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[ She winces. just a bit. and gives him the slightest pout. ]

Of course I had considered it before. But things have changed so rapidly in such a short time for you I assumed this sort of thing would naturally change as well.

I don't think it's unreasonable to be pleasantly surprised.

...

Even if I don't consider myself that person anymore, the attachments are still here.

[finally taking a sip]

Well, that's what I've been saying.

[ a pause. ]

... But I'm glad to hear it. You're very dear to me.

That's what I've also been saying.

... But I'm glad we're on the same page, in a way.

[ She smiles, small, and lifts her own cup to sip from. ]

Getting you to say it plainly is a great victory for me.

Hah. Well, at least I'm leaving on a high note.

[he reaches inside his pants pocket and pulls out a set of keys that he deposits between them, on the table. she can recognize them as his (their former) apartment's keys]

Here. I doubt you'll need the place itself, but if that ever changes...

[ pauses. Then reaches for them, delicately, with confusion. ]

Now why are you giving me these... of course I don't mind caring for it while you're on the ship, but...?

But?

I have no one else to leave it to.

[ She turns it over in her hand. What a familiar thing. ]

When you do something like this it feels as if you don't intend to come back again.

Mm, well.

I don't think there's anything left for me to do back here.

[ She's quiet, for a long moment. ]

... I see. If that's how you truly feel, I won't try to convince you.

Though I wish it were not so.

... Yeah.

A part of me also wishes that were the case. But I'm in too deep now.

I suppose it wouldn't matter. Whether you simply don't come home, or if the situation arises that we return to the lives of our visions, we would find ourselves separated regardless.

[ She puts the keys down to hold her hand out towards him, palm-up, instead. ]

[automatically gives ~~paw~~ hand]

[ smiles, curling her fingers around his warmly. ]

This is not goodbye.

[squeezes her hand lightly]

It should be, if you know what is good for you.

I'm quite capable of making my own decisions on what is and isn't good for me. Thank you for the concern.

But I'm afraid you do not have a choice in the matter. What's mine is mine, after all.

[wheeze]

W-What?

I will find you again, even if we disappear from this world.

What few things are "mine" I want to keep close to me. That girl did not have this, after all, and I have no intention of letting it go.

So remember that.

[laughs, fond]

That sounds vaguely threatening. I like it.

I thought it was pretty blatant.

[laughs]

It was. I was trying to make you look better.

But if that was the intention... well, it's not as if I could stop you, anyway.

Well, no, you couldn't. Even if you die, I could simply bring you back.

... So long as you wished it, anyway. I'd like to think I'm not entirely heartless in these matters.

[laughs, fond]

Wow. That's one of the most romantic things I've ever been told.

... I'm terribly pleased to have such an effect even now. Or perhaps moreso.

I find your newer proclivities quite charming.

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