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[beaumains]

[ Outside the cottage that Gareth shares with Kadoc, the young knight is working up a sweat, dressed down to a tank top with a towel draped over her shoulders. It's hard to ignore just how much lean muscle the seemingly petite woman has in a situation like this.

She pulls a swig from her water bottle, sighing. ]

It's hard to believe I'm spending another summer in this Avalon. It really leads one to think, you know?

About time... about what it even means in a place like this. About what's going to become of all of us when this is over...

It sort of makes one think they should use their time here more urgently, right?

[ One big swig. A long pause, and... ]


... I really need to get out more.

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[impostorsyndrome]

[Kadoc reclines next to her, not sprawling out fully on his back, but leaning far back on his hands, digging his fingers into the grass.]

. . . Yeah. I get it. I'd say therapy or something, but I don't even know if they do that here. Big shock that I never looked into it, I know. I can't even make some shitty joke about "you'd know the world was ending," 'cuz obviously not even that happening got me to call anyone.

[More than once, even!]

I think working all this out would be worth it, but me thinking that doesn't magically make it easy on you. . . . I'd do anything I could to help you out.

[beaumains]

You help out enough as it is... [ Gareth murmured, reaching to rub at his arm, as if she was the one reassuring him, in all of this. ]

Don't feel like you have to do more.

[impostorsyndrome]

[He lifts his head and tips it in the grass just enough to offer her a tired smile. Which is stupid, he thinks. He's not the one working out or the one going through this; what does he have to be tired about? But it's heavy, and it's not like he can't relate.]

I'm not offering 'cuz I feel obligated. I offered 'cuz I'd want to do it. It's completely different.

[beaumains]

Well, that and... I'm not even sure what help I need.

[ She let out a small sigh, chuckling just slightly. ]

Certainly are no lack of would-be matchmakers in town...

[impostorsyndrome]

No kidding. I think people just get bored . . . I dunno why anything surprises me anymore when people will post on the network just straight up asking for gossip. But that's not that different from any modern social media anyway.

[He still has a moment every time someone is so blatant about it! But better that than trolling, probably.]

You ever talked to them about it?

[beaumains]

Alas, I'm not that sort of brave.

[ She could only laugh, knowing the irony behind those words. ]