[Kaz only catches a beat or two of the story. In a way, he regrets sharing some of his own feelings on love, then. Being the awkward romantic that he is, with this notion that love can exist anywhere, even surrounded by blood and death. It's enough to build some regret.]
[What he pays keen attention to is that shadow, watching it carefully, working out ways in which he would have to defend himself if it came near to him. Nyx is out of the way, and they'd be safe if he had to do it, so he keeps his hand clutched around a the "lighter" in his pocket. One of the gifts Harry left him.]
[But then, during the span of a bleary blink, it's gone. And he lets his fingers loosen.]
[He coughs up more blood, takes a ragged, desperate breath, and stands with his back pressed against the wall for leverage.] It's gone. [He manages to say loud enough to carry. He wants to add "or it hid", but he's hit with another violent coughing fit.]
[For a ludicrous moment, in the midst of all this emotional turmoil and tension, of heartache and pain and blood and tiny pocketed destruction, Kaz is really glad he didn't wear his nice stuff. It's not too terrible a consideration, though, considering who the rescue mission was for.]
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[What he pays keen attention to is that shadow, watching it carefully, working out ways in which he would have to defend himself if it came near to him. Nyx is out of the way, and they'd be safe if he had to do it, so he keeps his hand clutched around a the "lighter" in his pocket. One of the gifts Harry left him.]
[But then, during the span of a bleary blink, it's gone. And he lets his fingers loosen.]
[He coughs up more blood, takes a ragged, desperate breath, and stands with his back pressed against the wall for leverage.] It's gone. [He manages to say loud enough to carry. He wants to add "or it hid", but he's hit with another violent coughing fit.]
[For a ludicrous moment, in the midst of all this emotional turmoil and tension, of heartache and pain and blood and tiny pocketed destruction, Kaz is really glad he didn't wear his nice stuff. It's not too terrible a consideration, though, considering who the rescue mission was for.]