little smile! ... her eyes seem hollow, they hold neiter constant fear like gloomy's, nor any anger like syo's. theres some kind of distanced warmth to them.

She's still Touko, at the end of the day, but its hard to tell *what* Touko.

else out of a larger "branch" she took off. she was nearly going to overprune it.

"They are for most people with bad childhoods. It took me forever to learn that not everything was a thinly-veiled attack and that I shouldnt have been expected to act like an adult all the time."

shes. kind of lost in just staring at her horse. She takes a deep breath and starts to snip something+

"I suppose, if you wanted to file it down into its results. being a better friend is only one of those things."

She seems... blunted, almost. not quite gloomy, certainly not syo.

"Its just teaching yourself how to care about others without needing to control them."

"mh..."

she thinks, for a moment, About how she wants to phrase this.

Which is extremely unlike her and should probably cause some degree of Alarm!

"... Its a skill. You could train it too, You know."

is a good talent like that. It makes her good at reading between the lines. Reading between the words, reading the room.

"... Apology Accepted. You didn't gotta get self-depricatory with it, yknow. Youre plenty smart. Can figure out a lot more shit than i can, yknow?"

She can tell when people are allergic to certain words, for whatever reason. She's allergic to the word "love". Chihiro is allergic to any lingustic variation of the word "masculine". and, it appears, Kirigiri is allergic to the word "sorry".

But she understands. she always has. Literary progeny+

had written down, a habit she had been out of for a while because they could freely share, but cant anymore.