[He frowns. There's a whole lot he can say about Anya. There's a lot he can say between them both that Toi would understand, but it's embarrassing for him to think about bringing it up.
[ he felt it that week where people's emotions were connected, how the loneliness immediately eased when she spotted him. and from her own memory this past week. ]
It made more sense, why she was so stubborn about it.
[Yeah, he felt it, too, and he hated it. Mostly because it was familiar. Terribly familiar.]
She said her mom and dad were somewhere else. And her grandparents. [Which makes him frown because, wow? Must be nice, even if they're away. To have parents and grandparents.] And she was... half?
[He makes a face because in the Middle Kingdom there is only the Middle Kingdom really. Other countries who? Only Imperial China. He does understand being half, however. In a different sort of way.
Which he sort of refused to acknowledge readily, and now he regrets it.]
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That's more or less what an idol is. It's a lot more complicated than just that, but... I don't care enough about that kind of stuff to follow it.
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Then why was she always drawing things about the stars?
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So he doesn't.]
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[ the conversation? the situation? everything?
he really wishes he could tell anya 'i told you so' right now. ]
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[Wow, their venn diagram converges at "this is stupid."]
You can perform Inquiry with the board and try to speak to her spirit maybe.
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I don't know what I would even say to her.
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If you talk to her, it's enough, [he mutters.] ...She said, "feels hard to be alone."
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[ he felt it that week where people's emotions were connected, how the loneliness immediately eased when she spotted him. and from her own memory this past week. ]
It made more sense, why she was so stubborn about it.
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She said her mom and dad were somewhere else. And her grandparents. [Which makes him frown because, wow? Must be nice, even if they're away. To have parents and grandparents.] And she was... half?
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[ he doesn't know that for sure, but going by the memory he witnessed and her language barrier, it's the most likely explanation. ]
Oh. Japan is the country I live in, too. But people can be mean to those who don't fit in.
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Which he sort of refused to acknowledge readily, and now he regrets it.]
I guess every place is the same then.
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[ everywhere is terrible, it's true. ]
But a lot about her makes sense in retrospect.
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Like what...?
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... but, I get it more now.
[ still crazy tho ]
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There was plenty of other people who would have been her friend besides us.
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[ she probably just
really wanted to make sure they had friends ]
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Then shouldn't she have been satisfied?!
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People are pretty stupidly complicated.