Trowa watches, unmoving, as the elegant instrument crashes to the ground in what appears to his mind to be a kind of slow motion; his eyes are all that follow its path downward, and only one of them visible at that.
He isn't sure why the sight hurts him. Perhaps he's picked up enough knowledge from Quatre to know how expensive violins can get. Maybe some part of him steals Soundwave's suspicion about the blond for himself. Or it could be that such a display was never one he intended to cause. There are a million possible reasons, so it doesn't really matter in the long run that it's because Soundwave is once again throwing aside something good in favor of fighting; the effect is the same, whatever the answer.
Oddly, it isn't a weapon that Trowa pulls free from the long, thin case hanging horizontally against the side of one of the guns.
Not by the usual definition, at least.
The boy closes his eyes, treats himself to a comfortable seat on the floor, and after a few seconds of silence calmly begins to play a distant, melancholy tune on a battered old flute (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h00Dc9u4esE#t=00m21s)--not faltering despite being unable to hear himself.
/finally finds suitable music god
He isn't sure why the sight hurts him. Perhaps he's picked up enough knowledge from Quatre to know how expensive violins can get. Maybe some part of him steals Soundwave's suspicion about the blond for himself. Or it could be that such a display was never one he intended to cause. There are a million possible reasons, so it doesn't really matter in the long run that it's because Soundwave is once again throwing aside something good in favor of fighting; the effect is the same, whatever the answer.
Oddly, it isn't a weapon that Trowa pulls free from the long, thin case hanging horizontally against the side of one of the guns.
Not by the usual definition, at least.
The boy closes his eyes, treats himself to a comfortable seat on the floor, and after a few seconds of silence calmly begins to play a distant, melancholy tune on a battered old flute (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h00Dc9u4esE#t=00m21s)--not faltering despite being unable to hear himself.