[Switching posting order with Kurogane with permission!]
If the people they'd seen in town were the innocent civilians in this world, they did indeed have a more problems than any of them had a chance of overcoming. Especially if whatever strange happenings in town were common every night. And if it went even beyond this institution, then maybe there was some truth to what he was saying.
At the mention of their incentive, Yuuhi glanced cautiously from the doctor to the others, though his gaze didn't linger before the doctor's found him. He shifted slightly in his seat, heels of his boots quietly scuffing the floor. Once again, the man didn't seem to be lying. As bitter as many of his truths had been, they were still truths. And Yuuhi had yet to see otherwise. At least, not up close.
He knew he should be jumping at this chance; the doctor had everything he needed to make things better, to finally fix all that had gone wrong. But just as it'd been as a child and when he met the time witch, a price had to be paid. Betrayal, pure and simple. Before he'd said it didn't matter who he hurt as long as he could bring Fai back, but that was long before he'd come to know each of the people he traveled with. And it wasn't just them either. There were new friends, new people he cared about here. Could he cast them aside? If the doctor was telling the truth, it would save the innocents of this world, but...
"There's someone I want to bring back," he said quietly, wringing his hands in his lap as he glanced down at the floor. "You did it before, for me after that..." he trailed off, not wishing to think on it. They both knew what he was referring to, and what the implication was.
"If that's too much, just tell me how it's done, that's enough." There was Ashura too, of course, but his brother came first. If he had Fai back, even that wouldn't seem so impossible. A life here, difficult as it might be, had to be better than death, and infinitely better than waiting out their days in that cold, frozen tower. Kurogane and the other could hate him if they liked, judge him, try to make him change his mind, but he'd made his choice a long time ago.
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If the people they'd seen in town were the innocent civilians in this world, they did indeed have a more problems than any of them had a chance of overcoming. Especially if whatever strange happenings in town were common every night. And if it went even beyond this institution, then maybe there was some truth to what he was saying.
At the mention of their incentive, Yuuhi glanced cautiously from the doctor to the others, though his gaze didn't linger before the doctor's found him. He shifted slightly in his seat, heels of his boots quietly scuffing the floor. Once again, the man didn't seem to be lying. As bitter as many of his truths had been, they were still truths. And Yuuhi had yet to see otherwise. At least, not up close.
He knew he should be jumping at this chance; the doctor had everything he needed to make things better, to finally fix all that had gone wrong. But just as it'd been as a child and when he met the time witch, a price had to be paid. Betrayal, pure and simple. Before he'd said it didn't matter who he hurt as long as he could bring Fai back, but that was long before he'd come to know each of the people he traveled with. And it wasn't just them either. There were new friends, new people he cared about here. Could he cast them aside? If the doctor was telling the truth, it would save the innocents of this world, but...
"There's someone I want to bring back," he said quietly, wringing his hands in his lap as he glanced down at the floor. "You did it before, for me after that..." he trailed off, not wishing to think on it. They both knew what he was referring to, and what the implication was.
"If that's too much, just tell me how it's done, that's enough." There was Ashura too, of course, but his brother came first. If he had Fai back, even that wouldn't seem so impossible. A life here, difficult as it might be, had to be better than death, and infinitely better than waiting out their days in that cold, frozen tower. Kurogane and the other could hate him if they liked, judge him, try to make him change his mind, but he'd made his choice a long time ago.