@Sparrow | Video

[arcadedragon]

[The video feed opens on part of the kitchen where there's a big stockpot sitting on the counter on a towel, and a few small bowls filled with soup are standing ready nearby. If anyone has known Genji for more than five minutes it's a shock that the rest of the kitchen isn't stacked to the ceiling with dirty dishes and there isn't food literally everywhere.

He cleans up nice sometimes.

While he's not visible at any point in the video, his slightly mechanical voice is pretty recognizable, so he doesn't think to introduce himself.]

Many of us have been sick, and the weather has become increasingly colder. I made butajiru, except without miso and without dashi because we do not have such things. So I suppose it is simply pork broth and vegetables.

In any case I made a lot, please help yourself, it is in the kitchen.

[Genji is capable of making exactly four items of food: porridge, tamagoyaki, waffles, and this. It's actually good too! Spoiled rich boy has learned himself some new skills.]

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[arcadedragon]

[He doesn't pull away, but it's clear from his body language that no one ever touches him and he's not sure how to react. But what Ben is saying makes sense, he's just thinking about it all wrong. He's spent a decade consumed by the past, letting bitterness overcome him and it's only recently that he's broken that pattern, and he somehow expected it would be a complete one-eighty where he didn't have moments of self-doubt and backsliding.

And that was ridiculous. He was still human, as much as he didn't feel like it sometimes. He wasn't robotic enough to just flip a switch and change how he thought - he's not sure he'd want that either. Eventually he smiles. Ben somehow knowing exactly what to say.]

You are right. Wise beyond your years.

[He finishes his tea, rolling the cup between his hands before standing up to go put it in the sink. ]

Thank you. For talking with me, for all you've done for me. Next time we meet perhaps I will have a new skill to show off.