I'm still not sure how you learned to be so good at that so quickly. Were you practicing without me?
[Talking like this is... easier and harder than he remembers. It's odd. It's under an entirely different pretense, a perplexingly honestly friendly one, but he isn't struggling with that as much as he might be. Maybe it's the residual rattle of the multiple fits of earth-shattering anxiety he's fought his way through during the day, and that Akira has been nothing but supportive and present without being suffocating about it.]
[He hums, staying settled low enough in the water that his knees stick up.]
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[Talking like this is... easier and harder than he remembers. It's odd. It's under an entirely different pretense, a perplexingly honestly friendly one, but he isn't struggling with that as much as he might be. Maybe it's the residual rattle of the multiple fits of earth-shattering anxiety he's fought his way through during the day, and that Akira has been nothing but supportive and present without being suffocating about it.]
[He hums, staying settled low enough in the water that his knees stick up.]