[He's already planning it out. Add more work - more of those quests. If he's going to give in to this - allow himself the touch, the affection, then it must come out another way. Mustn't it? He abandoned them.]
[He has to pay for it somehow.]
Thank you. I - am glad to see you. Please, don't think otherwise.
[Because he knows his reaction has been muted. He knows Gojyo, of all people, can tell. He's being honest now, and it comes much easier. This feeling of right oozing its way into his bones and loosening the lock on his tongue.]
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[He has to pay for it somehow.]
Thank you. I - am glad to see you. Please, don't think otherwise.
[Because he knows his reaction has been muted. He knows Gojyo, of all people, can tell. He's being honest now, and it comes much easier. This feeling of right oozing its way into his bones and loosening the lock on his tongue.]