Mm. Alright.

[ agreed. but... in the coming days, for sure. now that she knows. if it's hard for him to bring up, she can take the lead. she can ask. ]

Wh - eh - I - I knooow! [ hiyori's sulking isn't real. not with her smile and the words coming out like she's trying not to laugh. color her surprised, though. he took the six donut thing to heart so much?? one of the first things she said to him. ]

Y, yeah. So well-rounded we'll become donuts ourselves, huh?

[ no, vash never struck her as the type to care if it was silly. always just the person who wanted to help others. big and small. ]

There's no shortage of those. [ crotchety patients. difficult ones. drug-chasing ones. sigh. ] Hmm. I'm going to complain about one thing. I need more pictures with you. Not just with the Christmas tree. With everyone, really, but especially people I'm friends with.

I want to add them to the journal I've been keeping.