[rei avoids eye contact yet again. rei? a blossom of color in olivine's life? that can't be right. olivine must just be saying that to be kind. rei is more like a black hole, after all, if he knew what that was. sucking everything of its color and dragging everything down to the reality he sees: a world that's not been kind, and will never be kind. the blossoms of color are people like olivine. people like garu.
people like eiden.
people who are pure, kind, and do their best to uplift others, no matter what the world throws at them. those people are the strongest, in rei's opinion. they make the world worth living in.
that is not rei.
but he takes the compliment without argument, knowing it's futile. he takes his bowl of soup and starts slurping up a noodle instead. a distraction.]
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people like eiden.
people who are pure, kind, and do their best to uplift others, no matter what the world throws at them. those people are the strongest, in rei's opinion. they make the world worth living in.
that is not rei.
but he takes the compliment without argument, knowing it's futile. he takes his bowl of soup and starts slurping up a noodle instead. a distraction.]
Was he your first? The Grand Sorcerer.