arsenist: <user name=albarose> (ka342)
来栖暁 (Kurusu Akira) ([personal profile] arsenist) wrote 2025-05-14 10:44 am (UTC)

i would say nothing's stopping u but he wasn't here in april, so

[His eyes flicker.

A protest builds in his throat, piles up behind his teeth. Akira has done nothing except allow Maruki to tear a fresh wound in his own heart. What good is it, now, to stem the bleeding of the very damage that he allowed to happen in the first place?

In every sense of the meaning, Akira is the last one that should be here, right now.

But it doesn't help Maruki to fight against it and say any of that, so he doesn't.

All he can do is cast about, grasping desperately until he finds the words to help him. It's the least he can do.]


...Tell me, then.

[He glances away, finally. His eyes rest on the water, the wobbling surface finally settling its movements and becoming still. Akira will do the same.]

You didn't have to, but you chose for me to come with you. If talking helps- [-if I'm really able to help you-] -then tell me what's hurting you, so you don't have to carry it alone.

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