[Ryou curls up tighter, his eyes half-closing. He feels selfish for thinking it, but this feels like such an empty exchange. He knows Atem's been struggling, and that's why he'd tried to keep it out of Atem's mind by hanging around Yugi. Well...that and he has spent a deplorably short amount of time with Yugi, other than whapping him in the face with his tail before the second fog.
It...feels as if he had made the wrong decision here, with regard to Atem's feelings. He's saying he's not upset...but he is...isn't he? Ryou has failed, as he always does, in doing the correct thing.
But he can't bring himself to move away anyway. No more than he can stop talking, because then it really will look as if he's withholding information, rather than feeling upset.]
He told me I was tainted by the fog.
[He doesn't elaborate past that. He's still weighing out whether he wants to elaborate past that.]
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[Ryou curls up tighter, his eyes half-closing. He feels selfish for thinking it, but this feels like such an empty exchange. He knows Atem's been struggling, and that's why he'd tried to keep it out of Atem's mind by hanging around Yugi. Well...that and he has spent a deplorably short amount of time with Yugi, other than whapping him in the face with his tail before the second fog.
It...feels as if he had made the wrong decision here, with regard to Atem's feelings. He's saying he's not upset...but he is...isn't he? Ryou has failed, as he always does, in doing the correct thing.
But he can't bring himself to move away anyway. No more than he can stop talking, because then it really will look as if he's withholding information, rather than feeling upset.]
He told me I was tainted by the fog.
[He doesn't elaborate past that. He's still weighing out whether he wants to elaborate past that.]