[If Ryou has any inkling of what Atem might be thinking, he doesn't let it show. Instead, he walks in, and holds out the blood-free hot chocolate.]
Mm, I don't think that's the case, really. Not in a way that I feel lonely. Things are as close to normal as they can be in a place like this.
Between us, anyway. But...I was a little worried seeing you take on something new so soon after what you did for me.
[It's far from accusatory. More of an admission that Ryou did keep up with the network recently...and that he'd seen how Atem had reacted to the news about Sonic. Ryou, for his part, feels conflicted about the matter of Sonic, not because he wanted the boy hurt, but because he had said many thoughtless things to people Ryou cared about.
Perhaps it's the pragmatic part of Ryou, but...he feels Sonic getting hurt may have been simple causality.
That, of course, isn't the part he's focusing on for the moment.]
It's not my place to tell you what to do or anything, but I think I'm well within my rights to worry about you taking on another hard task so soon, right?
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Mm, I don't think that's the case, really. Not in a way that I feel lonely. Things are as close to normal as they can be in a place like this.
Between us, anyway. But...I was a little worried seeing you take on something new so soon after what you did for me.
[It's far from accusatory. More of an admission that Ryou did keep up with the network recently...and that he'd seen how Atem had reacted to the news about Sonic. Ryou, for his part, feels conflicted about the matter of Sonic, not because he wanted the boy hurt, but because he had said many thoughtless things to people Ryou cared about.
Perhaps it's the pragmatic part of Ryou, but...he feels Sonic getting hurt may have been simple causality.
That, of course, isn't the part he's focusing on for the moment.]
It's not my place to tell you what to do or anything, but I think I'm well within my rights to worry about you taking on another hard task so soon, right?