[ Dokja speaks but Eustace only partly listens, too busy trying to cross the line Dokja tries carefully to maintain. ]
Do you even need my help? Don't you have Han Sooyoung for that?
[ The namedrop is purposeful this time, his tone almost challenging.
Han Sooyoung and the clear concern he'd felt from her, even if she'd immediately tried to pack up and feign indifference. The fact that she'd felt the need to confide in him, a third party she barely even knew. He thinks too of the brief sputter in Dokja's good cheer when they'd mentioned her on the beach, a despondency that doesn't slot into any normal definition of friendship.
It'd never been his business to nose into, but now that he's found himself accidentally caught up in it he's not about to let go so easily. ]
Why do you keep pushing her away?
[ Because that's obviously what he's doing, isn't it? (Maybe not, but he sure isn't going to find out by sitting around and saying nothing.) ]
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Do you even need my help? Don't you have Han Sooyoung for that?
[ The namedrop is purposeful this time, his tone almost challenging.
Han Sooyoung and the clear concern he'd felt from her, even if she'd immediately tried to pack up and feign indifference. The fact that she'd felt the need to confide in him, a third party she barely even knew. He thinks too of the brief sputter in Dokja's good cheer when they'd mentioned her on the beach, a despondency that doesn't slot into any normal definition of friendship.
It'd never been his business to nose into, but now that he's found himself accidentally caught up in it he's not about to let go so easily. ]
Why do you keep pushing her away?
[ Because that's obviously what he's doing, isn't it? (Maybe not, but he sure isn't going to find out by sitting around and saying nothing.) ]