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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[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.