[He has been, a little, hasn't he? It's weird to realize given he's unconsciously set himself to a baseline but, he has been getting a little stronger huh. He's pleased.]
Huh? Yeah?
[He can't really lift his head while floating, but he can turn it. Despite being on a hair trigger in such matters, he hasn't yet realized the trap; it's not unusual for them to talk while resting like this. He's listening... but what she called up starts to draw back as she goes on.]
B-best if you don't think about it... Not like anything can be done about it now...
[Shin's a bit unaware of just how callous this way of thinking of his comes off. It's not like he doesn't care... he just sees it as realistic, logical; the past is another country, and nobody has a passport to it to change it. What's done is done... but it's also a little hypocritical of him when he himself absolutely judges people by the past... and hates people who try to pretend those actions never happened.
It's also a little telling, him telling Helena of all people not to think about it.]
...It was either that, or get it done for them. Your friends probably wanted to make it quick.
[He heard that being discussed, in the faculty meeting. It had made something already glowing molten in the pit of him even more hot and sick because were they even trying; some fire that he was surprised to realize he had or... still had? It comes through in his tone despite himself, just a little bitter heat haze on the word.]
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[He has been, a little, hasn't he? It's weird to realize given he's unconsciously set himself to a baseline but, he has been getting a little stronger huh. He's pleased.]
Huh? Yeah?
[He can't really lift his head while floating, but he can turn it. Despite being on a hair trigger in such matters, he hasn't yet realized the trap; it's not unusual for them to talk while resting like this. He's listening... but what she called up starts to draw back as she goes on.]
B-best if you don't think about it... Not like anything can be done about it now...
[Shin's a bit unaware of just how callous this way of thinking of his comes off. It's not like he doesn't care... he just sees it as realistic, logical; the past is another country, and nobody has a passport to it to change it. What's done is done... but it's also a little hypocritical of him when he himself absolutely judges people by the past... and hates people who try to pretend those actions never happened.
It's also a little telling, him telling Helena of all people not to think about it.]
...It was either that, or get it done for them. Your friends probably wanted to make it quick.
[He heard that being discussed, in the faculty meeting. It had made something already glowing molten in the pit of him even more hot and sick because were they even trying; some fire that he was surprised to realize he had or... still had? It comes through in his tone despite himself, just a little bitter heat haze on the word.]