There's a keenness to his eyes that he blinks away in the space of a breath, something sharp and edged that he tosses aside with a studied air of carelessness nevertheless solid and abrupt as a shield lifting between them. "Then you won't mind."
He's happy to see Tyrion alive, and (visibly, at the least) unharmed.
He is quite sure that sentiment is neither welcomed, nor mutual, but he stops when he reaches his brother nonetheless, right arm moving to his hip out of long habit, making him grimace when the lump of metal at the end misses a hilt no longer there to meet. His instincts are still all wrong.
He's not sure they'll ever be right again, but then, perhaps they never were. It isn't for him to ponder: Tyrion was always the thinker, Jaime the sword.
Neither is he prone to second-guessing past mistakes, though it niggles at him, lodging like grit in the empty space where his sword should be, in the sore joint between his stump and the golden lump pretending to be his hand. "Would you like me to apologize?"
Re: Tyrion Lannister | ASOIAF | Option 3
There's a keenness to his eyes that he blinks away in the space of a breath, something sharp and edged that he tosses aside with a studied air of carelessness nevertheless solid and abrupt as a shield lifting between them. "Then you won't mind."
He's happy to see Tyrion alive, and (visibly, at the least) unharmed.
He is quite sure that sentiment is neither welcomed, nor mutual, but he stops when he reaches his brother nonetheless, right arm moving to his hip out of long habit, making him grimace when the lump of metal at the end misses a hilt no longer there to meet. His instincts are still all wrong.
He's not sure they'll ever be right again, but then, perhaps they never were. It isn't for him to ponder: Tyrion was always the thinker, Jaime the sword.
Neither is he prone to second-guessing past mistakes, though it niggles at him, lodging like grit in the empty space where his sword should be, in the sore joint between his stump and the golden lump pretending to be his hand. "Would you like me to apologize?"