... but I guess I could stand to eat a little better.
[Duo, meanwhile, was realizing just how much he had missed having any sense of normalcy in his life. With Hilde it had been a constant struggle between the need for release with some one he could trust and the arguments over petty things. Not that it was entirely Hilde's fault; the majority of the problem rested on him and him alone, and his inability to see beyond their shared past.
A problem that he had with a lot of the people in his life, in fact. They were soldiers that had survived by the Devil's luck and a miracle, and for the past two years they were really the only "family" each other had.
However fucked up a family that might have been.
And it was like they could never fully get away from it, either. There was the mess with Marimeia just a year following their victory over the falling battle ship, and even before and then after stopping her army most of them were doing some level or another of work with the Preventers.
He loved his friends, but he would be lying if he didn't feel like this - all of this, Dirk included - was a welcome and needed vacation.
It seemed like both of their thoughts were somewhat elsewhere during dinner, though that didn't stop them from having a decent conversation. It was only after the fact that Duo began to feel heavy, achy and groggy again. He tried to ignore it, attempting to help with the dishes since Dirk had gone to so much trouble with dinner.]
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... but I guess I could stand to eat a little better.
[Duo, meanwhile, was realizing just how much he had missed having any sense of normalcy in his life. With Hilde it had been a constant struggle between the need for release with some one he could trust and the arguments over petty things. Not that it was entirely Hilde's fault; the majority of the problem rested on him and him alone, and his inability to see beyond their shared past.
A problem that he had with a lot of the people in his life, in fact. They were soldiers that had survived by the Devil's luck and a miracle, and for the past two years they were really the only "family" each other had.
However fucked up a family that might have been.
And it was like they could never fully get away from it, either. There was the mess with Marimeia just a year following their victory over the falling battle ship, and even before and then after stopping her army most of them were doing some level or another of work with the Preventers.
He loved his friends, but he would be lying if he didn't feel like this - all of this, Dirk included - was a welcome and needed vacation.
It seemed like both of their thoughts were somewhat elsewhere during dinner, though that didn't stop them from having a decent conversation. It was only after the fact that Duo began to feel heavy, achy and groggy again. He tried to ignore it, attempting to help with the dishes since Dirk had gone to so much trouble with dinner.]