mykidisthebest

I will wake you if it begins to seem counterproductive, yes.

But you should be taking better care of yourself anyway.

I do take care of myself. I can't sleep well due to situations beyond my control. As soon as we can corner Blossom I'll fix it.

This experiment proved to be a perfectly good workaround. We just have to modify the command slightly.

Maybe. I don't like the idea of sleeping through an emergency either.

[STILL FOND]

You're worse than I am.

I would like to decline to comment at this juncture.

My stats are a little better than yours, though. You have to let me help where I can.

Don't I? I'm well aware I can't do everything alone.

[stubbornly]

Let me help even more. It'll put me at ease.

[leans into him a little]

You already do so much. What more would you add?

[exhales and leans back, mulling the question over]

I don't know. I could just start Awakening everyone in the pasture...the cooldown would make the process pretty slow, but making everyone more durable wouldn't be a bad idea. That sounds useful, doesn't it?

[lethe???]

Not that it's not potentially very useful, yes...but would your mana keep pace with such an endeavor?

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Yeah, that's not an issue. It doesn't take that much mana to Awaken someone. The issue is that it's permanent. Going back home as an Awakened person would be tricky for most people.

Because of their need for dungeon resources to keep life manageable, you mean?

There is that. But on a more basic level, it's hard being different from other people.

[skill issue]

Ah.

You're afraid of ruining lives as the price for fixing short-term problems.

[Charon????]

Pretty much. I also don't want everyone being Awakened to cause more problems in the pasture, which it might. Our abilities are already dampened so I don't know if it would make a huge difference.

[sighs, soft and tired]

I'm just trying to think of something that would help.

[he's considered himself different from other people all his life ok. maybe not in as literal a way as Lethe means here but.

smooths a hand over the back of Lethe's head, down his nape and shoulder]

I was considering. Coming back around to asking you.

[Charon can feel Lethe's surprise, spine straightening as he sits up a little more]

Wh--Really? What made you think about it?

. . .

The prospect of longevity becomes much less horrifying, when one finds themselves in a situation with near-endless prospects, and everything to live for.

I still want to die, of course. But perhaps it would be good to not simply resign myself to the constraints that I was born with. If the circumstances have changed for the better, I would like . . . to change with them.

...Is that the only reason?

[he takes on the very distinct air of a cat who's been caught in the act of eating the ham sandwich you left on the counter and is now making direct eye contact while it decides what to do]

. . .

[makes direct eye contact and waits to see if Charon is going to say something first or if he has to]

. . .

[stares down at Lethe's face, then looks away for a moment to dispel the tension, taking a deep breath]

. . . I don't want to die before the people I care about. And you're all--

[flinches guiltily oops oops oops]

My lifespan is--normal.

But Yoohyun's isn't, is it?

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