[Well it wasn't like he didn't see this coming. It's happened too many times before for him to be too disappointed but he had no right to expect anything of course. His own doing by choice. He hesitates a bit before taking Miles' hand, opening the link.
Only now his mindscape was a lot more ordered from the few days before when he had last opened a link with Miles--less raw emotion lurking around, only slight barely-there traces of his disappointment leaking through. He had been working on his meditation and concentration quite thoroughly recently. There's still the general warmth that he now seems to allow through instead of it just existing everywhere all at once.]
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Only now his mindscape was a lot more ordered from the few days before when he had last opened a link with Miles--less raw emotion lurking around, only slight barely-there traces of his disappointment leaking through. He had been working on his meditation and concentration quite thoroughly recently. There's still the general warmth that he now seems to allow through instead of it just existing everywhere all at once.]
Figured as much.