Audience- Yoji Uruha

[holyspirits]

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[holyspirits]

[ sir.

eventually, in a patch of grass, zuriel sits on the ground and opens what looks like a small salad. food time. even if they aren't actually eating it yet. ]

I know it sounds like we're avoiding the subject, but we really don't. Everything is new to us, too.

[kumeyuri]

[uruha adjusts his robes so that he won't end up on the outermost cape, before he also sits down.

though at zuriel's response, he just sighs and flops to the side, mayhaps more theatrically than needed.]

[holyspirits]

[ it's affection week, so when uruha flops over they move and carefully pat his head. ]

Sorry. I know that's not... helpful. [ and they do sound apologetic, if resigned. ] And we're supposed to be.

[kumeyuri]

[he mostly accepts it, though he does give zuriel a half-hearted bat of his hand out of principle because it's embarrassing to receive head pats when you are a 30+ year old man.]

It's an unexpected situation, right? [a beat] By the way, why have we all been so touchy-feely with each other all week?

[now that he's reminded of it...]

[holyspirits]

[ you don't dissuade them, little doomed man. ]

Completely unexpected. [ but oh. they've been asked this once, so they're less caught off-guard this time. ] We suspect it's another side-effect of this part of heaven. Since you aren't integrated into the full of it, it's probably like not being able to see us completely and not having your usual powers and everything.

[kumeyuri]

[flatly,]

So it makes us want to touch each other.

[holyspirits]

Yeah, apparently. Might be because it wants you to connect with each other, too. Force you out of your comfort zones a bit.

[kumeyuri]

[




he just groans and rolls over.]

[holyspirits]

[ this is why they don't feel bad bullying a 30+ year old man. ]

Not a fan? [ sound less like you think it's funny, zuriel. ]

[kumeyuri]

[STOP]

I like to decide things at my own pace, thanks.

[holyspirits]

And yet time waits for no man... think we saw plenty of that over the last few days.

[kumeyuri]

I'd hope there's no correlation between a murder trial procedure and me apparently being forced outside of my comfort zone.

[holyspirits]

I would also hope not, but given we don't know why Jing Yuan killed Charlie... [ maybe he simply snapped. ] But I didn't really know him at all to begin with.

[kumeyuri]

... It's going to make things rough moving forward—a reminder that none of us really know each other at all.

[holyspirits]

And yet you don't seem impressed with the idea of a thing that might push you a little closer to getting to know each other better.

[ this is not to blame him, this is just pointing that out. ]

[kumeyuri]

[deadpan,]

I don't want to get to know people better by sudden urges to hold their hand.

[holyspirits]

[ stares him dead in the eye (probably.)


reaches forward.


grabs his hand.


what now, punk. ]

[kumeyuri]

[stares]

Really? Are you really doing this?

[holyspirits]

Have you ever heard of exposure therapy?

[kumeyuri]

Is that what this is now.

[holyspirits]

Maybe so. And your thoughts on that?

[kumeyuri]

That you're screwing with me?

[holyspirits]

Because we're holding hands? [ uruha. ] Or because you don't think that's a real thing?

[kumeyuri]

I know what exposure therapy is! I mean this.

[SHAKES THEIR HAND]

[holyspirits]

I think I happen to be learning quite a bit about you just from holding your hand.