>>52796690>>52799296Imagine - Akari offers but Ingo refuses to go with her at first. He feels a pull to go with her but he has made Hisui his home. This is all he has known for a long time, known in his conscious. He cannot leave, not anymore. Perhaps if he had more time, if he was younger.
But then Akari gets upset and argues and reasons and tries. But Ingo is an unmoving force. That is, until she tells him that she cannot go alone though this stream of space and time, adventuring into the unknown. Because she is terrified to be all alone again.
And in the end as much as he enjoys the handmade mochi, the crisp air of the glaciers and perhaps even watching Melli making an ass out of himself in front of both clans he cannot let a lone child, a lost traveler, be in their own without a conducter showing them the way to their destination.
