[ Between everything he's feeling he can't even summon up the energy to even grumble at the pushback, and given how flustered he is he's willing to just let it pass in a rare moment of true concession. What Hikage says sometimes is a mystery to himself as well, more so when the truth is involved; on top of everything that's happened in the past day it really is one grand kaleidoscope of colors, thoughts, and emotions. It's too much, what he said just now was proof of it, and his thoughts had already begun to spiral when they're interrupted.
He removes himself from the menu and his mind when Subete starts speaking (instinct mostly, that part of him that can't seem to stop when it comes to them), but it takes him a second more to catch up. The sake has something to do with it, but what he's hearing—he laughs a little, lightly, softly and stares down at his hands. They tremble under the weight of everything he's done, in anticipation of everything he still wants to do. Stained dark enough, they've left a trail in their wake as he's flown farther and farther, as he's escaped net after net of security. If he stops he'll fall, if someone catches him they'll only become dirty too. So he needs to fly just like he has done so many times before, just like he had done several times today, but when he looks beyond his hands to see where he is... ]
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He removes himself from the menu and his mind when Subete starts speaking (instinct mostly, that part of him that can't seem to stop when it comes to them), but it takes him a second more to catch up. The sake has something to do with it, but what he's hearing—he laughs a little, lightly, softly and stares down at his hands. They tremble under the weight of everything he's done, in anticipation of everything he still wants to do. Stained dark enough, they've left a trail in their wake as he's flown farther and farther, as he's escaped net after net of security. If he stops he'll fall, if someone catches him they'll only become dirty too. So he needs to fly just like he has done so many times before, just like he had done several times today, but when he looks beyond his hands to see where he is... ]