[SE] at the first cringe of morning

Isla

It's the when rather than the if that has Isla's gaze dropping to their abandoned coffee mugs, the Remedy finding it suddenly very difficult to meet Sunjata's tired eyes. Wrinkling her nose as he continues - eyes and teeth and tentacles still does not sound like the sort of thing she wants to introduce Everest to, thanks - ultimately, although she can be morally grey at times, she has always skewed towards the light. "Sunny..." Letting out a shuddering sigh and sagging back against the counter, she holds herself more tightly, shaking her head.

"I didn't know about Hotaru. I'm sorry," he murmurs. "I... this will ruin his life. I'll be ruining his life and knowing it, if I trick him into going to that hotspring." She says it to make sure it's out in the open more than because she wants to make an excuse not to; and she won't just be messing things up for the aviator, but for herself as well by default. If not only because Ever likely won't be able to stand in the same room as her, then because he'll rightfully hate her for taking away the peace he's found.

"I'll not even be able to be there," she realises. Halo at Deepfrost for an Ancient is more blatantly deadly than at any other time of year, and she'd not have been able to go then either.

sooner or later, we all have to wake
and try forgetting everything