mistletoe 2020;

[softlyfalling]

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[softlyfalling]

Ah—

...sorry, I didn't mean to get into something kind of... weighty, myself.

[nihilmancy]

It's alright. I don't mind talking about it like this.

[ The immense grounds of the Meiji Jingu and the adjacent Yoyogi park come into view among the urban sprawl of Shibuya, and Hlasoh sighs peacefully. ]

[softlyfalling]

[ she leans against the side door with her forearm, relaxing a little. ]

...I want there to be more better days for you, you know?

[nihilmancy]

It's a pretty good day right now.

[softlyfalling]

Good.

[ just—reaches over and scrunches a hand through Hlasoh's hair, affectionate. ]

[nihilmancy]

Shriiiiike, I'm driving.

[softlyfalling]

Ah, you seemed like you had it pretty well in hand, though... and we're almost there, it seems like.

...ah, I just know you've been thinking a lot of things over, recently.

[nihilmancy]

We are almost there!

I have been. I use drives like these to process them, but now this time is for you.

I... honestly don't know enough about the "infection" to know if it's curable, as it were. Perhaps not the original one, but maybe the later, ah, experiments performed on me, may be mitigated.

[softlyfalling]

...mm.

Would it be too much to say that I'll hope it can be? Mitigated, I mean.

[nihilmancy]

I hope so. But... this may be one chance that Hell affords me. That's why I sometimes seem lost in thought about these things.

[softlyfalling]

Ah, I suppose so...

...well, it's space and time we wouldn't ordinarily get to rethink things, too.

[nihilmancy]

I've been able to do things— no, be a person, that I never could have dreamed of.

[softlyfalling]

Mm. It's nice.

...are you happy?

[nihilmancy]

...I think so. Sometimes I have a hard time identifying my own feelings. But I believe I am happy much of the time.

[softlyfalling]

...All right.

I worry too much, I suppose.