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( Old habits.
He'll send a picture. In it stern eyebrows are drawn together, mouth a line. His hair is longer, and while his eyebags are no longer as pronounced something about the late night has him fussy around the edges, tired and a little worn. He's wearing sleepwear, not anything Satoru will recognise, he left his belongings behind. But the effect is the same. Soft, for a genocidal cultist. )
There.
Will you go home now?
He'll send a picture. In it stern eyebrows are drawn together, mouth a line. His hair is longer, and while his eyebags are no longer as pronounced something about the late night has him fussy around the edges, tired and a little worn. He's wearing sleepwear, not anything Satoru will recognise, he left his belongings behind. But the effect is the same. Soft, for a genocidal cultist. )
There.
Will you go home now?
[ fifteen minutes later: ]
u look
better
[ less tired, surely. hair soft and shiny and untangled, skin less sallow, the dark circles under his eyes less pronounced. like he's comfortable in his own skin again.
it feels a little like swallowing broken glass, but: ]
im glad
suguru
u look
better
[ less tired, surely. hair soft and shiny and untangled, skin less sallow, the dark circles under his eyes less pronounced. like he's comfortable in his own skin again.
it feels a little like swallowing broken glass, but: ]
im glad
suguru
[ satoru doesn't even prickle at that part. he's too busy staring at the picture, cheek pillowed on his arm, ignoring the way the brightness of the screen is making his eyes prickle and burn.
so there's another lag before he replies: ]
adult reasos
lol
[ nanami left the school today. didn't say goodbye, didn't even leave a note. just cleared out his dorm and was gone, which is the only way satoru knows he hadn't died out on the field.
maybe he'll take a picture a year or two from now and be looking better, too.
so now there's nothing left in the dorms except for residuals, floating through the halls like ghosts, and satoru had just wanted to be anywhere but there. ]
so there's another lag before he replies: ]
adult reasos
lol
[ nanami left the school today. didn't say goodbye, didn't even leave a note. just cleared out his dorm and was gone, which is the only way satoru knows he hadn't died out on the field.
maybe he'll take a picture a year or two from now and be looking better, too.
so now there's nothing left in the dorms except for residuals, floating through the halls like ghosts, and satoru had just wanted to be anywhere but there. ]
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