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[fullcursemeal]

I'll talk under one condition.

[thefaultinthestars]

What is it?

[fullcursemeal]

I want to hear your thoughts, too.

[thefaultinthestars]

You're hearing my thoughts right now. On what? The story?

[fullcursemeal]

On the story, yes.

[thefaultinthestars]

...alright? But you first.

[fullcursemeal]

No, you first. What I say will depend on what you have to say.

[fixes the wing that's on his lap and starts re-arranging the feathers he messed up]

[thefaultinthestars]

No way, I asked a while ago.

[fullcursemeal]

[what if he buries his fingers between a bunch of feathers and presses a little at the base, then combing them out thoroughly]

[thefaultinthestars]

[there is a faint shiver at that, and then he glares, petulant]

I don't even know where to start? It happened a long time ago. It was the story that gave me my modifier. It was terrible but it was also amazing? I understand that's a strange way to think of it, but I really don't have any regrets.

[fullcursemeal]

[easing up a bit on the touch, but still working]

I imagine it must have been different to experience it like this, though.

[thefaultinthestars]

It's not like I haven't seen it before.

...but I haven't seen it in a while. Yuseung and Gilyeong were quite small then.

[fullcursemeal]

They're good kids. You'd said it before, but I could finally see it, now.

[thefaultinthestars]

...there's no room to be left out or protected because you're a child when the scenarios start. Naturally there weren't may because they didn't survive. But those two never balked anything I asked of them, right from the beginning.

[fullcursemeal]

Mm... Kids can be pretty serious, when they put their everything into things.

1/2

[thefaultinthestars]

I miss them.

[simply, not even quite sadly but just because there's a reflexive distance in his voice]

[thefaultinthestars]

...I miss all of them.

[fullcursemeal]

... Let's make it so you can see them soon.

[thefaultinthestars]

[blinks a little rapidly as tears were threatening to gather again, and then puts a hand on Curtain's head, redirecting]

Is that enough? If not, you have to give me a hint.

[fullcursemeal]

[buddy,]

I'll talk... and if there's anything else you want to say, you can go ahead and do so, of course.

[he focuses his gaze on Jae's wing again, though he's going mostly by touch here, what with the darkness and black wing and... lack of one eye]

I guess the main thing is that I'm glad you have so many people who care about you.

[thefaultinthestars]

Are you?

[blink blink, the wing rustles against his hand a bit]

It's quite surprising, isn't it?

[fullcursemeal]

No, not at all.

[thefaultinthestars]

[confused squint]

[fullcursemeal]

[without looking at him]

You're making a face.

[thefaultinthestars]

Well it's a strange thing to say.