ripe sun ! its o knee chin checking up on your . how are you this is an un known palace so ill bee troubling your messages on occasionly in lieu of making frequency house visitors though id like to do that when time premittance i tis rather warm out lately so take care to layer lightly have you been spending time with your friend yahoo chin please contact if necessitated y , i belied i told you where my room is yes with loves of love , o knee chin
rats soon ! i couldn't find you in all the commuter tion did you found housing adequately no witches gave you treble did they my home has several rooms if you are looking for some peas to stay but to be more stunk angling honest i would very much like if you stayed with me there are many thongs still we do not know about this place so it is best to stay within sleight of one another oh and also the trunks are fate are truly mysterious by chance i met a young girl named yahoo like your friend perhaps they are the same young ladle? you should come over for a play date with her at the very least if this is so if you truly insist on living elsewhere i walnut stop you but please do lend me your new address when you have the timing lots of love , o knee chin
rattlesnake i hope this massage finds you well it's slipped my mundo to ask , but have you been taking up requests for help around the city i know my cute runt supper is the more relaxed typal , but i wanted to warn you against taking on the more extremist requests some of them require you to exceeded the safety of city bounds and may lead to infection or injury additions , have you noticeable any odd changes with your body lately ? it seems some indie vitals have but the appearance rate seems roughly happen hazard as always you can confidant in your loving eldritch brother if you're ever in knee of me always loving , you're o knee chin
( a lengthy pause. he ... struggles to scroll back up to what ritsu wrote, and then spends another good while trying to decipher it, which requires him to kind of hold the watch away from his face at varying lengths to make out the shape of the letters, and then figure out it's all abbreviated... which makes sense, because if they'd been full words he'd have been able to guess each one faster.
okay, okay, he's got this, normal human teenager texting ritsu brotherly bonding time resume!!! )
don't be like that we should rely one on another when stoked in a foreign palace like this shouldn't we as your older bother i'm always thinking about you speaking of the other evening i saw a shawl that remitted me of you it was black with cute little cats playing with yarn embroidery into it natural springs i purchased it right away when are you next free ? i would like to gift it to you and see how well it suits you p s please don't forego to to send your address i will send mine again sept pear rate lie later
but runts sand u uuuu u u undulation if there exits an emergency i won't be able to rush hour to your side will i? it's a matter of practicality also i wanted to bring you a house warmth ing gift and introduce myself to your house mates and ensure they aren't poor influenzas on you nor are they reckless
( the first text is kind of hard to decipher but he's thinking at least a few of these abbreviations are names...? maybe... or maybe they just stand for other words... he'll decipher this text in full (well, all of them, really) after, and probably gank some glasses off someone... ritsu's very generously offering rei time to talk with him, and he doesn't want to waste it.
the second text though... not that hard to decipher, just based on context and what he knows. and he knows. )
i know
( he doesn't really have the right to wish he was as close to ritsu as mao is, and there's no point in feeling stung when ritsu rebuffs him ... because rei dug this grave, and it's only reasonable that he lies in it. it just hurts that ritsu's so unhappy here. is he lonely, too? should rei help him find more friends...? )
i'll continuing research on the mirrors i'll send you home as soon as i can
[ why does rei think he can do everything himself? he's always like this - ritsu feels like he was born like this. rei has to do this for someone, has do to that for someone else, has to be in constant movement or he dies, like a fish.
