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As much as he was trained and experienced in reading people, Simon wasn’t a full legilimens. So, he wasn’t aware of what all truly was going on in the other man’s thoughts, or more likely memories. The emotion, however, was clearly visible to him even before the tears in the minister’s eyes and he almost thought to leave and not interrupt the musically aided contemplation despite the fact that the open-door spoke of welcome. He may have been privy to times in Hollingberry’s life, both through moments they spent together and memories shared with him by Charles, Kurumi or Ryo, but still there were things left private.
On second thought he stayed not able to pull himself away. He stayed, not entirely sure if his companion was aware of his presence. Even when the man he often considered like a second father figure spoke again it wasn’t automatically clear if it was to him or a ghost in his mind’s eyes. Was Charles seeing him or one of the boys now men that he had often been compared with by his sister.
“So true…” he quietly remarked in agreement breaking his silence, his head bowed slightly catching brief glimpses of his own memories with a smile. The younger man having his own fair share of memories tied to music and sound. The roars of the pep rallies in school…the songs both sung to and heard from his own children…the happier moments of his career and adulthood. “Sometimes even moreso than sight and smells.”
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