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[slighted_stains]

[behold: a very, very confused young boy in the Square, highlighting a route on a standard City map]

Take a right by the fountain, and then a left by the second street near the counter, walk 200 meters forward, then cross, and -

[...trip and fall right on your face, scaring off a flock of pigeons]

Aaaaah! I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I

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[daddyschewtoy]

[Yeah, okay. So now that Nataku can actually see Subaru, yesterday makes a little more sense. Just a little.]

...Are you hurt?

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[slightedstains]

Yes --- no? No!

[fumbles... with his hat....]

Yes, I'm - yes! I'm fine!

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[daddyschewtoy]

[TRYING NOT TO STARE. Though uh. This is Nataku so LOL YEAH.]

Your face...

You're younger.

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[slightedstains]

[HE HAS BOTH EYES TOO, NATAKU. JUST SAYING.]

[and they'll both take this time to blink dumbly]

What? Were you expecting me to be older? That's right, it's because when people are referred to a professional onmyouji, they always think... age....

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[daddyschewtoy]

[PART OF THE REASON WHY HE'S STARING, BRO.]

No, that isn't it.

I think you did not remember me because you haven't met me yet. In your time.

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[slightedstains]

I'm not sure I - I really don't think - I don't understand. I don't understand anything.

[crawls... up....]

Let me help you.

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[daddyschewtoy]

I don't understand, either. But you are not the Subaru I- know.

[forehead wrinkles- LOOK AT THAT, A SORT-OF FACIAL EXPRESSION?]

Help me...with what?

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[slightedstains]

With... whatever this is.

[fixes his hat oh so awkwardly]

...I'm not sure. But I think you sound as if... you're really sad, somehow.

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[daddyschewtoy]

Sad?

[IS THIS SADNESS? IS HE SAD?

very quietly-]

Maybe I am.