He makes a little noise when he's squeezed harder, breathing just wasn't a priority to him at the moment. It was more important to impress upon Noct how he felt about this, and he was just devastated.

Prompto just nodded, keeping quiet on the matter for the moment, just because he didn't say it, didn't mean he didn't think it. He was the spare man in the group and he knew it.

He was fine with it, until Noct he'd always been the forgotten, the one left behind and he knew they'd be fine if the Astrals took him instead. He didn't know how to go about proposing this to them, however.

"Good. I mean. Really good. I don't want you to have to-" He swallowed. The crystal wasn't there, wasn't that why?

"I can't promise that, Noct."