( Though Hani is blunt, it does not seem to make Mithrun tender. If anything, it seems to help make it click. He studies them as they speak, the pieces slotting gently into place, and being filed away for later. )

... I see. So, even if the feelings of the person you love don't match yours, you can still be happy as long as they remain beside you.

( Despite the somewhat sensitive tone he had maintained up until now - the way he says this is strangely impersonal, like he's building a case. )

I won't be going anywhere. Not as long as I'm here. You'll be happy, then. But will it ache? Does it ache? Or is it really enough, to have me here? Will your hunger, your lack of satisfaction, haunt you?