[She fidgets with her tea cup a little more. It's so easy to talk to Shuichi, like they had before everything had happened. She could probably answer questions about the last couple months for him all day long; it lets her put off talking about that horrible game.
But she can't do that forever. If she doesn't ask him about it now, and instead waits until after he's settled in more, it'll be harder, she thinks. So, hesitantly, she asks:]
Umm... is it okay if we talk a little bit about... our time in that academy? Because... it hasn't been nine whole months for you since then, has it?
[Not from the way he's been talking. And that doesn't surprise her; she already knows that time passes differently for different people, as confusing as it can seem.]
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I guess Oma-kun is still Oma-kun, huh...?
[She fidgets with her tea cup a little more. It's so easy to talk to Shuichi, like they had before everything had happened. She could probably answer questions about the last couple months for him all day long; it lets her put off talking about that horrible game.
But she can't do that forever. If she doesn't ask him about it now, and instead waits until after he's settled in more, it'll be harder, she thinks. So, hesitantly, she asks:]
Umm... is it okay if we talk a little bit about... our time in that academy? Because... it hasn't been nine whole months for you since then, has it?
[Not from the way he's been talking. And that doesn't surprise her; she already knows that time passes differently for different people, as confusing as it can seem.]