[ awww! it's sweet that iwatooshi is sticking to the pickles rule. caelus tried, but losing yet another barn member made the act impossible to keep up. something about the spirit being willing but the body so done with saying 'the puppy' before every sentence. iwatooshi's diligence is admirable.

his memory, less so, but it wasn't caelus' to see in the first place. it begins right away at a private painpoint, a moment that caelus has heard about but couldn't grasp the scope of through words alone.

watching a man beat his respected master turns caelus' stomach, the lesson to be gained so unsavory if poignant for iwatooshi's predicament.

it continues: iwatooshi admits his kindness 'may have been selfish.' caelus knows what that's like. and they're both spat out from the memory in the same place they began.

less happy, less cute than before.

iwatooshi knows he needs to tell his partner the truth. so why is the memshare pushing the issue?? huh??? ]

Your 'kindness'... is kinda old-fashioned. You have to update it, that's all. But you can learn how to be kind differently. Learning to be kind when you aren't is a much greater hurdle.

[ thinking of some other people in the village but even smalltext not naming names. ]