[There are a lot of things about today that plain old don't make sense, starting with waking up in this place at all, and Shinjiro has been doing his best not to think about any of them. Some of that is hard— he's not, like, skulked away to pull off his many layers and look, but the way his chest screams in protest at him every time he moves too fast or too far is a new addition to everything else wrong with him, and so persistent— but most of it is... ignorable.
Kind of. He read the parchment, with the crime? And so he's accepted this as some kind of deserved community service, or maybe just an especially weird hallucination before he drops dead, or something.
And he's accepted, too, that the others aren't here, because why should they be when Shinjiro is the only one among them with so much guilt on his conscience, and so, this part here? When he hears a familiar voice, and turns to see a familiar face? This part makes the least sense of all.]
Huh? [HUH???? Hold up,] How— What are you doing here?
[Anxiety and frustration spike in him at the same time, followed by the most tenuous little scrap of relief; he is glad to see her, somewhere under the worry about what seeing her here means. So, really, it's an average day for Shinji trying to navigate giving a damn. Ah...]
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Kind of. He read the parchment, with the crime? And so he's accepted this as some kind of deserved community service, or maybe just an especially weird hallucination before he drops dead, or something.
And he's accepted, too, that the others aren't here, because why should they be when Shinjiro is the only one among them with so much guilt on his conscience, and so, this part here? When he hears a familiar voice, and turns to see a familiar face? This part makes the least sense of all.]
Huh? [HUH???? Hold up,] How— What are you doing here?
[Anxiety and frustration spike in him at the same time, followed by the most tenuous little scrap of relief; he is glad to see her, somewhere under the worry about what seeing her here means. So, really, it's an average day for Shinji trying to navigate giving a damn. Ah...]
C'mon. ...Don't just stare at me.