[Sayo returns from the tunnels, and it's like a welled up pressure in her chest finally dissipates into something more manageable-to go from a battlefield of bodies to a clean, cold forest that takes the air right out of her... she almost feels detached from reality, for the return home. Nothing left physically but a bandaged arm. A stitched up cut
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...What to do. For now he just replies]
I have been as well as one might expect, given the circumstances.
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Nothing bad's happened in Luceti while I've been away, I hope?
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not so high a filter, that Ginko can't read it.
Which he does.
Before going to see her, straight away.]
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But the door will be cracked a few inches. Consider it her absent-mindedness right now, because she has quite a bit of that to spare for the outside world.]
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--Sayo-san?
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... A battlefield she won't be able to forget, because she's here now, where things are harder to lose track of.]
A-ah, Ginko-san!
[She raises to her feet and unties her kimono sleeves to drape back over her arms, anxious when she realizes what he's probably here for. She's already planned what she'll say to him. Things went fine, she'd forgotten most of it, she helped out at the tents and made food and the like. It was unpleasant, but Luceti can be unpleasant.
So it wasn't so bad.]
Please, come in. Are you thirsty? I can make you something to drink.
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