[ Naptime with puppy… Mizuki absolutely cuddles with Rusty when he's in the room, almost instinctively clinging to whatever is nearest to him. This isn't something unusual for Mizuki to do, as he just generally has a clingy nature to him, but it's less of his usual bullshit of "I need to feel connected to people and therefore need physical contact somehow" and more just… like how one might expect a kid to be. For the first time in a long time he dreams about his hometown. It's happy. It's sad. It's warm. It hurts.
He never really got the time to mourn any of it, has he? Whisked away by Cicero and saved by him to learn about the world, and told that bad things will happen to move life forward sometimes and allow for necessary change (he thought this way about the Profound Silence, too), but… it kind of sucks he never talked about it. It kind of sucks he never had that period of grieving. He wonders how he'd be different if he were given that chance? Would he be worse? Would he be less happy? Would he not try to smile for everyone to make sure they were happy, too? What would he be like, then?
…
When he wakes up, Rusty will get some very loving scritches to thank him for the company, and after he'll take the album and, without even looking inside, hold it close to his chest. If he's crying, that's between him and Rusty, and no one else has to know. ]
no subject
He never really got the time to mourn any of it, has he? Whisked away by Cicero and saved by him to learn about the world, and told that bad things will happen to move life forward sometimes and allow for necessary change (he thought this way about the Profound Silence, too), but… it kind of sucks he never talked about it. It kind of sucks he never had that period of grieving. He wonders how he'd be different if he were given that chance? Would he be worse? Would he be less happy? Would he not try to smile for everyone to make sure they were happy, too? What would he be like, then?
…
When he wakes up, Rusty will get some very loving scritches to thank him for the company, and after he'll take the album and, without even looking inside, hold it close to his chest. If he's crying, that's between him and Rusty, and no one else has to know. ]