[IC] Honesty post continuations

[cloakanddaikon]

Original threads were here, and here for Riku's.

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[kagekachou]

[continued from here]

If I hadn't just gone through all... *handwave* ...that a few months back, I'd probably think I was caught up in a dream. Occasionally, I still find myself doubtful of... well, everything.

[cloakanddaikon]

Rebirth is never an easy thing to adjust to.

[kagekachou]

...I never really thought of it in those terms but... I suppose that you're right. And sometimes it does work out for the better. Which is a rather unfortunate comment on what came before.

[cloakanddaikon]

As I know you in my time, Counsellor, you do not seem discontent with what your world contains.

[kagekachou]

As long as it still contains one thing, I think I'd be able to get by.

*only the slightest sideways glance indicates that he wouldn't have said such a thing were it not for the compulsory honesty*

[cloakanddaikon]

[... nods]

I do not wish to pry into parts of your life you do not wish to share.

[kagekachou]

I appreciate your consideration. It's not so much that I don't want to share it as that I just don't have the coura-

...nn.

[cloakanddaikon]

Don't have the courage, because saying it makes it real in a way that is otherwise inescapable.

I have said more than I wish to this night as well.

[kagekachou]

I take it that you're not normally this blunt and outspoken regarding people's... personal motivations, then?

[cloakanddaikon]

That was actually a personal reflection.

[kagekachou]

One that applies to others as well, though.

[cloakanddaikon]

Though I cannot say that my demeanour is overly affected by this compulsion. The amount said is different, but the level of honesty is overall the same. Moving the conversation away from sensitive topics functions as well now as it did before.

[kagekachou]

I see. That's a helpful description. I'm afraid that I'm rather short on small talk at the moment, though. Everything's so overwhelming, it's... difficult to try to find the mundane.

[cloakanddaikon]

I am afraid neither of us are much accustomed to it, now or before. Even when the subject is light, there is little said without significance.

Ask a question you want to.

[kagekachou]

Other people here... Are there others who... work with Tsuzuki-san and me? It felt like it to me, but...

[cloakanddaikon]

Counsellor Watari and a boy named Hisoka are the other two I know of from your world and your affairs. If there are others, I have not met them, nor have they been mentioned to me.