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[umbredna]

I'm fine, obviously. Are you sure I wasn't just faking?

[She hadn't been, but.]

[lukeim_yurlin]

Obviously.

[Just really grouchy. But he can't blame her.]

I had my doubts. Wouldn't have removed you from the plaza, otherwise.

[umbredna]

...well, thanks. That thing sucked.

[lukeim_yurlin]

[There's a mental shrug as he brushes off the thanks.]

Probably about as much as what happened at the end of the Flower Festival.

[Because that had left him in a bad way, too. He knows your pain in a way, Edna, and in this case he's willing to admit it so that you don't feel so alone in it.]

I'm going to do some cooking in a bit. Do you want anything?

[umbredna]

Nothing in particular. Does that sort of thing happen a lot?

[lukeim_yurlin]

Alright.

[He'll just keep Edna's likes and dislikes in mind when he's making up food later.]

It...seems to. Unfortunately. Months ago, I arrived in Verens just in time for something called the Night of Selenium. Better you weren't here for that.

[umbredna]

For all this place runs on good emotions, it likes making everyone miserable.

[lukeim_yurlin]

Happiness is a fleeting, fragile emotion, anyway. I find it hard to trust, anymore.

[umbredna]

I never did.

[Well. That's the first time she's admitted that.]

[lukeim_yurlin]

[That's...wow. Godsdamn. Even Dezel knew happiness at one point in his life, when he ran with the Windriders and Lafarga was still alive.]

Not even while Eizen lived as a seraph?

[He knows from talking to Edna that he wasn't around a whole lot, but still...]

[umbredna]

[A mental shrug]

He was never around much, so I spent a lot of time missing him. Besides, that was hundreds of years ago.

[lukeim_yurlin]

[Hearing this from Edna... It hits hard. Harder than Dezel wants to admit. Yet he doesn't dare pity her. He knows she'll take it badly and he couldn't blame her for that, either. He wouldn't want anything of the sort in her shoes.]

[Yet he can't say nothing to it, either. He has to admit that he gives enough of a damn to make some sort of effort.]

I...understand the feeling. It's not something you deserve.

[umbredna]

You get used to it, though.

[lukeim_yurlin]

True... But don't make me remind you of what you told me, before.

[umbredna]

...what was it?