[ Bred by humans... in a stable? Like horses? That’s... ]
Wish I’d known that then.
[ He feels a pang of regret, somehow, as if knowing this, maybe the ugliness of some — most — of Simon’s conversations with Hayame could have been avoided. That he would have been better at talking to her without letting her get to him or trying so hard to make her see things a different way. Maybe. But she wouldn’t have told him any of this, and even Simon doesn’t have the mental gymnastics skills to pretend that none of that ugliness was just him at his worst, no matter what “provoked” it. Like the lack of this knowledge she never even owed him, anyway.
And watching Konoha, he’s eager to maybe stop thinking about this thing he’ll never be able to rectify. ] She didn’t wear, uh... clothes on her back half, either.
I thought it was normal.
[ .....but both of the jinba here cover their horse butts..... ]
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Wish I’d known that then.
[ He feels a pang of regret, somehow, as if knowing this, maybe the ugliness of some — most — of Simon’s conversations with Hayame could have been avoided. That he would have been better at talking to her without letting her get to him or trying so hard to make her see things a different way. Maybe. But she wouldn’t have told him any of this, and even Simon doesn’t have the mental gymnastics skills to pretend that none of that ugliness was just him at his worst, no matter what “provoked” it. Like the lack of this knowledge she never even owed him, anyway.
And watching Konoha, he’s eager to maybe stop thinking about this thing he’ll never be able to rectify. ] She didn’t wear, uh... clothes on her back half, either.
I thought it was normal.
[ .....but both of the jinba here cover their horse butts..... ]