Audience- Yoji Uruha

[holyspirits]

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[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.

[kumeyuri]

[GAZES]

[holyspirits]

[ gazes back (probably.) ]

Well, I am. I'm learning you're stubborn and you don't like being told to do something even if you don't have strong feelings on it in the first place.

[kumeyuri]

[ :T ]

Hey...

[DAMN CALLED OUT AS A BRAT, WHICH UNFORTUNATELY HE IS]

[holyspirits]

[ SEE. ]

An accurate summary, isn't it? You can learn a lot about a person just by observing their behavior and their body language.

[kumeyuri]

[dryly,]

Thanks for this psychoanalysis of my personality.

[holyspirits]

[ they squeeze his hand and let go. ]

My point is that it may not be nearly as useless or avoidable as you think. So maybe it's something to consider as it comes.

[kumeyuri]

I still don't have to like it...

[grumbles]