[ he makes the turn, using it as a buffer before he speaks again.
because... it wasn't just time, was it? eventually, yes-- because time eventually had gotten ahold of them, and made them slower, and more fragile, until the point where tsurumaru had to come visit because he wasn't entirely sure if he'd be able to make another trip in the future.
but there was something else blocking them before any of that was ever factor. and it's something they carefully ignored, for decades, as if never speaking of it would set it neatly out of view. ]
Maybe we got old sooner than we thought.
[ maybe things would have been easier if they weren't forced to be adults by those around them. ]
no
because... it wasn't just time, was it? eventually, yes-- because time eventually had gotten ahold of them, and made them slower, and more fragile, until the point where tsurumaru had to come visit because he wasn't entirely sure if he'd be able to make another trip in the future.
but there was something else blocking them before any of that was ever factor. and it's something they carefully ignored, for decades, as if never speaking of it would set it neatly out of view. ]
Maybe we got old sooner than we thought.
[ maybe things would have been easier if they weren't forced to be adults by those around them. ]