idealism | Fuda # 15 | [House 49 - action/voice] Backdated to before Link and Sheik got drafted, I guess.

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Fuda # 15 | [House 49 - action/voice] Backdated to before Link and Sheik got drafted, I guess.

[Tsuzuki's talking to someone off camera, oblivious that he's transmitting their conversation to the whole town. He sounds upset.]

What do you mean 'Link's moving out'? Can't we at least talk about this?

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[There's an answering ping from Sheik's lyre on the other side of the door. Perfectly fine.]

[Okay, maybe not, but he's trying to be.]

[Sometimes communicating with Sheik can be difficult, since he's mute. Tsuzuki does't know what lyre-music means in this context. He leans against the door.]

Sheik? Can I come in, please?

[Sheik doesn't answer. He really doesn't feel like letting you in.]

[But the door's unlocked, so if Tsuzuki wants in, Sheik isn't stopping him.]

[Which is exactly what he does, since he's taking the silence as consent.]

I have to talk with you.

[Sheik's perched in the window, lyre in his arms.]

["What is there left to say?" he asks, even though he doesn't otherwise acknowledge Tsuzuki's there, continuing to stare out the window instead.]

I was hoping you'd give me more of a reason. Maybe I haven't paid enough attention, but I didn't see what Link did to make you hate him so much.

["It is not hate that clouds my vision". A single note from the instrument. "Confusion and sadness. Perhaps even fear. But never hate. I cannot hate the people chosen by my Goddesses".]

I'm glad to hear that, at least. I was worried he had secretly hurt you, or something like that.

["He has hurt me", whether intentionally or not. "Surely you would understand, if faced with my position".]

I understand. [He looks slightly guilty as he speaks and he doesn't try to look directly at Sheik. Tsuzuki has an unhealthy habit of letting people walk all over him, even if they hurt him. Suffice to say, in Sheik's position he wouldn't have done the same thing.]

What if he apologized for what he has done? Would that make a difference?

[Sheik's usually that way, until he interprets something as a threat. Link knowing as much as he does, is very threatening, in a way Sheik cannot easily explain.]

["Apologies cannot heal everything so easily". He knows. Sometimes, apologizing makes things harder to deal with.]

[Tsuzuki recognized some of the mannerisms because Hisoka showed a few similar ones. He also knows that he won't get any useful answer out of either of them if Sheik continues to feel this threatened.]

Is there any way I can help you, Sheik?

["Let it be". In other words, leave him alone and stop meddling. That's how you can help. "I simply need time".]

...How long do you think you need?

["I do not know". He lowers his lyre, then lets it drop the last couple of inches to the floor with a thump. Just one more dent in the worn gold won't make a difference to him.]

[Instinctively, Tsuzuki bends down to pick the lyre up. He brushes it off, touching the bumps one by one.] You should be careful with this. One day it might break.

["If it is broken, I will fix it again". If Tsuzuki were to peek under the bandages, he'd see exposed wood, rather than the gold of the rest of it.]

[It shows its age. That just makes it beautiful in Tsuzuki's eyes. He accidentally notices the wood peek at him from between the bandages.]

What if it gets so broken it can't be fixed?

[It really isn't that old of an instrument. Several years of fighting and carrying it around at the same time caused much of the damage. The strings he's had to replace on countless occasions.]

["That will not happen". Rather, he doesn't want that to happen. He doesn't know what he'd do without his beloved instrument.]

[That still means it would have lasted longer than any instrument of Tsuzuki's.] I hope not. It's better to treat these things gently rather than let them get broken. They're like friendships.

[Sheik cringes a little. Don't make that comparison. "My instrument would not turn its back on me if I unintentionally mistreated it".]

No, I suppose not. [He does take notice of Sheik's use of unintentional, though.] This must be difficult for you.

["No more difficult than any other time I have lost something important". He's lying, though. This hurts more than just losing someone he cared for...]

Sheik, it's always difficult to lose people you care about. Even if you can't remember Link, I don't think the loss of his friendship is possible to not feel.

[...Sheik sighs and finally turns to look at Tsuzuki. "Perhaps I am too consumed by the loss of my memories to care much for him at the moment."]

Fuda # 15 | [House 49 - action/voice] Backdated to before Link and Sheik got drafted, I guess.

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