[Ardyn wasn't sure what he expected in response, but that was last on the list of possibilities. Not just last, but somewhere around the most distant and least likely outcome after a few hundred other options. Shock was the prevailing emotion, dulled as it felt; if he'd been in full possession of his emotions, Ardyn would have reacted with much more than the faint look of surprise and startled silence that met Church as he pulled back.]
[It wasn't quite the very human confusion of Ardyn Lucis Caelum that was staring at him and trying to process the situation, but it wasn't the cold fury of Ardyn Izunia either.]
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[It wasn't quite the very human confusion of Ardyn Lucis Caelum that was staring at him and trying to process the situation, but it wasn't the cold fury of Ardyn Izunia either.]
Did...you just...?