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[psychedelica]

Here.

[ welcome to THE KITCHEN, belph, because that's where your hikage time is happening today. He's brewed some tea tonight (as he does most nights), but he's made enough for two; now he's holding a cup out to Belph. ]

You're going to need it after all that.

Comments

[psychedelica]

The way you always dance around subjects you don't want to talk about is annoying. That's all.

[axilium]

Well, my deepest apologies for that. Still, I'm sure there are things you don't want to talk about either.

[psychedelica]

[ Hikage sighs into his cup. ]

Of course there are.

[ he looks down at the unfamiliar face reflected on the surface of his tea. He doesn't really care about what Belph is hiding - he was just trying to get away from the earlier topic. The idea that Belph likes him. That he sees him as someone fun to be around, someone trying his best. Somehow. That he'd spare him for some reason. Is that who Hikage is? Is Belph worth trusting over this, or is he just lying, trying to trick him? (But what would he be trying to trick him out of? He doesn't know.)

He feels like he'd been laying in the dark at the bottom of a deep lake, and suddenly, he's been dislodged from his resting place. He wonders if there would even be a point in trying to swim for the surface - if there would be someone waiting to pull him back up. ]

... What's your title, Belph?

[axilium]

[...]

That's quite the thing to ask of me.

[psychedelica]

I'm Cinderella's Prince.

[ don't stop him now, belph, he's on a roll. ]

So tell me.

[axilium]

[damn it.]

... The White Rabbit.

[psychedelica]

[ Hikage seems a little taken aback by the fact that he shared it at all - he was waiting (hoping, even) for Belph to avoid it after he offered up his own. If he wanted to, he could've gotten out of it. Even telling a lie in this situation could be dangerous, if that's what this is.

But he didn't. ]

... You actually trust me.

[axilium]

... At the very least, you're not someone I want to piss off. Besides, unless your objective happens to be "kill the White Rabbit", it's not like you're going to stab me for it, are you?

[psychedelica]

I could know someone who would. You're an idiot.

[ but there's no vitriol in his voice. just bewilderment. ]

[axilium]

I'm really blowing your mind right now, aren't I?

[psychedelica]

Shut up.

[ he will chug the rest of this tea and leave just to escape his confusing feelings, don't test him. ]

[axilium]

[well, belph will comply and just continue drinking his tea, then!]