[PCs] team trust no bitch aka team hat aka chuuya & caren

[doublesmall]

[but is it really team hat if only caren has one, though? that's the real question here.

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(there is age difference ship content here but nothing nsfw)]

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[doublesmall]

Me, reading into things? Nah. I know better.

[that slight smile gets one in response, though, and there's barely disguised amusement in his tone-- chuuya shifts to let his head rest on her shoulder, apparently content not to say anything else. that got pretty dangerously close to feelings, after all.]

[sexorcism]

[She's fine with silence; if anything, she's gotten used to them being like this; the times it doesn't feel like idling away limited hours are truly memorable ones. When it's just a state of being, it's fine.

He's loud normally, but that's fine, too.

Caren ties off the braid with some more leather from the bracelet, then stretches out a piece of lace to wrap around it. As she does it, she explains what she's doing.]

This should keep it from fraying so much. You never know who's going to want to harm it, after all.

[doublesmall]

I'll protect it better, this time.

[not that there's anything he could have done about it being taken from his body, but-- well, he could have protected himself better too, couldn't he?]

...but a little extra protection never hurts.

[sexorcism]

I'd be disappointed if you didn't.

[Caren seals the rest of the braid with the various pieces from the deconstructed bracelet, then holds it up in the light from one of the garish love hotel lamps.]

If you tire of carrying it, you are obligated to return it.