(the fact mao is the same way is hardly lost on him, but at least mao was within reach. was always within reach.)
ritsu doesn't reply for a bit, tossing his watch between his hands as a way to calm himself down. they're out a piano still, despite the music hall, and he doesn't feel like moving to find another or find someone to conjure him one - even if his fingers itch for the feeling of smooth keys beneath them, the pedals beneath his feet, the emptiness that comes with letting his mind wander and his head fill to the brim with chopin, with liszt and mozart and schubert, with ousama... ]
( that one, also, isn't too difficult to decipher, and maybe it's because he's begun to wonder the same himself. not ritsu—never ritsu—but himself; their kind.
it isn't true, logically. if they'd been brought over without magic or these infectious monster traits— their silly condition would pale against the plights of the creatures called monsters here. but between the two groups—witches and monsters—the way they lived— the way they were looked to outsiders looked like one thing when they were the other. )
you're human we've both been always human , no matter what they say
( and how scary that is to admit. it's one thing to admire humanity, but to be human yourself is so hard. to be human—to be vulnerable—to have no excuse for why you're treated this way, or why you're alone. but if he repeats it enough, it might become true.
"they" could be anybody. their family, or well-meaning friends, or peers who don't know them. "they" could be anybody besides them, because, he doesn't mean to, but he's still separated out from everybody else, just a little bit. but ritsu doesn't have to be.
he turns in his coffin, uneasy as to how to follow up in a situation like this, through text. would ritsu end the conversation if rei asked to call...? he's certain ritsu wouldn't let him come over to comfor thim. )
knights don't treat you any differently do they ? and neither does icicle ra kin to them you're only you bit by bit they drag you into the sun where you can stay you shouldn't deny either you or them the opportune city
he guesses none of them have really cared (even if it takes a bit of context work to get mao from rei's typing), either about what he is or isn't, or who he is - to them, he's only ever been "ritsu sakuma". sleepy and staying on the edges of society, watching and thinking of how he'd never be apart of that; how he isn't allowed to be, the ground much softer and cooler and shadier, the night preferred with its soft moonlight and still air.
and yet
someone grabbed his hand, pulled him to play; regardless of what he says, he's never been ungrateful for the warmth, the excitement. while watching was still more of what he could do, rather than playing, to have someone who would come up to chat to him between games, or brighten up when he'd see him, or be a big, stupid crybaby...
and too
someone pulled him along after that, recognized him as someone outside of a shadow cast by a far more charismatic and likable existence, had him play a part in some ridiculous performance simply because they needed the numbers. and afterward, had found him interesting, had spent time with him as loneliness crept into his heart.
and yes
things had hurt, with both. things had been terrible, but pulling away, attempting to put distance between him (fated for the night) and them (fated for the day) hadn't worked. humanity is so stubborn in keeping the status quo, even as things change and grow. he isn't sure, exactly, how to follow this up either - these are things he acknowledges and knows, despite how much easier it is to fall back to poor habits -
but he'd been trying to get better. to work towards a better knights, to be friends with others, to burden mao less. hadn't he? he had, and just because none of them are here - his reasons for improvement, for being - doesn't mean he should slack off... it doesn't, but out of sight, out of mind, even with them ever present in his aching heart -
ritsu takes care in typing his place of residence's address, tapping send and then a second, equally carefully set of texts: ]
let other people do something too anija theres a hundred odd of us at least not to mention those coven people they can deal with stupid mirror stuff they want us to help with that infection thing its dangerous but not so bad with a partner went out earlier this month with midorin to handle a manticore baby even someone useless like you could help with that kinda thing anyway dont say such older brotherlike things it doesnt suit you just like your hair doesnt
runt tsunami !!! after our touching bonding moe mentous the previous weak i was inspired behold !
( a pause. nothing happens. )
is n 't it the cutest thing? only perhaps a tenth as cute as you but when i saw the flier in the window i could hardly resist it's still a work in duress but when the nice lady has finished her work i will send you another photography i was thinking of common fishing her another but i have the sense she'll attempt to hide a dozen more extra fees within her price it's enchanted too to recorder a voice rat soupppppp p p could i visit in the near future to have you record a cute ' i love you dearest o knee chin more than anyone else in the wholly widey worldy ' for me or perhaps if you're jelly nice my affections might be stolen away by this smaller ritsu perhaps you can simply call and tell me that three times a day as my three meals ? i look forward to hearing from you figuration a tive ly and laterally love and kisses , o knee chin
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