okay, we'll meet up in the afternoon, just like we planned. let me know if anything comes up and i'll head your way as soon as I can
[ the avoidance stings.
on a conscious level, he knows better, but subconsciously he can't stand staring at the cerevice any longer, plagued with an exasperation that seeps fast into his bones, in the semantics of his fingers as he weighs the potential for his exasperation to go on indefinitely. he's patient, but he can't be forever. he isn't rin or kisumi — he can't make haru alight by force, can't make him do anything he would've done already, given enough time to make the choice of his own volition.
his chance to ask kisumi and rin what they saw has come and passed. likewise, haru's closed up just the same. a refusal of the same things.
just like that, makoto folds in surrender. ]
stay safe, haru.
[ in retrospect, turning off the device and heading off the subway train evokes a damning sense of finality.
but in some way, he's relieved.
makoto would rather ask him for the plain, unvarnished truth in person. ]
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let me know if anything comes up and i'll head your way as soon as I can
[ the avoidance stings.
on a conscious level, he knows better, but subconsciously he can't stand staring at the cerevice any longer, plagued with an exasperation that seeps fast into his bones, in the semantics of his fingers as he weighs the potential for his exasperation to go on indefinitely. he's patient, but he can't be forever. he isn't rin or kisumi — he can't make haru alight by force, can't make him do anything he would've done already, given enough time to make the choice of his own volition.
his chance to ask kisumi and rin what they saw has come and passed. likewise, haru's closed up just the same. a refusal of the same things.
just like that, makoto folds in surrender. ]
stay safe, haru.
[ in retrospect, turning off the device and heading off the subway train evokes a damning sense of finality.
but in some way, he's relieved.
makoto would rather ask him for the plain, unvarnished truth in person. ]