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Who: Add & Jakob
Where: The Near Shore
When: June 17th
What: Prayer #18
Warnings: Feels.

Sora had at least convinced Add to try apologizing to Jakob over leaving him to another god, but the act of apologizing for a broken leg plus three weeks of cold silence would be... difficult. He's still not even sure where to start, what to say, what to bring... but as tempting as it is to keep putting it off, what ends up happening is the complete opposite. It's been quite some time since they've last received a prayer, after all.

The trip to the Near Shore is as awkward as he expects, though he at least spares Jakob enough words to tell him where they're going. And it'd be so, so easy to just tack on a by the way, I'm sorry for being such an ass, but that might come off as too apathetic, and the more he thinks about it the more nervous he gets, like what if Jakob is so upset he really doesn't accept Add's apology and he's only serving him now because he has to, or—

Ugh, he really needs to get this over with before it drives him crazy.

He fakes a cough, trying desperately to think of some way to break the ice. Just say something, damnit. Say anything.

"The... tea you left the other day was... nice." He didn't drink it. It's still sitting on his desk. Maybe Jakob didn't notice and this won't be the worst attempt at small talk ever.

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[gentilitea]

Jakob on the other hand has never expected an apology, too busy as he is brooding over recent events and his recently acquired memories, which make the context of their mission all the more poignant.

Moving on will never be easy, even for someone who has already died, it seems. And he is so lost in his own thoughts that he almost doesn’t register the small talk.

“What?” he starts, absently, not seeming to mind the suddenness of the conversation, at least until he follows it up: “Oh, truly? Then perhaps I should stop switching out your tea for sewage water.”