foodbin | pc catchall for shirasu (wagashis)

Well, that's depressing.

Is it? It's simply how things were.

[He says it dismissively, but it's not entirely as casual as he'd probably like.]

You don't seem like the kind of person who's apathetic about stuff like that.

The rites are a thing of the past, now. I don't see the point in focusing too much on them.

[...but mostly he's ducking the topic again.]

But they haven't been gone long enough that you didn't have to go through them.

The only relevant thing is that I survived it. There's nothing else about it to discuss.

Right.

[She sounds like she's less than convinced, though.]

Is there anything else you're going to insist on knowing?

[He'd definitely like to move on.]

Stop trying to make it sound like I'm forcing you when you're talking about this willingly.

I believe I've run out of things I'm willing to share, then.

What, do you have an upper limit on the amount of honesty you can give out every day?

Perhaps I do.

[A sigh, before-]

I'd prefer to leave it at this.

That's good, because your preferences are really important to me,

You're the one who said you aren't forcing me to answer. Do you intend to change that?

How exactly do you imagine I'm going to force you? No.

One never knows what others have at their disposal, here-- though you're smarter than to waste anything on a subject like this, anyway.

Yeah, idle curiosity isn't going to get anything valuable involved.

Then it'll have to go unfulfilled.

Fine.

[...]

Anything else?

Not for now, no.

[If there's anything else she's curious about, it'll have to wait; he's pretty much done talking about himself for the day.]

Cool.

[And with that, she heads on out.]