video; @unchained

[hedonistic]

[There video opens to a beautiful scene of a sunset at the Fishing District, sky painted in magnificent pinks and oranges that reflect against the pristine ice. A few moments later, a young man's voice accompanies it, tinged with the telltale slurring of someone who's rather drunk.]

Hey, question.

[A pause hangs in the air for a minute, almost long enough that one might wonder if he's gotten distracted or forgotten.]

Did you like your life, before the Storm? [. . .] If the Natha gave you a chance to go back, would any of you stay here?

[Kagari doesn't miss Japan. He doesn't feel homesick. He misses his friends, sure, but he's had more in the past nine months than he did in the twenty-one years before it. But he's starting to feel like the only one.]

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[hedonistic]

[He wonders what it's like, to say things like that and earnestly believe them. Kagari can't...relate to that feeling, not in the same way. The only human connections he was ever allowed to make were those in a similar situation to his own, and his "handlers", as it were, Akane and Gino. Akane aside, the kinship with the others came naturally. He was never able to seek it elsewhere, and by the time even that much was possible, he didn't want it elsewhere. He cared deeply about his friends and felt no further obligation to anyone or anything, and in El Nysa it's been the same, even though his circle has been able to widen with freedom.

Linneus doesn't feel the same way. Kagari doesn't get it, but he doesn't push any further than that. He hates it when anyone tells him how to live his life, after all. Freedom is freedom, which means Linneus has the freedom to use his differently than Kagari does. He'd asked the other man if this was what he truly wanted, and it seemed as if the answer was "yes".]

huh
well if thats how you feel, i guess thats that