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Take the time that you need. I do not wish to rush you.

[He still holds on to his hand perhaps a little too tightly as he begins escorting him around the city.]

I'd ask how you were but if you had a run in with Lahabrea, I imagine you tire of the question.

You are correct. He was very insistent on hearing all about my feelings and giving me support.

He worries for you as you worry for him.

But since is not here, we can gossip about him. How do you think he is faring?

Far better than he was before dying, of course. That barely even needs to be said.

I do think his concern for us and his other loved ones is a significant source of stress, though. He has become far more of a worrier than I remember him being, but I suppose he never does anything in half measures.

You are aware of his corruption, correct?

...Do you mean the one on his chest?

No. The one that makes him twitch if you put a row of pencils out of place.

He has not seen fit to inform me of that, no.

I imagine he simply has adjusted to it. He does get anxious, overly so, if he doesn't know where all of BARiTONES is. It also irritates him to objects out of place. I imagine such tendencies carries over to those that he cares about which why he might seem a bit more overbearing than normal.

That does explain quite a few things. His eagerness to put trackers in us being one.

Precisely. So if he does seem overbearing not all is his own making.

But do give him a hard time of it regardless.

Oh, I fully intend to. It is not as though he is going easy on me either.

As nosy as he is, better this than what he was before.

Indeed, all complaints aside this is still preferable.

[If he's wearing his mask, Emet will reach up to touch the edges of it asking for permission.]

[nods, permission granted]

[He slips it off holding it carefully in his hands. For a moment it seems he's going to ask a personal question, but he doesn't.]

Any flaws in our path forward, o' Emissary?

No glaring ones, at the very least. We have less control over events than I would like, but it could be far worse.

At least we could impress you that much.

Were you worried I would be disappointed?

If I had nothing to show by the time both of you arrived, I would have been disappointed in myself.

[pauses for a moment, considers being an asshole but elects not to]

You managed to find not only a new way to save our world, but love and happiness as well. I would say you have far exceeded any expectations we might have had.

I would have taken the first, but I wonder about the second. You seem to be overly kind.

You doubt my sincerity?

I believe you to dance around the subject much like Lahabrea to spare my feelings.

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