I absolutely adored this. I really enjoyed your writing style, and it really complemented the content of this piece. This is an angle of post-series Roy I hadn't thought to consider, nor have I ever seen anyone else try to play it out. Of course that fear and memory of having his vision stolen is still there, and of course Riza is able to combat it with simple actions. Well done.

*girly squeal* i love your style so much! It's poetic, expressive, beautiful-and it suits royai perfectly. Fantastic job.

This is so perfect! Wonderfully described their relationship here. How she'd hold him steady when he's falling and no matter what, he'd always come back to her and no one else when he is in need.
Thank you for the amazing piece of work.

That was really good ;)
Great work.

I'm afraid, I am much, much, MUCH too moved by what I have just read here, to do it any justice in a review. For that, I apologize - sincerely. However, I am compelled to write a review, insufficient as it IS , to tell you how brilliantly, beautifully, achingly spectacular this piece is. You captured something here, that I haven't seen very many others grasp correctly. The deeply buried, ever present, and lurking vulnerability of a STRONG man, who has been traumatized, REPEATEDLY.

(I apologize for the all caps emphasis found here; really, I would prefer italics, but the review box doesn't support them. The only genuine all caps moment should be the third 'much' in my first sentence. All the other instances, should be considered to be italics in disguise, please.)

I have been trying to decide if I have a favorite line, or section that I could comment on, but I can't seem to choose any part of this over the rest. I adore the whole thing. I suppose, the characterization might be a favorite part for me, since I am very picky about that. Still, the whole thing is so remarkable, that I can't even allow myself to say that is my one favorite thing. Your handle on Riza's character (painted through her literal actions, and the ocean deep LACK of dialogue - which is PERFECT for these two people), is flawless. As to Roy, I can see him doing just what you have him doing here, trying to weather the storm alone. I think he would react just this way to the realization that he NEEDS to let someone in to help. He's proud, but I don't think he's truly haughty. He's concerned with Riza's estimation of him as a man, so naturally he'd struggle with allowing her to help him. I love the WAY you have him speak, when he does speak at all. Just enough words choked out, to convey what Riza needs to know. No one else would be able to read between the lines like she can, so his inability to say everything he needs to aloud is natural and it works to further highlight the bond they have. She doesn't need more words than he can get out, in order to be completely comforting to him.

Good grief, I think the review might become longer than the story, if I allow myself to continue.

I will end by saying that I could keep praising this work until I run out of adjectives, and it STILL wouldn't tell you all of the ways that I enjoyed reading this. Thank you so much for sharing it with us all! I hope to see more of your work very soon, so keep it coming please. If everything you write is like this, then I will likely DEVOUR anything, and everything, that you post. :)

Now that...that was the very epitome of the phrase commonly used to express such overwhelming feelings of warmth and some might say "cute": Awww...

Really beautiful. What is the translation for the title?

That was beautiful! Simply beautiful!