text (un: natsume.t)

[mingling]

It's a little weird, right?

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un: p.hale

[deceitful]

Do you dislike it?

[mingling]

Weird things?
Everyone deals with them from time to time

[Which is not exactly what was asked—that's deliberate.]

[deceitful]

Not on this scale, I don't think. Being taken from what was technically your home is more traumatic than weird, wouldn't you say?

[mingling]

People don't always get to choose where they go

[A larger scale, yeah, but Natsume has been displaced from so many homes that it feels like a fact of life. He's taking this unbelonging business to heart.]

[deceitful]

But they don't have to be satisfied with where they are. No one is completely incapable of changing their circumstances.

[mingling]

If you don't have to have something, [like satisfaction,] then it's okay to go without it.

[Kind of turning that assertion on its head, but there you go.]

[deceitful]

Are you okay with going with it here, too?

[mingling]

There's no reason I shouldn't get along here.

[deceitful]

It must be nice to be so easygoing.

[mingling]

[He prickles. It's internal—even if he wanted to push it out externally, it's all focused inward.]

Yeah. It is nice.

[A lame response, but he never claimed to be good at talking to people.]