🎧 homophonic | pcs | yukichi (fukuzawa)

[silicone]

There's no need to fear the past. The past is just a memory.

(in retrospect i regret my choice of filter name)

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[allmenare]

I'll be there.

[He waits outside the mime cafe though. It's a little freaky, he doesn't want to wait inside.]

[silicone]

♥ see you

[ he will meet him there because yeah, to-go is the best idea for a place like this. it does have some of the better coffee and tea in town so eiden has decided it's worth the sacrifice.

he takes his hand subtly, looking at him with a very small smile. ]

Morning, Yukichi... [ he nods at the door. ] I can go in and get something for you too if you want to stay out here.

[allmenare]

It's alright, I just didn't want to wait in there.

[The mimes are miming a funeral for their fallen mime. So sad.]

[silicone]

I mean, I wouldn't blame you regardless.

[ i hate this. eiden feels so awkward going in during this very dramatic funeral ceremony with silent speeches and weeping.

but it's fine, he'll ignore them and order a coffee! and maybe a sweet pastry because he's worth it. the fact that they don't have to pay is kind of a bonus, really. he leans in to whisper into his ear under his breath ]

They don't look like the mimes I know...

[allmenare]

[He nods in response. The mimes are very weird and he doesn't like them much. So he'll take his coffee and run off with Eiden afterwards. It's only once he's outside that he breathes a sigh of relief.]

I don't like it much in there.

[silicone]

Me neither. I tried to give it a shot the first couple days, but... the mimes got way too creepy for me.

[ he just pats his elbow gently and takes it, steering them just on a nice walk. he squeezes gently. ]

How're you holding up, though? Run into anything this morning?

[allmenare]

A few things in the cemetery. I take it you looked around somewhere as well?

[He seems a touch distracted as they talk, but every time Eiden speaks he tries to give him his attention once more.]

[silicone]

Yeah, the Hooters had some pretty crazy stuff. I'll make sure the report's thorough for tomorrow.

[ of course he can tell fukuzawa is somewhere else from time to time, and he nudges him a little. ]

Hey... what's going on, hm? You seem a little distracted. [ a beat ] You know you can talk to me...

[allmenare]

...It's nothing, just a thought.

[A thought about the clues from the cemetery, the fire, the strange arrangement of objects in an unusually perfect semi-circle...]

It just feels like... today is going to be the last day we can be this carefree.

[silicone]

[ eiden squeezes his arm a little bit. ]

... Are you scared?

[allmenare]

Not scared, no. I was prepared for this possibility.

But I have things I would miss now, if they were taken away.

[So yes, he's scared of what could happen tomorrow.]

[silicone]

Yukichi...

[ quietly he looks down before leaning his head a little against his shoulder. ]

We'll just have to keep fighting... for the things everyone has lost. In the hopes that maybe we won't have to lose what we care about most in the end.

[allmenare]

[He's right, but that doesn't make him feel better.]

...if you need healing, tell me now. I won't ask why you need it.

[silicone]

I don't.

[ he gives him this exact look, concern, and he stiffens a bit... ]

[allmenare]

Alright.

[He won't heal him then. But he does look a touch distressed. It's such a small reaction in him that most people would miss it, but Eiden knows how he shows his emotions by now.]