[ Ren's eyes go as cool as the snow covering the landscape. It's impossible. But then, he has a talking cat and a creature in his subconscious that fights monsters. Maybe the impossible is just the new marching orders.
Nearly a year has passed between them, and the great detective Goro Akechi looks done and tired in a way Ren isn't sure how to name. ]
Happy almost-Valentine's Day. [ He says, blandly, the mask back up for the moment as he takes Akechi in. There's something, a spark of- Of what should be, what will be, that flickers through his mind; a dark twisted dance of fate, together.
Ren swallows. ] What happened? [ He asks, voice calculating again. ] Happens. [ He quietly corrects himself.
With a barely-audible groan, Ren changes his mind. ] Don't tell me. [ He wants to know his future. But he can't afford to change it and fuck something up.
He doesn't trust himself enough to know that he would have still stepped in to help that woman if he knew where he'd end up, after. He likes to think he would. He likes to think he'd do the right thing, no matter the consequences. ] I shouldn't know yet. [ He says, again, definitively. ]
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Nearly a year has passed between them, and the great detective Goro Akechi looks done and tired in a way Ren isn't sure how to name. ]
Happy almost-Valentine's Day. [ He says, blandly, the mask back up for the moment as he takes Akechi in. There's something, a spark of- Of what should be, what will be, that flickers through his mind; a dark twisted dance of fate, together.
Ren swallows. ] What happened? [ He asks, voice calculating again. ] Happens. [ He quietly corrects himself.
With a barely-audible groan, Ren changes his mind. ] Don't tell me. [ He wants to know his future. But he can't afford to change it and fuck something up.
He doesn't trust himself enough to know that he would have still stepped in to help that woman if he knew where he'd end up, after. He likes to think he would. He likes to think he'd do the right thing, no matter the consequences. ] I shouldn't know yet. [ He says, again, definitively. ]