grasshopper 28, evening

[blue_ice]

[ Kaiba appears to be spending another late night in the gaming car. He's dressed in the silver and black outfit that's usual for him now, but he appears to be nursing a cup of tea and holding his temple as well. ]

Is anyone else still feeling off after the trip? It's not a headache, and I'm not weak or dizzy, so I don't need to go to the medical car. So don't start that. But it almost feels like a constant low-level state of dreaming. Like that time on the island, when someone or something thought they had any business interfering with our relationships by exposing our private memories.

[ The anger rises in his voice with every word, only to burn out at the end. He groans and flops back into the beanbag chair ]

Did something change, or am I losing my mind here?

[ He's dreading the answer either way, so he's just going to frown at the screen before sitting back. Sorry about the waves of grump, Della. ]

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[blue_ice]

I hope not. Just...ah, I didn't want to involve anyone else like this.

[ He sighs. ]

But you came out of the memory incident all right?

[sizedoesntmatter]

It's not about involving anyone else. If it happened it just happened.

I did. Though uh... The person I was with saw the incident at Duelist Kingdom, so word of warning about that.

[At least from what he could gather she agreed that he he did wasn't right, but had an understanding to the reason behind it. So he at least knew it wasn't going to be a negative thing at least.]

[blue_ice]

The castle stunt?

[ Of course it couldn't be that easy. He paled visibly...the pain of that, and then losing anyway, had been replayed in his memory over and over again while his soul was imprisoned, with memories of Mokuba's cries taunting him over and over. So his memory was clear, and his face fell. ]

I preyed on your heart and insulted you for letting me live, while you were beaten-down and terrified for your grandfather...

...And even after that you saved my soul, but I'm not sure I would've saved his.

[ Just gonna bury his face in one hand. Ugh. ]

[sizedoesntmatter]

That's the one. That was an interesting conversation, but I can at least say that she didn't agree with the method, but understood the reason why. Which is kind of the way I saw it too. I didn't agree, but I understood why.

[It still made Yugi feel guilty that maybe things could have been different if they had just attempted to talk before. Yet he had never even thought to do that.]

But it's in the past now, we learned and moved past it.

[blue_ice]

You never would've left Mokuba behind.

[ He sounds exhausted more than anything. He's quiet for a moment before speaking again. ]

I'm sorry.

[sizedoesntmatter]

True, though unfortunately he never would have been in the situation he had been if we had just kept an eye on him and the other who caught him in the first place.

[Though how were they to know that he would just be sneaky and just take him without saying anything.]

Why are you saying sorry? As I said it's in the past, we've learned from it and moved past.