[There's a response, but it isn't coherent enough to really explain anything, just some low mumbling. As such, she doesn't try to stop him from picking her up, but...the moment he does he might feel she's actually trembling. It's not anything more than what someone would usually be like after something distressing happens to them, but really, this isn't a usual person, making such a normal response to something all the more worrying.
The strangest thing about it all is...well, Hikaru was always meant to make people think vulnerability, sure. Like she was naive, too cheerful, too friendly or unused to the war going on all around them - but she always carried herself with such confidence it seemed like trying to instill this kind of fear into her wouldn't work. The kind of person whose head you could threaten to rip right off and she'd kill the tension by dismissing it with an inappropriate response.
But now, the girl he's carrying is a small, frightened thing. Unable to defend that image of That Which Is Feared rather than That Which Fears, it lays in his arms almost powerless and shaken to it's core, trembling and mumbling beyond it's control. Her eyes tightly shut and jaw clenched, alongside the distress clear in her expression, only now does "Hikaru" seem truly vulnerable. Lucifer just never wanted it like this.]
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The strangest thing about it all is...well, Hikaru was always meant to make people think vulnerability, sure. Like she was naive, too cheerful, too friendly or unused to the war going on all around them - but she always carried herself with such confidence it seemed like trying to instill this kind of fear into her wouldn't work. The kind of person whose head you could threaten to rip right off and she'd kill the tension by dismissing it with an inappropriate response.
But now, the girl he's carrying is a small, frightened thing. Unable to defend that image of That Which Is Feared rather than That Which Fears, it lays in his arms almost powerless and shaken to it's core, trembling and mumbling beyond it's control. Her eyes tightly shut and jaw clenched, alongside the distress clear in her expression, only now does "Hikaru" seem truly vulnerable. Lucifer just never wanted it like this.]