( there's a long moment where shanks doesn't reply. it's a strange feeling, to know that mihawk is just ... gone. he has a million questions. how? why? when? but none of them seem particularly appropriate at the moment. or maybe it's just easier not to talk about it.
he remembers all too well what that absence feels like. shanks might have been the one to leave first, but that hadn't meant he hadn't felt like he'd lost something. like some invisible fire had gone out and left him cold. he doesn't have to imagine what koby must feel now. he knows it like the back of his hand. )
are you still by the river? i have a ship docked upstream, you can't miss it you're welcome to find a room here, in the meantime
( he's not ignoring the issue, he's just ... conveniently not addressing it. )
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he remembers all too well what that absence feels like. shanks might have been the one to leave first, but that hadn't meant he hadn't felt like he'd lost something. like some invisible fire had gone out and left him cold. he doesn't have to imagine what koby must feel now. he knows it like the back of his hand. )
are you still by the river?
i have a ship docked upstream, you can't miss it
you're welcome to find a room here, in the meantime
( he's not ignoring the issue, he's just ... conveniently not addressing it. )