[ For someone as prickly as Chougi, how could this be anything but a surprise? It's not like he hates any of the swords around him, but even the ones he likes he stubbornly refuses to admit it to their faces. And something like "love" shouldn't even be possible for him, should it?
And yet, there's the evidence one morning, in handfuls of scattered hydrangea blossoms, each one small enough that he can cough them up complete.
What's worse? The realization that maybe there is someone here important enough to call it "love" or the realization that he's been enough of a shit it'll never be returned? At this early stage it's easy enough to hide but...if it gets worse, he'll go to Yagen. That's the best plan, right?
For now, though, he chooses different hiding places for the flowers that spill out of his mouth. He wraps them up in an old handkerchief and shoves them into the fireplace in the kitchen in a spare moment where (he hopes) nobody's looking. Or slides beneath the citadel itself and shoves handfuls of petals into shallow graves (and tells anyone who asks why he's filthy that he was out in the fields). It's easier once spring comes and the actual hydrangeas are in bloom. He can just chuck them outside with nobody the wiser.
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And yet, there's the evidence one morning, in handfuls of scattered hydrangea blossoms, each one small enough that he can cough them up complete.
What's worse? The realization that maybe there is someone here important enough to call it "love" or the realization that he's been enough of a shit it'll never be returned? At this early stage it's easy enough to hide but...if it gets worse, he'll go to Yagen. That's the best plan, right?
For now, though, he chooses different hiding places for the flowers that spill out of his mouth. He wraps them up in an old handkerchief and shoves them into the fireplace in the kitchen in a spare moment where (he hopes) nobody's looking. Or slides beneath the citadel itself and shoves handfuls of petals into shallow graves (and tells anyone who asks why he's filthy that he was out in the fields). It's easier once spring comes and the actual hydrangeas are in bloom. He can just chuck them outside with nobody the wiser.
Yeah. Hiding it is best. ]