[ The SCA beeps. Tidus's lips move, though Inigo can't tell what he's saying, the words sounding like total gibberish as they come across the other's lips. It'd be a strange experience, if not for the fact that Inigo has already spent an entire day like this before, watching people talk without understanding what's being said. He assumes Tidus is asking if he's alright from context, but since he has no way to be sure, he refrains from answering, just to avoid answering the wrong question.

Instead Inigo grabs his own SCA off the ground, putting it back onto his wrist. For a moment he's quiet, but then he just says: ] Um. So that was.. anticlimactic.

[ To say the least.

But Inigo knows it's not the most important part here. Maybe it would have been better if he did just die there, just fall onto the ground, lifeless. It would have saved him from not knowing what to do now. Not to say. It feels wrong to not address anything that came before this.

But what does he say? Does he want to wait for Tidus to say something first? No - he's already been a coward once today. He can't get two strikes. ]

I.. I'm sorry, Tidus. I must have sounded uncaring a moment ago, when it was just that.. I didn't know what to say. I felt stupidly worried. [ Maybe that's just what he should say. Just the truth, no matter how dumb it is. No matter how stupid Inigo knows his own feelings to be, about 99% of the time. ] It felt like maybe we weren't close enough to share everything after all. And-- I don't mean to say you have to. I mean, part of it is just me being worried about you dealing with everything all by yourself too, no matter how hard it is..

[ This isn't about guilting Tidus, or forcing him, though Inigo worries about it. He just wants to make his feelings clear, to try and keep them from having another dumb misunderstanding. He's learned. He's trying. ]

I just started worrying. [ ... ] You know how I am.