[It's a moment of pretend, and little else. They cannot claim they will be capable of shielding him from every horror, when they were simply never there to do as such for the past...year, or longer.
It was never his fault that the world was a cruelty. If anything, it is theirs for leading him to believe that anything else could be true.
It's not a smile. It's an uneven lift of one side of their mouth, a wry smirk that does not suit them, but perhaps defangs the power of an unmitigated smile by increments.]
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It was never his fault that the world was a cruelty. If anything, it is theirs for leading him to believe that anything else could be true.
It's not a smile. It's an uneven lift of one side of their mouth, a wry smirk that does not suit them, but perhaps defangs the power of an unmitigated smile by increments.]
Always.