AUDIENCE FOR: Mikazuki Munechika

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... I see. Well, mine doesn't require touch, although I suppose it doesn't... hurt...?

[is

is mikazuki going to let go once he's healed]

[unsaid]

[no but he's also not holding on that tight so cetus can pull away when they want]

You are awfully patient.

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[yeah, when mikazuki isn't letting go, cetus will pull their hands back themself. sorry, jiji.]

Patience is a virtue.

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[he doesn't really mind]

Certainly it is.

... and though I had asked already on how you are, might I ask your thoughts on the results of today?

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[a hum]

Unfortunate, though maybe not surprising.

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Oh? Did you expect such an outcome to eventually be inevitable?

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Not necessarily inevitable, but I wouldn't say it was unlikely either. Time seems to work against you.

[unsaid]

It makes one wonder where the idea is developed that nine hours is the standard for these experiences.

... though I suppose in some, it does prove to be time enough.

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I guess if there have been enough successes, it sets the standard.

[a beat]

Also, the task for your healing is to confess a genuine and significant regret to two different people, neither of whom can be from your previous session.

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[he seems amused]

And still yet I cannot include you?

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[suffer]

Is there a reason you'd want to? But that's right—I wouldn't count.

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I felt I talked around it last time, and yet I come to see you so often and I open up so little...

If I was in your position, I would certainly be left terribly curious.

[because you're a nosey old man!!]

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I won't say I'm not curious... although that still doesn't change the restriction of your task.

[unsaid]

[a soft gasp]

You’re curious about me?

[don’t sound excited]

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I feel like I shouldn't have said that now.

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[hehehehe]

You likely should not have.

[amused]

… let us walk to the wisteria trees. Have you been since we planted them?

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I've been in the courtyard a few times.

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[nodding]

Then let us go admire the fruits of our labor once more.

[and mikazuki will walk in that direction, pleased to have his leggies back in working order. even though he's like. not changing in speed from before he was healed, help]

... what do you make of history, dear Cetus? Do you believe it unchanging, or malleable?

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[your grandpa snail pace jiji]

Time travel's not exactly my thing.

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[yea he's slow,]

Does it need to be 'your thing' for you to possess an opinion on it?

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[cetus will at least... adjust their own pace...]

I haven't spent much time thinking on things that I'd never expect to be relevant to me.

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[thanks cetus!]

Oh, not one for thought experiments?

I suppose you did mention that you feel very focused upon your duty.

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Mm.

... Although I guess I answered your question, in a way. If time travel is possible, then history can be changed.

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Fufu... so you did.

[mikazuki smiles at that, faintly. well. he supposes he does owe a little storytime given all the help cetus has been]

... but even if history can be changed, there is a current point of debate on whether or not it should be. Our mission as blades given these bodies is to protect the course of history, as ordained by the time government. They have decided that some key events are vital, and cannot be altered. That is what our enemy is trying to do - divert the course of history by affecting key people or points.

[ . . . ]

But I think history closer to a great river - more than one might expect, it can find its course again.

Sometimes... I admire those who can simply do as they are told.

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[...]

I'm not really an expert on how "time" works. But it's probably as you say—it's less about whether specific events stay the same, as so much the ultimate impact it leaves. But people might argue about how much influence even small events have, I guess.

... I imagine it's hard to just leave things be, if you can avert tragedy.