Title: Aha
Series: Slayers
Words: 127
Notes: I'm lame.
As long as she smiles like that, all is right with the world. It doesn't take a genius to understand this; just Gourry.
Being around Lina is like being trapped on a boat with a lion: if you survive, you learn how to keep surviving, and pretty soon you start realizing what makes the lion happy and what makes it bite your hands. Not that Lina bites Gourry's hands often.
But the point is, Gourry understands Lina likes gold, food, good drink, warm beds, her privacy; the point is, Gourry is as close to understanding Lina as anyone is. He knows when she smiles, she's happy, and when she's happy, Gourry isn't in a world of pain.
He figures this is why it matters that she smile.