[Lance jumps at the sound of a throat being cleared, before turning around to see Shiro.
He's...glad to see him, if he's being honest with himself. (Which he rarely is.) The man has always seemed so...dependable. Open. Friendly. All of those good things that make him comfortable to be around. And they've talked, a little, about people coming and going from this place, so he knows Shiro understands.
But a part of him also wishes it had been anyone else. Someone he could have just joked with, laughed about his poor turn of luck, who wouldn't think twice about a now-homeless shinki.
He holds the shogi board close to him, and looks at shiro with a crooked smile.]
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He's...glad to see him, if he's being honest with himself. (Which he rarely is.) The man has always seemed so...dependable. Open. Friendly. All of those good things that make him comfortable to be around. And they've talked, a little, about people coming and going from this place, so he knows Shiro understands.
But a part of him also wishes it had been anyone else. Someone he could have just joked with, laughed about his poor turn of luck, who wouldn't think twice about a now-homeless shinki.
He holds the shogi board close to him, and looks at shiro with a crooked smile.]
Hey, Shiro. What brings you around here?