SPACE COAST: PRIVATE CONVO: YURI

[murdergate]

[ their hair colors are cute together that's all. will replace with meme or something soon. ]

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w2; saturday post-trial

[murdergate]

[ of all places to run into one another again, nodd is in the laundry room. this time, however, as the washing spins, he has his forehead pressed to the glass, arms raised so his finger grip the edges of the machine.

whatever it takes to calm down. ]

[applebough]

[ There's something about the sound of tumbling clothes that's soothing so she's here just on her own. Then she sees Nodd and leaves the laundry room for a moment, and comes back with a handwich and bottled water. ]

... Nodd.

[ She holds them out to him. ]

[murdergate]

[ didn't even notice her come in or leave. that's where he's at mentally. then, when she does approch, says his name--

he jumps. like almost a full foot vertically before he lands, looks over his shoulder.

no words at first as he takes in what she offers. ]

...

[ looks back at spin cycle ]

I asked Temenos, before trial, to keep an eye on me. I knew. I don't deserve anything.

[ hefty word. 'deserve.' ]

[applebough]

It's not about deserving.

[ Yuri seems insistent on it. Take these!! She looks like she will try to force it down his throat if she has to. ]

So, please. Take them.

[murdergate]

[ he won't argue with her. takes the items. twists open the waterbottle. ]

I thought you were a guide, not a saint.

[applebough]

... I am neither now.

[ She quietly huffs. ]

I was also never a saint. I can't claim to be such a thing, when I left people to die before.

[murdergate]

No use keeping it private.

[ takes a big gulp off the bottle ]

I used to be a bruiser. Beat the shit and worse out of people for the stupidest little things, s'long as my group got paid. I was really good at it, too. Spent a long time just hitting where and when I was told to. It took a while to, uh. Re-align my thinking. And sometimes I backslide.

[applebough]

... It happens to the best of us.

[ Yuri quietly breathes out. ]

But I'm glad that you could still somehow leave that cycle and try to do something different. Backsliding... can't be helped.