Would he be all right anywhere, as long as Ryou was with him...?]
...no one in Ryslig can protect you completely. There's no one I can be with that would mean safety. Ryou can't keep me from harm any more than anyone else...
...but, he does feel like a vital part of "home." I can trust him. We look out for each other as much as this place allows us to.
[Ryou is a help. Ryou's saved him from worse fates before, when it was allowed by the rules of the game. It's only the times when no one could have saved him, that...]
I think a person, or people, can be your home...and then it can change, and not be the case anymore. Ryou feels like home, now...if I moved anywhere, I would want him to come with me.
[Yugi had been home for a long time. But when Yugi was here, it was different. The Atem Yugi knew had moved out, and Yugi had grown to fill the space left. Yugi isn't home anymore.]
My family traveled from city to city, depending on where we needed to be. No one palace was "home"...but my father was. And my mother, and Maia, and Siamun. Everyone who'd have rooms here...
[He tilts his head, indicating the space around him.]
...I haven't heard you mention your mother before.
[This is said with a little bit of uncurling, a little more openness. If Trish would like to talk...Atem would like to listen. He'd like to hear about the person who raised Trish to be who she is...she must have been something else.
And it's easier to think about than the endless dangers of Ryslig, and the futility of standing against them.]
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Would he be all right anywhere, as long as Ryou was with him...?]
...no one in Ryslig can protect you completely. There's no one I can be with that would mean safety. Ryou can't keep me from harm any more than anyone else...
...but, he does feel like a vital part of "home." I can trust him. We look out for each other as much as this place allows us to.
[Ryou is a help. Ryou's saved him from worse fates before, when it was allowed by the rules of the game. It's only the times when no one could have saved him, that...]
I think a person, or people, can be your home...and then it can change, and not be the case anymore. Ryou feels like home, now...if I moved anywhere, I would want him to come with me.
[Yugi had been home for a long time. But when Yugi was here, it was different. The Atem Yugi knew had moved out, and Yugi had grown to fill the space left. Yugi isn't home anymore.]
My family traveled from city to city, depending on where we needed to be. No one palace was "home"...but my father was. And my mother, and Maia, and Siamun. Everyone who'd have rooms here...
[He tilts his head, indicating the space around him.]
...I haven't heard you mention your mother before.
[This is said with a little bit of uncurling, a little more openness. If Trish would like to talk...Atem would like to listen. He'd like to hear about the person who raised Trish to be who she is...she must have been something else.
And it's easier to think about than the endless dangers of Ryslig, and the futility of standing against them.]