Did You Stand Too Close To the Fire

[shadearchivist]

Who: Ienzo, Even, and Aeleus
What: Chatting about that whole murder party that was CO.
Where: Apartment above Tea Shop, 4th District, Traverse Town
When: Afternoon
Warnings: Mentions of immolation and other plot-related things. Probably mental breakdowns because immolation, etc.



Ienzo wasn't sure exactly why laying out tea made this feel as if it wouldn't be quite as difficult a discussion as it might be. There wasn't actually any sort of real virtue in doing so, other than giving his hands something to do as his mind wandered. He wasn't entirely sure that Even would be up for a true discussion of this; his death had been particularly traumatic for him.

Still, what he wanted were answers, and Aeleus had some of them. Maybe making sense of what had happened would make it less difficult to think about in the long run. And that was why he was standing by a table with all of the tea things and some pastries on it and waiting for a difficult discussion to begin.

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[defrostedpride]

Even was not looking forward to this conversation. Unfortunately, as little as he liked the idea of sharing death stories, he liked the idea of not knowing less. It had been different before, cost-benefit analysis in favor of repression and denial letting irrelevant pieces of the past lie. Only the universe was clearly not cooperating with his plan, wherefore he was making his way to the tea shop with what he hoped would be an adequately propitiatory cake for the glassware he suspected he was going to break.

The nice thing about the presence of the Nightmares was that no one would have thought Even silly for carrying his shield ready, though it wasn't Nightmares that prickled the hair on the back of his neck.