[Finding someone else in the study isn't uncommon, though less common than it ought to be. Seeing Ishikirimaru there, Chuuya knocks on the doorway first as not to startle someone who might be feeling maybe a little more jumpy than usual after a murder trial.]
[Ishikirimaru glances up there, and on seeing Chuuya he offers him a nod and a slight smile.]
Ah, I'm just looking over a few things, actually.
[He isn't working on any of them at the moment (though he has a pencil still held in one hand) but it looks like there are a few small sketches on the page he briefly shows to Chuuya, little studies of others. Julius is one, Itachi another, along with others he's met-- Senri and Ray are also recognizable.]
...good. None of them should have to live with that, when this is over-- though neither should they have to know it even temporarily, nor should they have to fear it happening to them.
[Not just the younger ones, but anyone, though he especially hopes that they'll be left alone the next time someone chooses to act.]
I can only hope she will find peace at the end of this contest, along with anyone else who passes.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Week 1, Saturday, Post-Trial
What're you reading?
no subject
[Ishikirimaru glances up there, and on seeing Chuuya he offers him a nod and a slight smile.]
Ah, I'm just looking over a few things, actually.
[He isn't working on any of them at the moment (though he has a pencil still held in one hand) but it looks like there are a few small sketches on the page he briefly shows to Chuuya, little studies of others. Julius is one, Itachi another, along with others he's met-- Senri and Ray are also recognizable.]
no subject
[...except for Itachi but we'll ignore that one.]
no subject
Do you think so? I haven't had much practice, but... there are certainly enough people here to use for that.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
[Ishi takes the pencil back up, there, moving on to a new page, and takes a few moments to study Chuuya before he starts to draw.]
I see you still have the same outlook on humility.
no subject
I don't think all that much of my looks. But practice is good for anything.
no subject
[If Chuuya needs to adjust a little bit, he'll let him-- it's early enough, after all.
That's all he says for several moments, but without quite looking up from the page, he says-]
You seem calm enough, after everything.
no subject
[Chuuya pauses for a moment, thoughtful.]
Patience said, if Shiki wants to, she can forget what it felt like to die. That was the thing I was most worried about.
no subject
[Not just the younger ones, but anyone, though he especially hopes that they'll be left alone the next time someone chooses to act.]
I can only hope she will find peace at the end of this contest, along with anyone else who passes.
no subject
[Even if they remember a death that wasn't violent.]
That memory leaves marks even when you're brought back to life.
no subject
[The other swords are proof enough of that, sometimes, particularly the ones who carry memories of their masters' deaths.
He looks up properly there, though, expression more somber.]
I can also imagine that even if one doesn't remember it, the experience may leave other marks regardless.
no subject
[Though he'll offer no elaboration on that.]
But erasing those marks might be too much even for gods.
no subject
[Chuuya doesn't elaborate, and so he doesn't ask; talking about it is up to him, Ishi thinks.]
But even such unpleasant things can become more a part of us than we know, and forgetting may not always lead to being any happier.
no subject
[Worthwhile to take those marks and keep them with them for the rest of their lives.]
no subject
[A sigh, and-]
I understand the need for such a contest between them, but- I do not believe anything makes it right to take a life.
no subject
[but.]
no subject
[he shakes his head, there.]
We can only do what we're able. Perhaps there will still be some way to keep others from following suit.
no subject
[pretty much.]
no subject
[A sigh, and-]
Not that it will do much when we aren't conscious, but we can still try.
no subject