[He doesn't really know how to explain that he tends to live in his own head anyway. For all that some of these memories might be painful, he revisits them so often on his own that none of them are terribly startling.
Instead--]
But most of them happened years ago, now. Some of them hundreds of years ago. [So they're old aches, rather than tender new ones. He smiles a little, though, and nods.]
Mm. Some of the other swords... they're really easy to talk to. And the other Shinsengumi swords are always there, of course.
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[He doesn't really know how to explain that he tends to live in his own head anyway. For all that some of these memories might be painful, he revisits them so often on his own that none of them are terribly startling.
Instead--]
But most of them happened years ago, now. Some of them hundreds of years ago. [So they're old aches, rather than tender new ones. He smiles a little, though, and nods.]
Mm. Some of the other swords... they're really easy to talk to. And the other Shinsengumi swords are always there, of course.