Unbidden, Yasusada thinks of what Wei Wuxian told him on the bus. The idea of Kanesada dying is hard enough to wrap his head around--he hasn't forgotten that those from the ship had more or less "failed". How differently would he have acted, if things had ended badly at the castle?
In a situation like that, he's pretty sure he knows what choices he would've made.]
Those places affected us a lot, didn't they.
[Yasusada's been dealing with these games for 15 weeks, at this point. He hadn't realized just how much his time in the castle had affected his choices here, not until he made his most important choice.]
[ he's learned that far too well over the past few weeks. things that would have never bothered him once now lock him up in a swirl of emotions. certain phrases or words trigger strong reactions. it's like watching their masters come back from war, distrusting of everyone but their most closely kept men. ]
These games have affected us quite more strongly than I had anticipated.
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Unbidden, Yasusada thinks of what Wei Wuxian told him on the bus. The idea of Kanesada dying is hard enough to wrap his head around--he hasn't forgotten that those from the ship had more or less "failed". How differently would he have acted, if things had ended badly at the castle?
In a situation like that, he's pretty sure he knows what choices he would've made.]
Those places affected us a lot, didn't they.
[Yasusada's been dealing with these games for 15 weeks, at this point. He hadn't realized just how much his time in the castle had affected his choices here, not until he made his most important choice.]
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[ he's learned that far too well over the past few weeks. things that would have never bothered him once now lock him up in a swirl of emotions. certain phrases or words trigger strong reactions. it's like watching their masters come back from war, distrusting of everyone but their most closely kept men. ]
These games have affected us quite more strongly than I had anticipated.