( Easier to say it that way, to say please, and to say thank you, than to grant people permission to do anything when he feels they should simply do as they will. He doesn't want to navigate it for them right now, lacking that particular focus, that will; so he nods and bows his head to Xiao Ki, and that is as much as he can say, in this place where he's already in this room, where the hall bears the one shared bathroom, where he can drown himself in heat for a moment not because he needs it, not even for wanting it, but for the shock of the difference.
The cold of the rain had been welcome in a different, wonderful way, but absent the rain, left only soaked, it has lost its comfort. Now it is an annoyance, and he, bearing with it in poor humour. )
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( Easier to say it that way, to say please, and to say thank you, than to grant people permission to do anything when he feels they should simply do as they will. He doesn't want to navigate it for them right now, lacking that particular focus, that will; so he nods and bows his head to Xiao Ki, and that is as much as he can say, in this place where he's already in this room, where the hall bears the one shared bathroom, where he can drown himself in heat for a moment not because he needs it, not even for wanting it, but for the shock of the difference.
The cold of the rain had been welcome in a different, wonderful way, but absent the rain, left only soaked, it has lost its comfort. Now it is an annoyance, and he, bearing with it in poor humour. )