is that it? maybe. he's not yet good at parsing the emotional resonances in text communications, even with the extra telepathic touch the jewelry has.
sai hesitates, then:]
is that what you meant, then? by ... worrying, sometimes for no reason? even though you escaped safely ....
[...]
[It might be obvious, by now, that there's more to this than an unresolved curiosity from their conversation that was interrupted by Zombie Time. A few more beats pass, and then he adds:]
naruto and i returned to our respective apartments individually after our escape
then later, i decided to find him
and then i remained there, while he slept
[The messages each come with delays, as if he's struggling to arrange his thoughts in a meaningful way. His communications are usually so precise, efficient, to the point, but these seem -- fragmented. scattered. whispers of thought on the wind, thrown this way and that by forces out of his control.]
he was ... confused by my presence, when he woke
[and so, that touch of psychic imprint with the text connotes, was he, when called on it]
no subject
is that it? maybe. he's not yet good at parsing the emotional resonances in text communications, even with the extra telepathic touch the jewelry has.
sai hesitates, then:]
is that what you meant, then? by ... worrying, sometimes for no reason? even though you escaped safely ....
[...]
[It might be obvious, by now, that there's more to this than an unresolved curiosity from their conversation that was interrupted by Zombie Time. A few more beats pass, and then he adds:]
naruto and i returned to our respective apartments individually after our escape
then later, i decided to find him
and then i remained there, while he slept
[The messages each come with delays, as if he's struggling to arrange his thoughts in a meaningful way. His communications are usually so precise, efficient, to the point, but these seem -- fragmented. scattered. whispers of thought on the wind, thrown this way and that by forces out of his control.]
he was ... confused by my presence, when he woke
[and so, that touch of psychic imprint with the text connotes, was he, when called on it]