preowned | kaeya

[ the wisteria trees are... really nice, to be honest. he just waves back and will flop down nearby, just as flat. polaris is trotting over nearby, also flopping between the both of them to just vibe alongside them. ]

Hello...

That was... [ he looks upwards at the branches ] something. Sad... hopeful...

We'll get them back...

It's a good reminder that we're all on the same side here, isn't it?

[ the promise to come back to this side. to save someone dear. ]

It's sometimes easy to lose track of that in a trial.

So it is... ultimately, these keepers in our scenarios are always going to incite us to do our best... too succeed even if it's the last thing we want to do.

[ he lingers over the words, has turned them over in his head for the past hour. ]

The suite is quiet without him. I hate it.

It doesn't really get any louder.

[ he thinks about flayn. ]

Did you speak often?

We spoke enough and Pol was... pretty fond, I'd say.

Did you?

A little.

[ a pause ]

Admittedly, I don't think he knew how to interact with me.

And how do you prefer to be interacted with?

[ he laughs a little ]

Honestly, I... believe he was an awkward conversationalist, but. Not a bad man. My hope is that they'll take good care of him on the other side, and his conviction will carry him back to us.

I believe he simply thought I was too strange to deal with.

[ it's said a little fondly. humans are funny. ]

... but I think he'll definitely return. They all will.

What have you been up to under these trees... just thinking?

Yeah.

[ it seems like that's all he's going to say, but a moment later he continues, ]

We really just have to keep doing this over and over. You'd think it would get boring, after a while.

Unfortunately... according to our contract, roughly eight weeks, so... we're nearly halfway there, aren't we?

[ he lets out a soft sigh ]

And it only ever gets worse, really.

I would say that we are lucking out in that only one person per week is getting compelled. Things get messy when there's multiple...

We did wake up to three at once at one point... that we certainly a trip.

[ upwards, he says pointedly to whoever is in the sky: ]

Don't get any ideas!