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[The video turns on to bright, light grey, clouds; the only barrier between the sun and the beach. Raindrops fall onto the camera, but they're wiped off by the owner of the SFC, one vampire who's currently standing dressed only in an open button-down and loose, low-hanging jeans that are rolled up to above his knees, calf-deep in the ocean as the rain falls steadily from the sky.

Apparently, he likes to live on the edge with those clouds.]

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.

Back home, I've heard it said that God is in the rain just as He is in the sun's rays...

[So, then, why is it only the sun that burns?]

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life...and yet, people hide away from the rain and seek shelter inside and curse nature for ruining their bright and sunny day. Why?

[Finally he turns a small, vaguely sad, smirk to the camera.]

What about all of you? What are your qualms with the rain? Does it have any sort of significance for you personally or back home? Or is it just the thing that hides the sun from your face~?

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If I weren't fine I would just...try to avoid the question. Most people don't ask because they want you to lie. At least not here.

And I want you to be happy. And I'd imagine so does everyone else. Don't think me so self-centered that what you're going through doesn't matter to me.

It's...not that I think you're self-centred....I just don't want to bother you with it~

Mmm....it is nice to hear that you care about my happiness, though~ You know, that's what friends do~~

I'm telling you right now that I'd prefer you to bother me with it than to keep it all to yourself. Or would you disregard my desires with regards to this?

[Ky has enough of an understanding of friendship to have no problem calling himself someone's friend, but he doesn't necessarily understand or accept all the feelings that that might entail.]

Then let me be your friend.

I've always considered you my friend...

I....I'll try to keep that in mind. I'm just not used to...[Talking to people or sharing feelings when he doesn't want to...even having someone who actually cares about him was new.]

I'll try.

[Ky really doesn't know about always, but they'll figure it out, won't they?]

I'm not giving up on you, so you don't really have anything to do but try.

[Ky can be plenty stubborn when he wants, even if the other aspects of social interaction are still things he's working out.]

[He ran a hand through his hair, mind torn between complacency and argument. No. This wasn't the way things were supposed to go....at least it didn't make sense.]

...I don't understand, Ky. I don't understand why you or anyone else would try to change me. Seven hundred years and no one has....I just don't get it.

I wish I did.

Trust me, it's far more confusing to me why over that seven hundred years no one tried to help. You're a good person, inside, that much is glaringly obvious.

That's the only reason I need.

[He's silent for a while, the alcohol already pretty much gone from his system. Then he sighs and offers a small smile to Ky.]

Thanks. I hope I can live up to this perception you and everyone else has.

[Ky takes the smile as an excuse to reciprocate it.]

I have confidence that you can.

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