AUDIENCE FOR: Mikazuki Munechika

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[hehe

he will at least pour the sake for them both, offering a cup out to cetus]

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Thank you.

[they will take it but they'll be polite and wait for mikazuki before going for it.]

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[mikazuki will just have his sake then!

. . . and laughs a bit afterward]

Perhaps I ought stick to tea.

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[they take a sip.]

Not a fan?

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I would not provide you a sake I did not enjoy.

But I had hoped the taste would do more for the bitterness on my tongue than it has.

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[wryly]

Maybe you should consider sweets.

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Oh.

[he will reach into his sleeve.....

and pull out some candy!! he places one in cetus' hand even if they didn't ask]

There you are, my dear.

[LIKE CETUS WAS JUST TRYNA GET SOME SWEETS]

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please]

Thank you, Mikazuki.

[and then

they place it back in mikazuki's hand]

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[ ?

he's going to

catch cetus' hand before they entirely pull away]

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[I GUESS MIKAZUKI JUST HAS CETUS'S HAND NOW]

... Yes?

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[he does. it's his]

You do not wish for candy? Or is strawberry not to your liking?

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[dryly]

I was advising that you eat it, actually.

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I have enough to share.

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... Well, I can't deny that.

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[then he will gently squeeze cetus' hand

and replace the candy in it

before going to get his own candy]

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[thanks jiji

i suppose they are now eating candy with their sake]

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[you're welcome

mikazuki will also have his and hum thoughtfully]

... marginally better, I suppose.

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... I think nothing will fully erase that taste tonight.

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An old man cannot be faulted for trying.

[but he will have more of his sake... he will refill his cup and cetus' periodically]

Even if I do not mind feeling the full spectrum of emotion that this heart allows...

I still find myself wondering how others have lived with this all their existence.

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[...]

A sentiment that I've heard is that it's those who live long lives that take the longest to move on.

For those who know they have mortal lifespans, many realize at heart that they don't have the time to hold onto this grief forever. [a pause] Though conversely, a few weeks or months isn't a short time to them, either.

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... well, time itself is something that is something I have a tenuous grasp on at best.

[if only because he knows it so intimately.]

What of you, dear Cetus? Do you consider yourself the type to linger?

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I wouldn't worry about me. [wryly,] The advantage of experience is that if you try, you learn how to handle your emotions.

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I always worry about you.

[he doesn't answer the second part right away,

but this is easy]

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And I am always touched.

[as they nonchalantly sip their sake.]

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