#KAVEH&REN THREAD 001.

[astrummorte-m]

@erabundus. continued from here. kaveh & ren.

"Do you know what one of my driving passions is?" he asks as the wandering soul struggles to find the words necessary, or desired, to reply with something that shows how grateful he is for the gifts. it was a simple question, and yet it held an answer only kaveh could truly give. it was a question that only the person asking it could know. some would call that rhetorical.

he walks over to the desk again and rifles around in one of the drawers as he continues talking. "I like making people happy, Ren. Seeing them smile, seeing their eyes soften when they see something they like, hearing them laugh or sigh as they hide amusement at something funny or adorable. I like making people happy. And, Ren? He makes you happy, doesn't he?"

kaveh takes out a triplet of items dangling from strings: a solar eclipse, a lunar eclipse, and a series of stars in an unknown constellation. "I don't know if you've noticed, but I don't have very many friends. People don't really ... like me. Not the real me, not the me that I show so few, because so few in turn actually want to know me." he walks back over and smiles, tilting his head as he looks down at the trinkets he now holds.

"I have these two friends. One of them, you probably know. Alhaitham. He's one of the people who always believed in me, even when I had some truly terrible days. He's one of the people who saw me and said, there's something in you that even you don't see, not yet, and I'll be here even if you never do. And then there's someone else, a person who befriended me because I was a little strange, and they saw something that no one else did. They saw hope, in me. Their name is Decima. They've been there when I thought not even Alhaitham would be - and both of them turned up."

he chuckles warmly. "But they're happy together. And I'm happy for them, because they're happy together. I can't imagine a day that goes by where they're not happy and in love, and sure, maybe I have my own feelings for both of them, but I cherish our friendship more than some puppy love, and that's what makes me happy."

he looks at ren again, the corners of his eyes crinkling lightly. "And, Kaedehara-san? He makes you happy, doesn't he?"