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Asch is wandering around the village a bit, looking for a good spot to practice some artes without killing anyone, maybe get some thinking done somewhere other than at home. He's not in any particular mood, good or bad, so if you're lucky you'll catch his good side. His journal is open since he's checking a folded map he's got attached to it, so if you're lucky, you might hear him muttering a bit.]

...so the lake's... further west from here. Damned trees turned me around...

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[Asch is quiet for a bit, considering this, though he does sit up as Guy speaks. It's... such a relief, really, knowing that the world had changed so much in so little of a time. Two years was so brief, so short, yet the entire world had been changed, flipped upside down.

He wasn't certain of what he was feeling, overall, to hear that news, but... he did know that he was so proud of his country, in a way that he hadn't felt in years.

Even if they'd done it all without him.]

...You're right. It's just... stupid, pointless paranoia. I'm overthinking everything again.

[He hugs his knees to his chest, voice lowering to a mumble. He doesn't look depressed so much as resigned.]

It used to be my dream to change the world.

You did change it. [Guy reaches over to drag his fingers through Asch's hair, though they catch a bit and he has to gently untangle them and smooth out Asch's hair.] You and Luke.

Nothing ever happens the way you think it will. [The touch is soothing, and Asch relaxes, smiling a little.] I thought I'd be this great and wise fairytale king with his queen, loved by everyone because we made things better. But this is how I ended up...

Things don't happen the way people envision them, Asch. But I think in the end, that's for the best.

After all, if your future came to be the way you wanted it to, what's the difference between that and the Score?

[And that one shuts Asch right up. He probably hates the Score as much as Guy does.]

None of us thought we'd show up here, but here we are. And none of us thought we'd be what we are, but again, we are. No use lamenting what we could have done or could have been; just make the best of now, so that ten years later we can look back and be proud of what we were.

[You make it hard to feel down, Guy. Probably part of why he loves you so.]

...Thanks, Guy.

Don't mention it.

Don't you ever get tired of babysitting my moodswings?

Nah, it's fun. Like counseling.

I must be racking up quite the tab.

That's why you get to make dinner again tonight.

And here I thought you just liked my cooking.

It's all right.

I'm pretty sure you told me last night that it was amazing.

That was the afterglow talking.

[f-fffffff okay now he's laughing.]

Mind you, the afterglow was great. The cooking was pretty okay. The higher end of okay. Maybe you got your subjects confused.

Maybe you're getting my meal mixed up with the replica's. I knot it's hard to tell us apart sometimes.

Mmm, no. Not really, not anymore.

...I guess his hair makes it pretty obvious.

You're stupid.

Sh-shut up!

You- [And here Guy jabs a finger between Asch's brows] have a little dent here because you're always scowling. It'll be a wrinkle in five years, tops. You also have a diagonal scar across your stomach and two over your shoulder, plus the three from Eldrant. You don't open your eyes as wide as Luke does, and you don't fling yourself around on the bed when you sleep like he does.

Luke has a scar on his left elbow from where he tripped and skinned it, and two burn marks on the ball of his palm from when he touched the burner in the kitchen. His hair is lighter and a lot wilder than yours, and his writing is messier, though he can actually write quite well if he puts his mind to it. He isn't as particular about his appearance as you are, his balance isn't as good as yours, but he's faster than you.

...I can go on.

[And here's Asch... genuinely surprised (and secretly pleased, of course). A fair bit of that, even he himself wasn't aware of before.]

You... noticed all of that?