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Oh. [She feels like maybe she should have known that, but she's quietly thinking that over. Sometimes...things happen.] Do you miss them? [Is that why you don't connect to people, you small terror?]

[soba]

[ ... he considers that. ]

I try not to think about it too much.

[cluedin]

Makes sense. Most people don't like to dwell on those things. [And so they start the game.] Is your brother older or younger?

[soba]

Older. He's an adult.

[ time to see which of them is worse at this game. ]

[cluedin]

[Given that Peach's strategy is just mashing buttons and accidentally making combos work, probably Toi...]

Then why isn't he the one taking responsibility?

[soba]

He is!

... I guess. He's been doing what he can, but it means he has to leave a lot...

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But you still have to do things that are wrong and could get you in trouble. It just doesn't sound very fair, you know? [Not that it's about being fair, and given her expression she seems to acknowledge that as it is.] ...where does he go?

[soba]

[ she... is not wrong there, so he doesn't argue with her about it. ]

I don't know. There's a lot about him I don't know about, apparently.

[cluedin]

[Fuck you Francy I had to leave this tag alone because I got sad for Toi all over again.]

...sounds pretty lonely, actually. You don't have a lot of friends or anything either, right?

[soba]

[ stop!!

he shakes his head, but then pauses as he reconsiders that. ]

Before I came here... I made two, pretty recently. But I had to leave them to stay with my brother.

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...are you ever going to get to see them again when you return home?

[soba]

... no, probably not.

[cluedin]

...that sounds even worse then. [No parents, no brother, no friends...] What if you found a way?

[soba]

... I'm not really sure how that'll be possible.

[cluedin]

Why not? You're still in the same world and stuff aren't you?

[soba]

... distance can be more complicated than that.

[cluedin]

...you mean something that isn't physical distance, don't you?

[soba]

[ he just nods ]

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Do your friends know why you had to leave? And about your situation?

[soba]

[ he nods ]

You know how we had that one week where people saw each other's memories? Back home, we had to go through something similar because of the kappa stuff. So, they... saw stuff, about me.

[cluedin]

...is that how all kappas usually work? [The fuck.]

[soba]

... probably not normally?

But to accomplish something we're doing, it's just sort of something that needs to happen.

[cluedin]

You know the next question is what were you doing. It sounds kind of important.

[soba]

... we were collecting things called Dishes of Hope. If we got five of them, we'd be granted a wish.

[cluedin]

But how do you collect them? What were you trying to wish for? [She has a lot of questions?]