( closed-ish ) ad astera per aspera

[crystallomancy]

Who: Natsume Sakasaki & various
What: July catch-all
When: 07/01 onwards
Where: looks off into the distance...
Warnings: you know what....... i bet we're gonna need some. will edit later.

ana-bolism:

Paramore was right. Hard times.

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a little catch-all for natsume, for outside-of-event-logs-and-etc threads. you can toss your own starters for him in here too, but i appreciate being given a heads up first! we can talk at coordination or on my plotting comment here!

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[crystallomancy]

( And just how is he supposed to respond to that? It answers his question, at least; Shuichi did it because he wanted to. He, as a person, thought it would be nice if no one faced mortal repercussions for something they might have been forced into.

It would be nice. It is nice. Natsume watches him, silent, and finally lets the rest of his tension melt away. )

Thank you for telling ME. ( Congratulations, he guesses, since Shuichi got what he wanted. ) You look absolutely awFUL, so make sure you catch Kawai-san and get her to do a little makeup magic on YOU.

( He starts to leave, but his steps are slow--he drifts to a stop. )

...More importantLY, get some REST. ( He won't look at him now, but there's a small bit of care in his tone. ) The world won't end even if you take a few extra days to lay around and heal up properLY. Elizabeth-san only did so much; it's time for time itself to take care of the REST, and you walking around and going to CLASS, or checking in with people isn't going to HELP. Health concerns all parts of YOU, not just the part that was inJURED.

( natsume "we aren't close enough for such sentimental feelings but i'm going to fuss at you lowkey anyway" sakasaki.

it's his way of reassuring things are fine between them, too; shuichi's reasoning doesn't change how he feels about what happened, or impact his feelings on shuichi negatively, either. )

[unsurely]

[ Kawai-san... Rika feels like she's got enough on her plate right now, but at the very least the fact that Natsume can still speak about her in more casual terms should be a good sign. Holding back what feels like a sigh of relief, Shuichi peels himself from the locker as well when the other moves to leave, running a hand through his hair as if fixing that alone is actually going to do anything about the other things that brought on those remarks.

It doesn't sound like there's much else he can do though. He said what he wanted to, or what he thought would be necessary to be understood... he hopes, if it isn't too presumptuous, it might have proven even a little of the fact that things aren't always so black and white. There are always in-betweens, and people have motives and reasons not limited to the simple, superficial ones you can assume on the surface.

It's just a lesson that was costly for himself to learn as well, just like it feels to be for Natsume now. ]

...I will. Thank you, Sakasaki-kun.

[ Just like I thought, you're a kind person.

What he wants to say -- what he doesn't say -- and before he knows it what comes out is a copy of what Natsume himself had said, right in front of this same set of lockers, not that long ago. ]

I'll see you around.