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[fusrodaaaah]

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[fusrodaaaah]

Any kind of red berry will work too
but i only know snowberries very well anymore

do you
want to go back?

[tealeafs]

[ .. that's a slightly deeper question at the end there, huh.

But Chizuru knows the answer. ]

yes

i have met a whole lot of kind people here
but this place is really scary and awful
and i have something to do back home
i cannot just abandon my duty
so if i could go home i would

[fusrodaaaah]

[I have something to do back home. I cannot just abandon my duty]

[Oh.]

[The weird stab of guilt is new. Guilt over what he wants. What he knows he'd try to choose, given the chance.]

i understand

im sorry you arent there
but also glad you are here

[tealeafs]

you are glad i am here
?

[ The rest of it she can understand, but this part.. ]

why
?

[fusrodaaaah]

because we are friends

right?

[tealeafs]

of course we are

[ At least there's no hesitance in answering that. The concept of friendship may have been relatively new to Chizuru here, but she's fully embraced the fact she has friends now. And Melius is definitely one of them. ]

i just

i am sorry maybe this sounds odd
but i just did not imagine you were actually glad i am here

[ Look, people appreciating her presence is.. a new concept for Chizuru too, okay...

She's trying to learn to get used to it.. ]

[fusrodaaaah]

huh ?

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[Okay, more seriously. If Chizuru can't understand why people would appreciate her, Melius... can't really understand that. She's done a lot. She's been a good friend. An actual friend, and not just one who he'd done a favor for, or had been assigned to him by some jarl. (Those poor warriors wasting away in their homes because the Argonian couldn't conceive of asking someone else to get hurt with him).]

[tealeafs]

well i mean

[ ...

Give her a second. This is hard to put into exact words even for her, but she's trying.. ]

i enjoy spending time with you
and talking to you
but i did not want to presume that you necessarily feel the same way
that would not be very nice of me

[fusrodaaaah]

Oh

oh but um

if I didn't want to
I would hide ?? and not
talk to you?

[tealeafs]

[ Hold on. ]

you would
hide
?????

[ Clearly this is more important than anything else in this moment. Because that feels a little extreme, even by Melius standards. ]

[fusrodaaaah]

well
yes

I do that sometimes
when there are rude customers

then Sasuke or Aakhahnu talks to them

[tealeafs]

[ ...

Well, it's not like she can't imagine it.. ]

i see
in that case
thank you for your kind feelings towards me
i feel very grateful that you look upon me so kindly

[fusrodaaaah]

[It's usually the dragon, and she usually has a lot to say on the subject of Trench Karens.]

why um

why wouldn't I do that?

[tealeafs]

do you think everyone looks upon me kindly
?

[fusrodaaaah]

why wouldn't they?

[tealeafs]

not everyone is that nice
some people just like hurting others
regardless of what those others are like

so when you realise people like that exist too
you appreciate it even more when people go out of their way to be kind to you
that is why i want to be grateful for your kind heart

[fusrodaaaah]

oh
right
those people

I guess I just
got used to being here
with friends

[tealeafs]

i am glad to hear that
it is what you should be used to
someone kind like you should only be surrounded by kind people

[fusrodaaaah]

I dont know

I don't think I am
that

[tealeafs]

too late

[ Wow, how ominous a text, what will follow? ]

i already think you are

[ Oh. ]

[fusrodaaaah]

oh

um







ok?