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"Do you want some tea? Would that help?" (Nagasone to his dear aruji 🥺) @zantedeschia-praesul

[ Comforting Edition {Sentence Starters} ]

"Um..." Does he want tea? Would it help? He's not sure. "It can't hurt..."

His reply is a bit absent though, as he tries to keep his mind from the missive he'd received earlier, though it still sits on his desk and has had a firm grip on his attention since he'd first read it.

Nagasone had come in to check on him, and had noticed something was troubling him. But... the subject matter of the letter was something he has trouble speaking about with his men-- even Nagasone-- even though it's not the first of its kind he'd gotten.

It's been a year since his six-month evaluation from the government, and so he's due for another one.

An evaluation that's less about the honmaru and more about Yuichi himself.

And for some reason, even with all his doubts about himself as a saniwa, this personal kind of evaluation is... worse.

It went fine six months ago, and he's sure he's doing even better now, but still... He's never been good at speaking so candidly about his mental state to any actual person-- his diary gets the brunt of that-- and he tries not to talk about certain things, or his past issues-- with his touken danshi either.

So... when even his beloved had come to his side, he simply replied with a complaint of an upset stomach. It wasn't a lie, though, at least by anything other than omission-- he felt sick.