UN: Almasy - Audio

[firacrux]

Anyone out there know how to do stitches? Asking for a friend.

On a completely unrelated note what to do with a concussion and possible brain damage?

[Quieter.]

...The brain damage is old don't worry about it.

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[etherealsage]

Cocoa, huh? Sounds like someone's partial. Or maybe it's just the person bringing the cocoa.

[She's teasing him. Really. She is. It's just a joke, though she... Well. Rinoa admits at least to herself that maybe she's a little curious over the truth in the statement. Truth is, they probably wouldn't care what she brought. Only that it's her at all. She could believe that.

It's as she mulling over the concept of kids and adults that she's reminded of a very similar conversation she's had with Squall. Not too long ago either. It seems like it's one more thing they have in common with one another. But neither he nor Seifer are particularly wrong. If adults could have handled things, could have fixed things, there wouldn't have been a need to create gardens to raise children up into mercenaries. It's almost cruel when she thinks about it. Sure, it'd be easy to pass it off as simply a means of 'that's the way the world works,' but that's irresponsible.

As such, she doesn't offer him any kind of counterargument, as much as she wishes she could. Squall is a surprisingly easier topic. Maybe. Or maybe he just doesn't disappoint her so much.]

Tense is a good word for him. I think... like you, he's just finally having this opportunity to discover himself. Both of you were just restrained to your roles for so long. You never had an opportunity to really live or to learn. And now you both have that chance.

[Too many years too late, perhaps.]

You both just need some time, you know? You're trying to make up for a lot of lost time. So don't force it. Just... let things fall as they will. If something breaks, we clean it up and do our best to put it back together. A crack doesn't make something ugly. It just makes it more beautiful.

[...She's such an odd duck.]

[firacrux]

Maybe. I'll never tell.

[It might be both. It's probably both. The cocoa is nice, but she's right, she could bring anything and he'd be happy about it. Seifer's not picky. He's just... glad they're not enemies. Glad that she doesn't hate him as much as he thinks she should.

They grew up in the same situation after all. Being trained to cover up for the failings of those who should have taken more responsibility. Making it through those situations as much by chance as anything else, as those selfsame adults continued to fail them every step of the way. What use were they when they needed teenagers to save the world they had more than a decade's warning about the looming threat? This was the best they could do?

The world didn't work this way until so called adults decided to make it so.

They should just bicker about Squall, it's easier.]

[Her words earned a nod along with a thoughtful frown. She's not wrong. It's been hard on them both, trying to learn how to be "normal" people. Discovering a complete and utter lack of life skills was pretty shocking back in the village. Still a struggle here after Seifer had begun to hone a few into something useful. At least he can keep himself fed, that's something.]

[He huffs in amusement, shaking his head ruefully.]

I think a crack means it's broken and time to throw it out, Rin.

[It's said gently, maybe even sorrowfully. If buried under a significant amount of sarcastic tone to keep the edge off. There's something about it that implies he might not be talking about a thing so much.]

[They were robbed of so much. Could they ever truly learn how to function in the real world now?]

[etherealsage]

[Rinoa chooses not to tease him over his response. She is confident that she knows him well enough to conclude he does indeed, enjoy both aspects of cocoa.

Perhaps she could continue to wax poetically if she knew what was going on in his head. But she is blissfully unaware, and if not blissful, then simply unaware. He continues and the words he offers her aren't...

Well. They don't instil much confidence in her. Yet that's to be expected considering all both of them have been through. It doesn't really surprise her to hear such concepts out of him. And she knows very well what he means when he says it. It's not things he's talking about at all. It's him.

Rinoa eyes him for some moments and she leans over and presses the tip of her nose into his cheek.]

No. I refuse to believe that. I won't make you believe it, but I can't. We can only be complete when we're all together.