Atem decides not to draw attention to it. Instead, he just keeps going, as they talk.]
Right. He'd mentioned something similar to me, a while ago. It sounded like a complicated situation!
[Pet, pet, pet.
Everything's fine.
(It's not fine. The board is broken. There's blood on their back door. Their friends are recovering from deaths and murders, by their own hands and by their doubles'. Atem has even more memories that don't belong to him floating around in his mind. And he's tired, so tired...)
He's here, and he's him, so it's fine. He feels a little better. Ryou feels a little better. It's fine, for now.]
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Oh, how very good.
Atem decides not to draw attention to it. Instead, he just keeps going, as they talk.]
Right. He'd mentioned something similar to me, a while ago. It sounded like a complicated situation!
[Pet, pet, pet.
Everything's fine.
(It's not fine. The board is broken. There's blood on their back door. Their friends are recovering from deaths and murders, by their own hands and by their doubles'. Atem has even more memories that don't belong to him floating around in his mind. And he's tired, so tired...)
He's here, and he's him, so it's fine. He feels a little better. Ryou feels a little better. It's fine, for now.]