Then I'll just have to think really hard to figure out something you'll like anyway.

[Too late, Zelos, Lloyd's already got the idea in his head. You're getting a gift, one way or another.]

Yeah, you're right.

[And he's too clueless to see past that mask, to realize what Zelos is feeling deep down. To realize that even as Zelos is trying to cheer him up by reminding him about what he has, the redhead is have to face what he doesn't have, will never have, life's unfairness shoved in his face. Lloyd grins, oblivious.]

Thanks, Zelos. I think I needed that.