𝚒𝚗𝚋𝚘𝚡 — 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚗𝚒𝚊.

[sacral]

EVEN WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS

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a blind minstrel...

[sacral]

Over?

[hallowedly]

Death and dreams, as it were. The usual fare.

[sacral]

No. I wouldn't call it anger.

[hallowedly]

( A beat. ) How are you?

[sacral]

[ Bluntly: ] Too awake.

[hallowedly]

Ah, I'm inconvenient.

[sacral]

Not what I said.

[hallowedly]

You've hardly been saying anything, for some time. ( Steel edge, serrated. Snagging. ) Let's try again. Subaru-kun, how are you today?

[sacral]

[ Its cutting hits nothing but give. ]

I'm alright. Awake, because I slept too long and spilt too much into the sea.

And yourself?

[hallowedly]

...unrelatedly impatient and seemingly ill mannered. I apologise.

I expect you've seen him. I also expect you'd have been... vocal if you had seen the other. It didn't occur to me that he would allow them to be apart.

[sacral]

It may be that the will of our host is at least equal to his, when it comes to this. [ In power and petulance both... ] But you're talking about Shirou Kamui.

I met him, yes. Not for very long.

[hallowedly]

You enjoy this part, don't you? Where I tease and taunt every word out of your mouth.

Truly, Lady Sumeragi's grandson.

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So I've been told.

If you also met him, I imagine he had even less to say.

[hallowedly]

What business is he of mine, anymore?

I expect Subaru-kun's corporate loyalties are more complicated.