[not again] catchall for ookurikara

[fishingforcompliments]

Comments

[fishingforcompliments]

Not for entertainment, no, but... people need hope, to get them through hard times.

Knowing that a bond as strong as the one the two of you share can be forged from situations like this can give others the strength to keep going and find our way home.

[unfriendliest]

But why it would be that important to anyone else? Our courtship isn't anyone else's business. They should have their own reasons for wanting to get home.

[fishingforcompliments]

Well... sometimes it is easier to believe that something can happen for you if you see it happen to someone else, first.

Otherwise, it can seem completely unattainable.

[unfriendliest]

[ . . . ]

I don't see why it makes that much of a difference. Courtship is far from the only thing that matters.

[fishingforcompliments]

It is not so much the courtship itself so much as it is knowing that something, anything, wonderful can come from a situation where there is so much pain.

...the courtship is simply the most noticeable aspect, I think.

Besides... you have people who care about you, who want to see the two of you happy. I think that may play a part in it as well.

[unfriendliest]

[ he shakes his head. ]

They care about Lili, not me, and that's fine. And as long as we win this game, that should be all we need as far as something good coming out of the situation goes.

[fishingforcompliments]

...

[uh, kara.]

I think that they care about you, too, though... you are not nearly as frightening as you seemed to be at first. And you are kinder than you like to act. Those are qualities that will draw people to you.

[unfriendliest]

[ wh ]

...I don't want people to be drawn to me.

[fishingforcompliments]

No? But that is the surest way to lead them to victory.

[unfriendliest]

I'm not the one leading the people here.

[fishingforcompliments]

You are helping to.

[unfriendliest]

That's different from being the leader. I'm just a tool, not the one making the calls.

[fishingforcompliments]

[wow, this tag makes what lili said to him at the trial even worse.]

Ookurikara... do you think anyone here thinks of you as "just a tool"?

[unfriendliest]

I don't know, but it doesn't really matter. I know who and what I am.

[fishingforcompliments]

[swords.

she wants to say something, here - but she doesn't know what. she and ookurikara really aren't close enough for anything she could say to have much meaning, she thinks.]

[unfriendliest]

[ well, if flayn has nothing more to say, then neither does kara. assuming she doesn't stop him, he'll turn for the door. ]

[fishingforcompliments]

[goodbye kara, until they meet again]