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[psychedelica]

[ He's not looking for Jae-ha. There are exactly two people in this place that Hikage would say he cares about - maybe three - and he isn't one of them. Even if he'd written that letter. ANd even if Jae-ha had been right about far too much.

Maybe that's why he still holds a feeling of wariness and resentment towards him - or is it fear? He doesn't feel comfortable being around someone who can see through him so easily. But, simultaneously... it means he doesn't have to hide. Maybe that makes him uncomfortable, too.

All this to say is that Hikage spots Jae-ha on his way to the dorms and immediately freezes up like a deer in the headlights. ]

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[alttitude]

[ . . . and Jae-ha just waves, jumping into the conversation WITHOUT WORRY.]

I got your letter.

It took me a second to figure out it was you - and I'm guessing my owl with a letter in return got lost.

... it feels like it'd be silly to rehash it.

[ . . . ]

I am touched that you wrote to me, though.

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[ well thank god Jae-ha is better at these things than he is.

How should he respond to all of this? His instinct is to recoil, to snap at Jae-ha's being touched over his stupid letter that he wrote at an emotional low point; he was weak, he was vulnerable, and he only wrote to Jae-ha because he didn't think he'd ever be able to talk to him about it in person again. It was a safe way to vent.

Or so he'd thought. Apparently, this is a place where miracles happen. ]

-- Shut up. It didn't mean anything.

[alttitude]

[ . . . ]

I see.

[There's no possible way to sound less convinced than Jae-ha did in that second.]

Well, even then - I don't really plan on forgetting it.

[Because he thinks it meant something, obviously, and it'd be rude to pretend that it never happened. A moment of vulnerability might be one better left untouched, but...]

... are you feeling better now?