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[onerous]

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"Um. Kozukata Yuri."

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[onerous]

[There's almost no difference between her in the prison and her out of it-- she's quiet and serious, trying to betray nothing as she approaches.

(there's a slight furrow in her brow, the corner of her mouth turned down a little too sharply to be anything but anxiety and unease)

It disappears into a look of bafflement when she stops and he offers the cat.]

It-- What? [Eloquent. She looks at it then to him, eyes wide] Why? [She blurts it out and then realizes immediately how poor a reaction that was; her ears turn red and she reaches for the cat, taking it carefully.]

Sorry, I mean... Thank you. Did you make this yourself?

[covenantal]

[ He's a little surprised when her reaction is so ... marked, and he couldn't help but notice the furrow in her brow from when she approached, too. There's clearly a lot going on, here, just like before. He worries for her. The cat, well...

... the cat was to try and alleviate a little bit of that. Did he go overboard...?

That her first reaction was to wonder why - to be so surprised that someone would give her such a small, simple gift ...

What does that say for her life?

All he does is smile a little, giving her a nod. ]

Yeah. I had a little time. As for why... I didn't know what you liked, but I thought this would be cuter than a crane.

[onerous]

...I like cats. [She mutters it, carefully holding the paper cat so as not to accidentally damage it, and smiles a little. Lee gave her things all the time--flowers, mostly--so she's come to expect it from him, but other people? Not so much.

She looks up and nods as well, posture relaxing] Thank you again. Um. [She felt like she'd come into this semi-prepared, but this has thrown it all a little off-track.] Should we walk while we talk? I want to know everything that's happened.

[covenantal]

[ The mutter wins a grin. Well, at least he picked the right animal. (And anyone who likes cats is good in his book, really.)

But it tones down again at her suggestion, and he nods, tilting his head for her to follow him as he leads the way. ]

Yeah. There's a lot to go over. [ His smile disappears completely in favor of a thoughtful look as he debates how to even approach this. ] It might be easiest to just tell you what happened ... after. [ He states it simply, without inflection. After you died. ]

[onerous]

[She winces a little. 'After.' Yeah, she knows what that means.

She says nothing for a moment, just following after him, before she finally makes a noise of agreement.] Mm. That'd be a good idea. After Mars and I-- After that happened... What happened to the other spirits?

[Of course that's her first question, thoughts going for the spirits that had been trapped] I think we saved them all, but... I wanted to make sure.

[covenantal]

... there were no other spirits.

[ He says this without inflection, though his eyes are partly lidded, his expression serious. He does give her one brief, encouraging smile. ]

You saved everyone that had been trapped, don't worry about that. All that was left was what killed you.

[ This he says straightforwardly. He doesn't say it with any hardness in his voice, or harshly. A grim thoughtfulness overtakes him. ]

It was a guard. A robot, actually. It materialized to speak to Merlin and Hyoubu-san and I. It was what had been keeping the spirits trapped there all that time.

[onerous]

Oh. [It's said on a rush of an exhale, Yuri's eyes closing briefly as she pauses in her walking to take the information in.] So we did it after all... [She's glad about that, truly; it's a relief to know they were able to keep up their end of the bargain even at the cost of her life.

The talk of a robot guard has her frowning even as she starts walking again.] A robot guard? Did you learn anything?