[Matoba finally says awkwardly, at a length, and looks away.]
[He doesn't quite know exactly what he's thanking him for. It was a pointless gesture; he'd lost the sleeves first to fight, and then to swim, but somehow with the heavy, soaked fabric pooled around him now, he felt a little more... laced-up?]
[They've finally made it to the island proper, to the mysterious and tree, and yet nothing happened when they did. It feels like sort of an anticlimactic end to an adventure that has been strange from start to finish. He thinks he got the answers he wanted out of Hien when he called him out here, and yet they've only left him feeling more baffled.]
[Just what side was he on?]
[Always figure them out before they figure out you.]
[The fist over his kimono tightens, feeling an uncertain dread in his veins warring with an unfamiliar desire.]
no subject
[Matoba finally says awkwardly, at a length, and looks away.]
[He doesn't quite know exactly what he's thanking him for. It was a pointless gesture; he'd lost the sleeves first to fight, and then to swim, but somehow with the heavy, soaked fabric pooled around him now, he felt a little more... laced-up?]
[They've finally made it to the island proper, to the mysterious and tree, and yet nothing happened when they did. It feels like sort of an anticlimactic end to an adventure that has been strange from start to finish. He thinks he got the answers he wanted out of Hien when he called him out here, and yet they've only left him feeling more baffled.]
[Just what side was he on?]
[Always figure them out before they figure out you.]
[The fist over his kimono tightens, feeling an uncertain dread in his veins warring with an unfamiliar desire.]