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Altair: Of course you wouldn’t. You’ve always been idealistic. Even when we were children. Everything has always had to be a certain way.

Ume: You say that as if it’s a bad thing.

Altair: I just… don’t see the world that way. At least not anymore. I like that I’ve changed. I don’t want to be the person I used to be before. She was… weak and selfish. I’d like to think that I’m a better person than that now.

Ume: I love the person you used to be.

Ume: Maybe in some small ways, but fundamentally as a person? I’d like to think that I’m still the same.

Altair: Hmm… yet you say that I’m the one with the depressing sentiment.

Ume: I fail to see how that’s depressing.

“Now I’m smiling from the stage while
You were clapping in the nosebleeds.”

Day 7: Punk Elf

Altair: Why would expect things to be the same?

Ume: Don’t you want it to be?

Altair: Hardly. I’m not the same person I was when we dated last time. Everything I want out of life is different. Sometimes I feel like that person I used to be is someone else entirely.

Ume: That’s a depressing sentiment.

Altair: Are you saying that after all this time you haven’t changed?

Altair: Are you feeling okay? You’re looking a little out of it.

Ume: I’m just worried.

Altair: About what?

Ume: Us.

Altair: Don’t go spilling all the details all at once.

Ume: It feels different this time.

[ocean sounds]

Altair: I get it. I have a reputation. You don’t have to keep going on like I’m an incompetent idiot.

Ume: I’m sorry. I was just… picking on you. Like… playful banter?

Altair: It didn’t feel very playful. You know. It never mattered how bad my cooking was, Sirius would always smile and eat it. Do you know why? Because partners support each other. Even on the little things.

Ume: Don’t do that.

Altair: Do what?

Ume: Compare us like that.

Altair: I was trying to make a–You know what? Forget it. Can we just go down to the docks? It’s always nice this time of day.