[ A few hours after the death, Hien can be seen lying down near the river flat on his back with his checkerboard patterned eyes wide open, looking up at the "sky".
He knows Mafuyu is there, but he doesn't react to her presence. He's fully aware of what he did, and thinking back to their first encounter of when he was a puppy in order to not scare her... it all seems funny now. He won't initiate things unless she does, so that she can be given control of a situation. ]
[ He is... somewhere. Actually, Edamura will find a very familiar small pomchi puppy in the corner of an empty room in Purrfect Penance, under the bed and all that. He was probably busted because of the cats helping Edamura look for him. ]
[NO. . . THAT'S SO CUTE. . . Lotte definitely helped. led the charge, even. Edamura follows the gaggle of cats into the empty room, watching as Lotte slips underneath the bed to fetch Hien, mrowing in that concerned way only cats can]
[Edamura takes a seat on the ground next to the bed, settling a bowl of warm katsudon onto his lap as he waits for the pomchi to emerge]
[ Hien is sitting at one of the tables and eating normally. If it weren't for his eyes, he'd look like a normal person eating at an IHOP. Though with Thorns's presence, Hien looks up from his food and nods to him after making eye contact. ]
"No. I didn't feel good about it either, because they're people I like."
[ ... ]
"I lashed out, because I thought I was nothing. All my memories and experiences... rendered to nothing. And being who I am, that part of me wouldn't stand for it."
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