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SOBA

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CHARACTER NAME

Geto Suguru

CIVILIAN NAME

Zaru Soba

TEAM

Brimstone

HOUSING NUMBER

003

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Comments

[gorb]

Isn't it?

[undrowned]

... it's a cowardly way of living.

[gorb]

Harsh.

Usually people wait a while to call me that.

[undrowned]

Having lived a life in which you are content in your death, even if it's not something you have a choice in, is something to be envied of. Most people can't say that for themselves.

[gorb]

So you think I'm not content in it?

On the contrary, I didn't ask to be brought here.

[undrowned]

I don't know who you are. I just know what you've told me about yourself:

You want to watch me eat.
You avoid competition and being around people.
You think sharing food is important, but you haven't done it with anyone else here in a while.
You have two daughters and you're dead, but you're here, and that's something, whatever that means.

... It just seems to me like it's an otherwise lonely existence. Isn't it tiring?

[gorb]

( Well, that's unpleasant. He absolutely does not enjoy being perceived. It must all be seeping from the cracks faster than he can stop it now. )

It's entirely possible I'm just not an extravert.

And that this place does not lend itself easily to that.

[undrowned]

True.

[ after all, she has no reason to think otherwise. so: yes, all of what he said is possible. for better or worse, she'll take his word for it sincerely.

she'll give him this get out of jail card, he can take it if he wants it: ]

Tell me when you're free to go to the teahouse. I'll come with you, if you still want my company.

[gorb]

( If he says no he'll prove her right, if he says whenever he'll prove her right, and so Geto has to take a moment to think. )

Tomorrow?

I have errands, we could meet after.

[undrowned]

[ what a terrible conundrum, but anyway - ]

I'll see you then.