[Rosekitten]

He was waiting for it, the yelling or whatever was to come. He was expecting the worse. Really he was prepared for it but at the moment he wouldn't be able to handle it and he was going to just walk out before it got worse. Though the words that left the other's lips were not what he was expecting. Sorry? Why did .. he was the one who should be saying sorry. He could have done far worse and he knew he needed to calm down long before it got to that point.

Wait what was Mizuki saying? He stood there listening to the other. Mizuki spoke saying he never knew any other way to train the way he was trained. Though it was what the other went on to say that made Thalion know that Mizuki meant what he was saying and wasn't just trying to agree to save another fight. Forgot Nytria was his son and not just a student. Those words hit more close to home then Mizuki knew, especially with the encounter he had not a mere hour ago.

It was something similar that had caused him to hate his own father so much. The grand fire mage was rough on any of his kids if they had some spark of positional. Thalion never did tell Mizuki exactly why he hated magic as much as he did. Besides the obvious reasons of wanting to avoid it due to that curse, he also had been forced to train it as a child. A method of forced training that never did any good in the long run and it produced the opposite effect of Thalion ever wanting to even think on becoming a mage.

It was the next words that made Thalion wish he had just stayed away from the room though. Asking something like that. Did he really make the other think he wasn't... Thinking over everything that had happened in the past year and a half, seeing as thats when things were at their worse, he didn't really recall when the last time they really did spent time together. His ears dropped a little at the thought of it.

When did they last spend time together besides just being in the same room? Let alone when was the last time they had a just normal conversation. Most of them if not all ended up with them almost to the point of fighting before one or the other walked off. Heck even at nights they were in the same room but seemed miles apart.

He shook his head finally though he wasn't sure how to answer that exactly. "It's..." He sighed finally Mizuki probably reading the frustration behind this already. "It's not you, it's just everything. Over the past three years I have no idea where things started turning around at." Though that hardly answered the question as Mizuki seemed to go back to watching the fireplace with a defeated look on him.

This was when Thalion finally moved and walked over to where the other was. This was when he really saw the bruise on the face of the one he was suppose to love. He was lucky he didn't do worse then just that, there could have been a burn instead or anything. He started to move a hand towards Mizuki's face but as the other flinched he stopped and lowered it taking the hint.

He stepped back a little still having a hint of that temper from before and the flecks were still there so Mizuki had a right to want to avoid him. "I am still happy." He finally said. "Even if I haven't been the best at showing it." Though with that he started to turn a little. "Either way, I'll take my leave for tonight.. maybe we can talk tomorrow."

Though really he was trying to leave the other's sight before the thought of Mizuki flinching from him really got him. It hurt seeing that probably more then he wanted to admit. The last thing he ever wanted to do was hurt the other. Heck in his mind it was better he stayed away from the other until this seemingly lasting effect wore off. If it wore off, he wasn't sure if it would go away or not at this point.

He did pause after managing a few steps as he thought of something he had meant to bring up before. "Just.. maybe take training Nytria a little easier. Belquiri complains of headaches the days you take things too far." That's all he wanted to say. A few days he couldn't even work with the girl because of how hard Mizuki pushed her brother. She tried to struggle through it because she seemed to be a sponge for knowledge but at times he had to tell her to just rest with how badly she cringed and complained of some sudden headache.

He was pretty sure Mizuki saw the two were connected or guessed at it. If not he really had been more blind then he thought. Either way he had said what he needed to and he was going to let the other get some rest without worrying that something was going to happen during the night. Rather that was his plans anyway, maybe check on Nytria and Belquiri who was probably still at her siblings side before he went about trying to find some way to disperse the temper he still seemed to have that he just couldn't shake.