You do not actively go to Benny's. You end up at Benny's.

[paishodown]

Who: Asami and Envy
Where: Ambiguously named restaurant that serves mediocre pancakes at bargain prices and ungodly hours.
When: Late, June 12
Summary: Sad pancakes and bonding over loss???
Rating: PG
Log:


Asami pokes at her food dejectedly. She's been sitting in this dismal restaurant for longer than she would like to admit. It's just past 10, a ridiculous time to be at a restaurant, but this is the only place open right now.

She can't sleep, she's hungry, and and she isn't up to cooking anything right now. She still isn't very good at it.

Korra always did most of the cooking.

And this place really is... sad. The harsh florescent lighting does neither its faded interior nor its guests any favors. There's a mysterious substance on the booth seat across from her. The window next to her is dusty and its edges are crusted. Asami sighs and puts down her fork, her appetite suddenly gone. Nothing feels right, right now.

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[paishodown]

It's a simple question, but the implications behind it are something Asami's been pondering over. She shouldn't be worried. It had been Korra's idea to go away, surely the whole point of that was for... well... them.

But nothing really happened happened until they were already here. There's a bit of wistfulness in how she stares at her soggy dinner.

"Closer than anyone. At least for me." Korra has more people in her life than Asami does, and she's thankful for that. "I know that she'll be okay. It's just the forgetting part."

[exeggutorhead]

Envy's jaw clenches noticeably when she mentions forgetting, and he looks down to hide his expression.

No, he's still not all right, and words just sort of start tumbling out of his mouth before he can hold them back. Maybe it's because Asami's dealing with the same problem.

"Yeah, that part, it's--I lost someone, about a month ago. Someone told me that even if he forgot, that we'd gotten...close for a reason and there wasn't any reason it couldn't happen again. But that doesn't make it better."

He stops talking abruptly. And now he's really not looking at her, an embarrassed frown set on his face.

[paishodown]

Asami's face sinks into an empathetic frown, and she watches him in spite of his having looked away. Envy hadn't really seemed like the type to be so close to someone until now, though she supposes she shouldn't assume.

She isn't about to tell him that she has the comforting thought of what's waiting for her when she does return and forget.

"Someone from home?"

[exeggutorhead]

To his credit, Envy manages not to flinch at the question. A month ago, he would have. He supposes that must mean he's getting a little better.

He just shakes his head and says simply, "No, he's from somewhere else."

Only one of the many, many issues that make it impossible for he and France to be together anywhere but here, but he doesn't want to dump all of THAT on her.

He scratches at a piece of the table that's cracked and flaking up, trying to figure out what to say. Heather's good at this kind of thing, what would she say?

"I've been here a long time, a really long time. I've had a lot of people come and go, and they come back sometimes. But...there's nothing to do besides keep going and try to remember them however you can."

[paishodown]

Oh. That puts a different sort of weight on Asami's chest. She watches him pick at the table rather than looking at his face.

"I've lost a lot of people."

This isn't something she really talks about, but Asami feels sort of... raw, right now.

"Come close to losing more. But I don't think that's quite the same as someone disappearing, from here. There's always that sliver of hope that they'll come back, memories intact."