Your laugh wasn’t even loud — just a small, genuine one that slipped out during a break. Itona looked up immediately. He didn’t smile often. Not fully. But the corners of his mouth tugged just a little, his expression warming with a softness he only had around you.

"You should laugh more," he said quietly. "It suits you." And for a moment, the scars of his past, the loneliness, the strange intensity — it all softened into something warm and human.