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Who: Anyone
When: Day 84, Morning
Where: Wherever
What: Mingle!

[At some point during the early hours Eizon's Directory flickered for a several minutes before finally turning to nothing but static. I hope you remembered who gives soap, Thusia. Otherwise, the morning has started off uneventful.]

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We might not have gotten as far as we did . . .

[trails off, more than a little thrown off by the question]

I just—I . . . don't want to tell you what to do. I just wanted to tell you I remembered.

Yet there are a great many things you have told me to do. Some of which may contradict your current frame of mind.

There has already been more than enough misunderstandings between us. I do not wish to perpetuate more.

[BUT WHAT IF I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY]

I want . . . I want to be okay with you again.

[Nods his acquiescence.]

That much was yours to have from the first moment I said your name here.

Whatever part I may yet play in that, consider it done.

Me too, right? It can't all be you.

No, it can't. But I think you have yet allowed me enough of a start.

I did?

[Okay yes, just . . . ruffling his hair, however briefly.]

Yes, you did.

[fgldf o-okay?]

Ah . . .

You were dear to me before I had a heart of my own. Having gained so much against such odds, I would hardly have a way to change that after.

What passed between us in Sabra La Tau has been one of my life's few regrets.

. . . It's not like I made things easy.

And I did?

You were the newer one. I was the leader. I'd been around longer, gained more memories. It was my responsibility to be better.

'Longer' is erroneous. Your Hydra was the second I knew.

Did you remember them?

I did, in time. I still do.

It doesn't count since I still remembered more at the time, then.

Are you honestly going to spend the morning arguing your own culpability with me?

If you keep arguing with me.

I won't deny that your own behaviours influenced the situation. However, I will not agree that they were entirely to blame, either.

As you said yourself before, it is not a matter in which one side or another can claim complete responsibility.

I know that.

Excellent. It would seem we are agreed.

[. . . just. Rests his hand on Gokudera's shoulder, squeezing once before letting go again. Maybe for no more or less of a reason than simply 'he can'.]

At the very least, it shouldn't be something that troubles you.

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