yves & mizu

[noirges]

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[purities]

[oh the way i almost missed this because i didn't get a notif rip

also truly cannot blame him for wanting a drink after all that, tbf. mizu regards the bottle and the two glasses carefully.]

Not usually. But I suppose today has been anything but usual.

[noirges]

[ smiles a little tiredly ]

I won't force you - just your company would be nice, if you're okay with that.

[ but he'll pour two glasses anyway, and leave them in the space between the two of them in case she'd like one ]

[purities]

That's fine.

[...]

You hoped he felt well-loved. Why?

[noirges]

[ taking his own glass and sipping from it... ]

Because Jiao would've made a big sacrifice for him - just for the chance that Jing Yuan could still live.

To not feel loved would be to ignore that. So I don't know what's going through his mind... but I hope that, at least, that's what he felt.

[purities]

That so?

[taking the glass, holding it for now.]

A friend was willing to sacrifice himself for him. Yet, his still said his conscience was clear. I wonder if he would've still said the same if Jiaoqiu had succeeded.

[noirges]

I don't know. [ they'll probably never know ] ... and I don't know if something changed, or Jing Yuan did.

But in the course of his long life, he did enough for others that someone thought that the most obvious course of action would be to try to die for him, even if it was unreasonable.

So that... means something. Even if I don't know how much it weights against hurting Charlie, or any of this. But I don't want to deny it.

[purities]

There's much we don't know.

[unfortunately. mizu pauses for a moment, thinking...]

I don't take Jiaoqiu for a poor judge of character. He must have believed him to have a reason for it. However... Have you spoken to Jing Yuan?

[noirges]

[ nods as he sips his wine ]

Yeah.

.... I think something happened to him.

[purities]

[hums.]

Yes.

Something has clearly gone wrong, and we're only just starting to see the shape of it.