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[outsidebones]

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[ktiseos]

Harrowhark.

[he gives her a nod, when she comes to the door.

and then is silent for a few moments, like he didn't... fully think about what to say when he arrived here.]

I- expect you prefer to stay in. There is... nothing you require, is there?

[outsidebones]

There is nothing I require, no.

[yes unfortunately she's very awkward and closed off about these things. it's not that she minds him coming, but she doesn't know a middle ground between pathetic sobbing in front of everyone and being buttoned up.]

...I'm sorry to have behaved so childishly.

[ktiseos]

[sometimes... you are both the awkward nerd.]

I do not believe that I would call it childish, personally.

[outsidebones]

Hmm. Well, I hold myself to a higher standard than you do, I suppose.

[sorry...........................she's mean when she's sad, too.]

[ktiseos]

You hold yourself to a higher one than the majority of your kind bother to, at the least.

[outsidebones]

A low bar.

[ktiseos]

Well, yes. A short life lends itself to that all too well.

There are still too many who fail to clear it.

[outsidebones]

As you say.

[she fiddles with her sleeve, looking away.]

All the same, it was not how I ought to have handled that.

[ktiseos]

...we were all under pressure, by then. It is, ultimately, very little time to put everything together.

[outsidebones]

That's a poor excuse. I ought to have solved Kaeya's murder.

[ktiseos]

As should we all have. We enter into these efforts together, thus it is a failing of all of us as a whole.

[outsidebones]

[an angry huff.]

I don't see it that way. I don't tend to expect others to carry me where I fail.

[ktiseos]

We carry others far more, frankly.

[he can think of some people.]

Do you see it as your responsibility only, then?