From the way Zidane's tail lashes, not to mention the scowl, it grates on him too. "What I wanted to do would have caused a 'diplomatic incident'," he grumbles. "Playing hero is a lot easier than playing politics..."
"You were gone for three years. You were not at the Desert Palace that long. In that time, did it not occur to you that a life spent in the cage with your little canary might not suit you?" Mikoto almost looks faintly amused.
"Why do you keep calling her that? Her name's Garnet," Zidane replies. "And, yeah... I didn't think it would be easy, but I love her. I... really don't know if you can understand that." The only examples he can use as reference are Kuja, Mikoto, Garland, and the empty Genomes before they'd moved in with the Mages, but to him none of the Terrans seemed all that 'normal' emotionally.
The tip of Mikoto's tail flicks slightly before it wraps around her leg. "And yet it took you three years to return, without so much as a letter beforehand to let her know you weren't dead."
"Hey, I'd just found out I came from some creepy parasite planet, nearly got killed in that damned tree, and then had Kuja decide to time-freeze himself or whatever that was. I had a lot to think about," Zidane snaps back. "I couldn't come back until I was sure it would be safe... That I'd be safe. You know what Kuja did. I had to be sure it was because he was crazy and not just some kind of weird Genome thing that would make me go nuts."
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"You were gone for three years. You were not at the Desert Palace that long. In that time, did it not occur to you that a life spent in the cage with your little canary might not suit you?" Mikoto almost looks faintly amused.
"Why do you keep calling her that? Her name's Garnet," Zidane replies. "And, yeah... I didn't think it would be easy, but I love her. I... really don't know if you can understand that." The only examples he can use as reference are Kuja, Mikoto, Garland, and the empty Genomes before they'd moved in with the Mages, but to him none of the Terrans seemed all that 'normal' emotionally.
The tip of Mikoto's tail flicks slightly before it wraps around her leg. "And yet it took you three years to return, without so much as a letter beforehand to let her know you weren't dead."
"Hey, I'd just found out I came from some creepy parasite planet, nearly got killed in that damned tree, and then had Kuja decide to time-freeze himself or whatever that was. I had a lot to think about," Zidane snaps back. "I couldn't come back until I was sure it would be safe... That I'd be safe. You know what Kuja did. I had to be sure it was because he was crazy and not just some kind of weird Genome thing that would make me go nuts."