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[personal profile] gambolshroud 2019-05-14 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
You're an optimist.

[An observation, rather than a question, and she gives another faint smile as she finally starts to dig into some of the food he'd offered her. His is a cautious optimism, she notes, different from her team leader's in that sense, but she knows that's what Ruby's mind would have gone to, as well. She would want to believe that they were here to help.

Maybe, in her absence, that's the assumption Blake should make, as well, until they know something more.]


That's an underrated quality, I've found. The world tends to make it hard to be one.
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[personal profile] socials 2019-05-25 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't used to be. [ He's honest, immediately, especially about this topic. ] But I learned how to hope for the best.

[ Because he had to. Because it meant that people would be able to do the same, to look on the bright side, even if it seemed like there wasn't one. So he'll look at this situation with the same kind of hope, even if it's careful.

At least it looks like she's started to eat, too. Souji'll take that small victory along with the smiles.
]

It does. And it can be hard to stick with it, sometimes, but once you learn... I don't know, I don't think I'll ever look back from it.