[It's but the work of a minute for Mami to cut a neat turn and skate up to Utena, to come to a slow and graceful halt in front of her. Near enough to touch, easily, a thing she does after a heavy moment of hesitation - one hand on Utena's shoulder.]
...I understand.
[Simple words stated in a quiet voice. Yet another truth, for Mami knows that feeling. It's more comfortable to stay the same, isn't it? To have the ease and familiarity of routine, to know what you have to do and how to do it and have it repeat over and over. Change is scary. Change is difficult. Change is not something most people gladly and readily accept. She doesn't know if she should be proud of Utena for this admittance, for this moment of insight and thinking outside of her bubble.....or disappointed that it's such a slow and small step considering the long and hard road it's but a piece of. So she settles for neither. Mami just smiles in a comforting way, removes her hand, and allows that thread of conversation to lay abandoned.]
Ah, yes....it'll be nice when it's sunny and warm here again. I'm looking forward to it.
no!
...I understand.
[Simple words stated in a quiet voice. Yet another truth, for Mami knows that feeling. It's more comfortable to stay the same, isn't it? To have the ease and familiarity of routine, to know what you have to do and how to do it and have it repeat over and over. Change is scary. Change is difficult. Change is not something most people gladly and readily accept. She doesn't know if she should be proud of Utena for this admittance, for this moment of insight and thinking outside of her bubble.....or disappointed that it's such a slow and small step considering the long and hard road it's but a piece of. So she settles for neither. Mami just smiles in a comforting way, removes her hand, and allows that thread of conversation to lay abandoned.]
Ah, yes....it'll be nice when it's sunny and warm here again. I'm looking forward to it.