating and destroying life... He began to creep me and my guild out. His duties in the forum began to slack. Thing just started going wrong... He refused to divorce, dispite my pleas, clamed we could work it out... But we couldn't, and I moved out of the castle, went back to living on my own at my cave, and at the guild hall. Months went by, and I hadn't seen him, so I began to see other men. Then one day he comes back, acting as if nothing happened, asking why I hadn't been home and such. He threw me a party, thinking it would make me forget everything he put me through, and that night, I told him I wanted a divorce, and I wasn't going to be with him regardless.... He broke into combat with me, and for the second time in my life with him, he attempted to kill me in battle, it just so happened, that this time, he did.
Keaton: ::His eyebrows raise. He has known this about her, that she died, but never known just how it happened. He has known very few who could say that they've died before... He touches her arm gently.::