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It says Inbox but honestly this is for all your Shin-bothering needs. He has a dorm room now.

Date: 2022-01-03 12:53 am (UTC)
decrypter: (rules.)
From: [personal profile] decrypter
[in the silence, she feels her guilt prickling at her even more acutely. turning like a gear inside her, clicking slowly as it moves. her head bows a little, and she's quiet until his last words, where she nods. she can keep a secret. she's been keeping secrets. this one wasn't a secret she wanted to keep from him - but as to the circumstances, she can lock that up tight.]

I can.

[she hasn't even once slipped in trying to call him Shin when she should be using Sou.]

Date: 2022-01-03 08:54 am (UTC)
decrypter: (prayer.)
From: [personal profile] decrypter
...I'm so sorry.

[she won't minimize this grief he's carrying by telling him it was inevitable, or most of them was still a victory. those are things he knows, things he feels - but this still hurts. it hurts every time you can't save everyone. it doesn't mean that one won't haunt him like a ghost, a chain about his neck.

instead, she'll exist, reaching to take his other hand, and warm that one as well. it's another injury to patch up, to stitch closed. more blood to lose.]

Date: 2022-01-04 05:08 am (UTC)
decrypter: (shine.)
From: [personal profile] decrypter
It's all right. I'm surprised you didn't ask about it sooner...I mean, it's a little silly, isn't it? To wear them when I don't need them. But...they were a gift from my father, the same as my cane.

[though they had come later, more as an accessory to feel confident than for any real purpose. the cane had been essential, was so even when it had felt heavier in her hands, and then these...they had talked about "sharing eyes". leave it to him to make such a metaphor real.]

They're his old ones. He said I looked like a proper scholar with them on - I feel they're more like a good luck charm than anything else.
Edited Date: 2022-01-04 05:11 am (UTC)

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