["I can try." After a moment, he reaches for another plate, soaps it, and rinses, silent as he thinks. It doesn't feel like enough of a promise. It feels like a stopgap, something that even if it soothes Chikusa's anger today will make him angrier again, later, when something inevitably happens or Hakkai's pushed too far to be able to reach out.
He knows himself well enough to know that's bound to happen again.]
Then let's talk each day -- about what we might need to tell each other, that day, and not just about dinner.
[If they can feel as though there is honesty between them, then, maybe, it will be easier to bear when something goes wrong.]
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["I can try." After a moment, he reaches for another plate, soaps it, and rinses, silent as he thinks. It doesn't feel like enough of a promise. It feels like a stopgap, something that even if it soothes Chikusa's anger today will make him angrier again, later, when something inevitably happens or Hakkai's pushed too far to be able to reach out.
He knows himself well enough to know that's bound to happen again.]
Then let's talk each day -- about what we might need to tell each other, that day, and not just about dinner.
[If they can feel as though there is honesty between them, then, maybe, it will be easier to bear when something goes wrong.]