"Oh," said Prompto, returning those blinks in a way that someone might think they'd decided to communicate suddenly in morse code. "....really?"
It was hard to tell what he was more surprised about, that Liliana had only gotten those little tidbits or that she hadn't gotten any of them from Ig--
--nope, no, it was definitely the first one, now that he thought about it, and he shook his head a little and sighed and sort of wanted to give Ignis a little shake by the shoulders, except, obviously, he would never.
He might ask Gladio to do it, though.
"Eeesh," he then said, making a face, because he was probably the least equipped to be the one to fill in all those gaps. "Uhh, well, there's....there's definitely a lot more to it than just that. I honestly wouldn't even know where to start. But...Noctis was the Last King of Lucis, and he was destined to save Eos from the Starscourge, that's the stuff that the daemons come from and turned the planet into the Long Night. And me, Iggy, and Gladio, we were his Crownsguard, sworn to serve and protect him..."
Oh, no, Lili, now look what you've done. Prompto was starting to get a little wibbly, though he tried to smile through it. He was trying not to blink, otherwise those tears that were gathering in his eyes might actually start falling, and then what would she think of him? She came in just to get stuff for her cat, and was getting a big sentimental softie Prompto instead....
"...ever at his side..."
Maybe the soft laugh he tried would help bolster him against getting too emotional, too. Probably not, but worth a shot...
"Kinda hard to do, you know, when he's trapped in a crystal, but, eventually, he came back, we stormed the city that had been taken from us, fought the god trying to stop us, and then sent Noct in to face the immortal asshole who started this whole thing, and..."
A shrug.
"That kind of brings us up to a year ago, when we all started showing up back here. I didn't even get to see how the battle finished. All of a sudden, there was just this blinding burst of white light, I covered my eyes, and when I opened them again, I was back here for the first time in ten years, only it had only been a few months that had passed by here. A couple weeks later, Gladio showed up, and then Ignis. I mean, it kind of made sense for me, I've got a really deep history here, and it turns out, my girlfriend was actually pregnant, so I kind of feel like, now that I'd done what we were meant to back on Eos, I was needed here now, but it felt like kind of a bum deal for them, you know?"
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It was hard to tell what he was more surprised about, that Liliana had only gotten those little tidbits or that she hadn't gotten any of them from Ig--
--nope, no, it was definitely the first one, now that he thought about it, and he shook his head a little and sighed and sort of wanted to give Ignis a little shake by the shoulders, except, obviously, he would never.
He might ask Gladio to do it, though.
"Eeesh," he then said, making a face, because he was probably the least equipped to be the one to fill in all those gaps. "Uhh, well, there's....there's definitely a lot more to it than just that. I honestly wouldn't even know where to start. But...Noctis was the Last King of Lucis, and he was destined to save Eos from the Starscourge, that's the stuff that the daemons come from and turned the planet into the Long Night. And me, Iggy, and Gladio, we were his Crownsguard, sworn to serve and protect him..."
Oh, no, Lili, now look what you've done. Prompto was starting to get a little wibbly, though he tried to smile through it. He was trying not to blink, otherwise those tears that were gathering in his eyes might actually start falling, and then what would she think of him? She came in just to get stuff for her cat, and was getting a big sentimental softie Prompto instead....
"...ever at his side..."
Maybe the soft laugh he tried would help bolster him against getting too emotional, too. Probably not, but worth a shot...
"Kinda hard to do, you know, when he's trapped in a crystal, but, eventually, he came back, we stormed the city that had been taken from us, fought the god trying to stop us, and then sent Noct in to face the immortal asshole who started this whole thing, and..."
A shrug.
"That kind of brings us up to a year ago, when we all started showing up back here. I didn't even get to see how the battle finished. All of a sudden, there was just this blinding burst of white light, I covered my eyes, and when I opened them again, I was back here for the first time in ten years, only it had only been a few months that had passed by here. A couple weeks later, Gladio showed up, and then Ignis. I mean, it kind of made sense for me, I've got a really deep history here, and it turns out, my girlfriend was actually pregnant, so I kind of feel like, now that I'd done what we were meant to back on Eos, I was needed here now, but it felt like kind of a bum deal for them, you know?"