ledbythewind | APPOINTMENTS POST

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APPOINTMENTS POST

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GO NUTS.

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To be fair, a lot of typical American food really came from somewhere else originally. It's kind of a mixed pot that way.

[He fills two bowls with soup and sticks one in the microwave. Classy.]

I wanted to take a trip there someday, but the opportunity never came up.

[... oh. Of course. Being a king may give Richard the ability to grant many wishes to his friends, but that isn't one of them.]

... if you could visit any kind of place in the world that you wanted, where would you go?

Any place? Geez, I dunno.

...Maybe Paris.

What about a city with fountains and canals everywhere, a veritable jewel box amidst the scorching desert sands?

Like... somewhere in Egypt?

[Isamu blinks, confused, as he takes one bowl of soup out of the microwave and sticks in the second.]

Is this in your world?

Yu Liberte, the capital city of Strahta, blessed by the water eleth from Strahta's valkines. No matter how many times I visit it, it never ceases to be just as stunning. It truly is a remarkable city.

That sounds like a bunch of nonsense, but I'll take your word for it, seeing as you've been there and I haven't. I'm sure it's wonderful.

[His face falls slightly, though he tries not to let it show.]

I'll take you there someday when we return to Ephinea.

...Yeah. I'd probably like that.

[If that day ever comes.

Oh look, soup is done. Isamu grabs a bowl in each hand and brings them over to the table.]

I'm sure you will.

[When the soup is set in front of him, he picks up his spoon and then just sort of... stares down at it, trying to work up the will to eat.]

[Isamu has no such hang-ups, and he digs into his bowl almost immediately.]

Mmm-mm. I'm eating it, Richard. You've gotta go through with your end of the deal.

[Richard glances up at him, then scoops up a spoonful of soup. He blows on it for a moment to cool it down; once he's satisfied that he won't burn his mouth, he eats it.

See? He's trying! Slowly, but he is trying.]

[Isamu's going to keep watching Richard too, just to make sure he keeps at it.

He'll finish his own bowl completely, scraping the last bits of it from the bottom of the bowl with his spoon.]

[He keeps at it for a few more bites in a valiant effort, but at last he stops, just staring down at the bowl.

He can't help it; it's so hard not to think of Sanji and the way the other man would occasionally plunk food down in front of him in Seventh Heaven with the wordless expectation that he eat it.]

Come on, man. It's just one bowl of soup. It'll warm you right up.

[Isamu might not be Sanji, but he can still try to keep Richard fed all the same.]

[Isamu's words induce him to scoop up one more spoonful, yet he can't even get it halfway to his mouth before he lowers it down into the bowl again.

Damn it. The more he tries not to think about Sanji, the harder it becomes not to do so.]

I know you're upset.

[Dammit, Richard. Isamu is supposed to be the difficult one.]

But this isn't going to help anything.

And you aren't?

[It's harsher than he meant it to come out, but the sentiment still stands.]

Why are you trying to pretend this isn't hurting you too? You aren't fooling anyone, especially not me.

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What do you want me to say?

[His voice gets a few degrees colder.]

Do you want me to break down too?

I want to see that you feel something over this.

[Because he doesn't want to be the only one hurting, as selfish as it may be.]

Of course I feel something.

[The words come out in a hiss now.]

Sanji was my friend too. I don't work for free for just any idiot.

But someone has to keep a cool head about it. Sanji would keep a cool head about it.

Do I look like Sanji to you?

[Richard's tone is equally cold. This is hitting a sore spot for him; in his mind, it comes uncomfortably close to people telling him that he needs to be more like someone else.]

No. And I wouldn't expect you to be. That's not what I'm saying.

I want you to be able to get upset.

[Richard just shakes his head, a sad little smile playing at the corners of his lips.]

And I want the same thing for you. I'm grateful for what you do, but you shouldn't feel like you always have to be strong for me, Isamu. Let me be a shoulder for you sometimes, too.

I'm not strong, though! I told you about what I did.

This is all I can do now.

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