[By no means does he want to disregard his friend's personal comfort, but it's the least he can do to help out. It was his fault he lost an arm to begin with, becoming an extra arm for him is something he's more than happy to do.
His gaze flickers downwards for a split second before forcing himself to look at the other man in the eye. Luna tries to keep his face neutral, but there's twitches and small tells implying clearly where his eye had looked before focusing on his friend's own nervous eyes. Luna is most definitely not an expert in an athlete's dietary and routine, but Mallory has always had a strong build that not even famine and despair got through him to destroy it completely. No, what breaks the illusion that the former boxer had been unbeatable had Luna's own doing.
Try to ignore as much as he can, even with his eye trained to look at Mallory's face instead of what's below, there's a strange pull to it tempting him to look down again. The only thing stopping him is the heavy guilt weighing in his shoulders and heart, against the morbid curiosity that's naturally programmed in his brain; the part of him curios to see how much damage he has done to the person he care about.
Fighting the urges, he adds;]
Though, only if you feel like it's alright, I don't want to trouble you.
[Frankly, he's done enough to cause this whole issue to begin with.]
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[By no means does he want to disregard his friend's personal comfort, but it's the least he can do to help out. It was his fault he lost an arm to begin with, becoming an extra arm for him is something he's more than happy to do.
His gaze flickers downwards for a split second before forcing himself to look at the other man in the eye. Luna tries to keep his face neutral, but there's twitches and small tells implying clearly where his eye had looked before focusing on his friend's own nervous eyes. Luna is most definitely not an expert in an athlete's dietary and routine, but Mallory has always had a strong build that not even famine and despair got through him to destroy it completely. No, what breaks the illusion that the former boxer had been unbeatable had Luna's own doing.
Try to ignore as much as he can, even with his eye trained to look at Mallory's face instead of what's below, there's a strange pull to it tempting him to look down again. The only thing stopping him is the heavy guilt weighing in his shoulders and heart, against the morbid curiosity that's naturally programmed in his brain; the part of him curios to see how much damage he has done to the person he care about.
Fighting the urges, he adds;]
Though, only if you feel like it's alright, I don't want to trouble you.
[Frankly, he's done enough to cause this whole issue to begin with.]