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“Oh.” Elijah voiced his surprise as he gave a quick glance to the artifact and then back at Chloe. Normally, he would, of course, get mad. But, he was sure that Chloe didn't mean harm. Nodding, he took it and glanced over at her.

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He doesn’t know why it hits him, but it does, and if he’d not had more self-awareness he’d have flinched at the dismissal. The sting of it doesn’t reflect in his eyes. 

He’s grown used to repressing his feelings. Its what made him able to stand toe to toe across from humans spewing prejudice and remain calm enough to refrain from violence. It’s what made him able for years to conceal his anguish at Carl’s seemingly imminently declining health. It’s part of what made him a leader, except that he hated the necessity of it. Hiding, behind any mask, wasn’t what he was.

He blinked, brow furrowing lightly between his mismatched gaze.

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“Ah…” 

She does this without much hesitation and he cannot help but be flustered by it. There is no insinuation towards anything more, and Ignis certainly doesn’t wish to go down that path, but he is wholly discomforted by the fact that a lady would stand so close to him. It’s not as if he is repulsed, no, but more-so he’s not certain what to do with himself. And, in thinking that, he inwardly hopes he has not offended her in the sudden jerk of his form at her actions. 

He truly should be used to this by now.

“Apologies. Thank you for the assistance.”

He lets curve his lips, at the very least, if only to ease reassurance into the android’s frame of mind. He wholly does not wish to offend.

It’s strange, though, how anyone can think that she is anything but a human. He knows of course, though that does not mean he rejects how life-like she is. He wonders, briefly, what she wants. If she can want. Viridian eyes scan her features for a moment, tongue curling to put forth the question in the end.

Far be it from him to doubt the android’s words though he has a nagging feeling that that isn’t all to the story. After all, androids are infamously treated as tools here and Ignis knows a vast amount of his respected peers bear the same ideology. The younger generation, at least, have some modicum of sense towards how life-like, how human, they seem to be, and Ignis is of no exception to that view.