mineo.

[enfangs]

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[enfangs]

Has your list of people you trust expanded, then?

[sengokus]

[he looks thoughtful but will go back to making tea]

... depends on what I'm trusting them with.

But in some ways, yeah.

[enfangs]

[white just hums in response, since he's not sure if this is a subject he should press for details on.]

[sengokus]

[ . . . he just snorts quietly]

.... I can trust people with cases here, and on working together. That's expanded a bit.

I think trusting people with me and my well-being is still hard though. We're racing and competing, technically? I don't want to be blind to that.

[enfangs]

Well, I'm not judging you for that.

[white's hardly an advocate for believing in people.]

[sengokus]

[ . . . he nods.]

Yeah.

Most people wouldn't. It's just different for me, I guess. I used to just blindly believe in things and people...

[enfangs]

... We all have things we stop believing in, sooner or later.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . ]

But hopefully we can find new things to believe in too, right?

[enfangs]

[...]

I guess, yeah.

[sengokus]

[he just laughs a bit - and the tea is done brewing so he'll move to pour two cups, holding one out to white]

... then I guess that's what I'm banking on.

Finding new people and things to believe in.

[enfangs]

[he takes it, making a bit of a face because why... tea... but he takes a sip anyway.]

... You will, eventually. I can believe in that, at least.

[sengokus]

[ . . . . . . . ]

Do you not like tea? Dude. You watched me make a pot.

[enfangs]

I don't hate it.

[sengokus]

You just need something warm for your throat, even if the dream wasn't what you actually went through. What, you want hot cocoa or coffee instead? Just say so!

[enfangs]

[JUST TO PROVE A POINT HE IMMEDIATELY TAKES A GULP

and then looks like he regrets that decision a lot because hot but

he's doing his best]

[sengokus]

[ . . . . . . . he's just going to pat white's shoulders and then go to the vending machine to get him a bag of chips and a bottle of water

and hand both out to him]

You need ice for your mouth?

[enfangs]

[he swallows, but takes what mineo's offering.]

I-I'm fine!

[sengokus]

[he's just

going to get a cup with ice in it and then]

Open.

[so he can toss a cube of ice into white's mouth]

[enfangs]

[he just kind of obeys on instinct but ????]

[sengokus]

[tosses a cube of ice into white's mouth!]

There - to cool it down a little. Don't just gulp tea that's super hot!

[mineo says this but he literally only knows to get ice because he's done the same thing a thousand times]

[enfangs]

[mineo you loser

but with the ice in his mouth now—]

I—I said I was fine...

[sengokus]

Yeah...

I decided the nice thing would just to be try to help anyway. Sorry if I overstepped.

[he is apologizing only bc it's polite he is not sorry]

[enfangs]

[munches on the ice while looking mineo dead in the eye]

[sengokus]

Anyway, just say you don't like something next time. Is it the flavor...? Do you hate matcha too?

[he'll just ask as he takes a sip of his own tea]

[enfangs]

I just said I don't hate tea!