Darius, startled by his own outrageous thoughts, turned his gaze to Xion.
The healer sat quietly, seemingly lost in his own world as his fingers idly traced patterns on the extra pillow resting on his lap.
Darius had asked for those. Xion tended to be in a daze, and that would always lead him foolishly bumping himself here and there.
At least, now his back would not hurt.
The archduke had never been one to let others affect his mood, yet Xion, without even trying seemed to do just that.
The healer had a way of slipping past his defences, planting himself into Darius' thoughts and disrupting his carefully maintained control.
Xion blinked. A slight frown crept onto his forehead before he began biting his lip.
What is making you look so troubled?
Darius' hand twitched, and a strange impulse rose within him. An urge to reach out, to break Xion's quiet contemplation, to make him look his way again.