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[ Hello my good sir there's just someone staring off out into the ice rink lake... It's Tokinaga. It occurs to me that I have not threaded with Yosuke while he was in the wheelchair lmk if I should waddle to your tl but for now he's standing. Totally fine and without a cane actually, but he kind of weirdly looks weighed down anyway.

Also he does not have an eyepatch. ]

[ i will never say no to more lowe in my inbox 🥺 it can always be a day where his river curse is off too if you don't want to deal with the text.

for now though, he's definitely just going ?? at the appearance of a normal-depression-flavor tokinaga with both eyes and standing without a cane. obviously he will approach though... ]

... see anything interesting out there?

Oh... Hello.

[ Just glancing over at him. ]

...No, not really. Well, it's different from the city, so that's... interesting?

Yeah, that's sorta how I felt the first time, too. You don't get open space like this in an urban area, right? [ he tilts his head in thought. ] Never been ice skating before or anything?

[ like. how early did your life start tanking, sir. ]

Not often. You'd have to go pretty far to get some wilderness... but I just kind of wanted to get far away for a bit.

[ He shakes his head though. No ice skating. ]

Hours, sometimes. Closer to the mountains is usually a safe bet. [ but hm... ]

Feeling a little claustrophobic there? [ he's weighing the pros and cons of dragging the guy out skating. ]

Going to Tama didn't feel like enough, so I came to Saga.

[ ...which he's not sure this still is. ]

Claustrophobic... uh, kind of. Maybe.

Makes sense. Sometimes you get somewhere and decide it doesn't feel like the final destination. [ but hum... ]

Not sure about that one?

I just really wanted to go somewhere far away and different.

Well... if you're going somewhere far and different, we should do something far and different. [ a nod to the ice. we can ignore the memories that show up, surely. ]

I've come to find that sometimes going somewhere else ends up answering a lot of questions I didn't know I had.

...I guess that's probably what I'm doing.

[ He really didn't set out to Saga with any plans in mind. He stares out at the ice. ]

There?

Unless you have somewhere else you'd like to go? But you're here and you were looking at it, so... why not?

[ he figures tokinaga was actually looking at it just because it was there and not for any reason in particular, but. ]

Uh... no. Not really. I have to check in at the place I'm staying but I should be fine as long as I do that at some point during today.

You look like a student.

Probably because I am a student. [ he says this so easily like it's a little funny. ] That okay? There's still a lot of time left in today, checking in won't take long. You're planning to stay a while?

[ he's mostly asking questions to see if he can understand what might've been going on here. ]

That's fine, but you don't have class today? [ What fucking day is it. ] I'm staying about a week...

School holiday. [ easy lie. ] To be honest? I could use the break, too. Not too bad of a place to take it.

I hope so.

...Are you from around? What's good to look at around here?

[ Said like he truly doesn't have any plans beside wander around, even if it's on top of lake ice. Watching his feet... he doesn't seem worried about the ice giving, he's just vaguely fascinated by the frozen texture and whatever he can make out through the frost. ]

I've been here for a while. [ which is true and a close enough answer. ] What sort of things are you interested in? We can try skating, or there're a couple of libraries, there's food, a movie theater, a lab...

[ he's also glancing at the ice to see if anything happens to show up because he has no idea how to explain that one. ]

...Whatever is the most distracting. Did you just say a lab?

[ He only points it out because it was a funny outlier among the ones he listed. Really he's probably thinking library or movie or... maybe he'll just walk around anyway.

Remember that story Tokinaga told you ages ago about a drowning kid. We can see that reflected on the ice, while Tokinaga just absently rubs his eyes. He thinks he's just seeing stuff. ]

...uh... I don't know if I have the coordination to skate, I've never tried.

I did just say a lab. [ he's about to say something else, but his eyes are drifting to the ice and he frowns softly. what the fuck?

okay. what if we don't hang out on the ice? ]

Let's not worry about that. Sometimes it's easier just to walk around and see what catches your eye. We don't have to have an actual destination yet.

[ perhaps... a little explore. ]

Might not be as many options as the city, but that might even be better.

That's fine... I wanted to get away from the city.

[ He looks vaguely disturbed by the vision of memory in the glass, of the bully screaming and kicking while baby Tokinaga in his swim cap with both eyes just watches on, bleeding from his scratches. He does not realise this is visible to Yosuke also. ]

I didn't have any particular plans anyway.

[ sorry, he's 100% distracted watching the ice because this is a lot. this is a lot? THIS IS A LOT. ]

—right. Then... why ruin it with having plans, right? Let's just go take a walk and see what sticks out to you.

Yeah.

[ Sticking his hands into his pockets. ]

Don't you have any plans yourself?

[ he shrugs, stepping onto the ice just on top of the memory in the reflection so nobody can see it anymore. ]

Let's just say I'm flexible. Besides, don't you think this kind of thing is better with another person?

I... guess so...

[ In the sense of it logically pans out but he's not sure himself. ]

Just don't want to bore you.

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