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[indent][indent][indent][color=gray][sub][right][color=92278f][b]Location:[/b][/color] City Streets -- The City of Thorinn, Aetheria[/right][/sub][/color]
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Seele watched the tension in Kazuki…not ‘unwind’ per se, but more rewind, slackening in some places, tightening in others. He was a tangle of things, the poor boy, and most of them he kept shockingly well-hidden. Some, though, came out in his body-language—she swore at one point he was going to crush that innocent teacup in his hands—and others still were there in his voice, in the little tremors and sighs, the pauses and, of course, the things he said. 

She was used to meeting people who held others to impossible standards. Kazuki was evidently guilty of that as well, but he also expected that same impossibility from himself. For how well-composed he’d been through the glitch, she guessed he was no stranger to the strain that must have beset him with. They might have been trapped in a strange world, but that didn’t mean they’d left all their problems behind. It was their minds inhabiting Pariah, after all. You couldn’t escape your own mind.
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You just couldn’t.
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[color=92278f]“Then don’t convince them,”[/color] she said, and brightened again. [color=92278f]“[i]Show[/i] them. Maybe you can’t take back what you said, but there’s an important difference between unsaying something, and undoing it. Or just doing, maybe. For example—”[/color]

Seele plucked up another piece of the pastry and popped it into her mouth, chewed—[color=92278f][i]“Mmh!”[/i][/color]—and then gestured to the plate.

[color=92278f]“I’ve just eaten another bit, and now there’s hardly any left for you. I can’t undo that, I’ll just have to live with the guilt. I could [i]say[/i] [/color]' [color=92278f]I’m sorry, Kazuki, for eating your very tasty pastry,[/color]' [color=92278f]—even though I’m not really, it was very tasty—or I could [i]do[/i] something about it instead. Like, say, buy you another to replace it, or maybe bake you one myself, if you aren’t averse to eating poison.[/color]

[color=92278f]“Am I making sense? I think I’m just rambling, sorry—again. My point is, the forgiveness isn’t nearly as important as just making things right.”[/color][/indent][/indent][/indent]