[ He lets them steal the knife from him and do the slicing themself - after all, it's Hange's birthday and their cake. Chocolate bread. Whatever. ]
[ Instead he'll be clearing off the rest of the small kitchen table and setting the tea mugs on it, then taking a seat across from them with his. ]
...
[ The question is unexpected. Perhaps he's thinking it's more loaded than it actually is, but... sometimes Hange makes it easy to forget that they're not just having the time of their life and not thinking about the more painful parts of it. And then sometimes it rears its ugly head anyway, like that time he yelled at them outside of the hospital, or that time they got upset with him at the lake, or -- ]
Of course it does. [ He sounds certain. After all, otherwise it would be the same as implying that this place somehow doesn't count, doesn't matter, and it does. More than anything right now. ] Everything you experienced, everything you learned. It still counts, doesn't it?
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Date: 2023-09-17 08:02 pm (UTC)[ He lets them steal the knife from him and do the slicing themself - after all, it's Hange's birthday and their cake. Chocolate bread. Whatever. ]
[ Instead he'll be clearing off the rest of the small kitchen table and setting the tea mugs on it, then taking a seat across from them with his. ]
...
[ The question is unexpected. Perhaps he's thinking it's more loaded than it actually is, but... sometimes Hange makes it easy to forget that they're not just having the time of their life and not thinking about the more painful parts of it. And then sometimes it rears its ugly head anyway, like that time he yelled at them outside of the hospital, or that time they got upset with him at the lake, or -- ]
Of course it does. [ He sounds certain. After all, otherwise it would be the same as implying that this place somehow doesn't count, doesn't matter, and it does. More than anything right now. ] Everything you experienced, everything you learned. It still counts, doesn't it?
[ They have both still grown, haven't they?.. ]