ACE ATTORNEY AU

[enigmaster]

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[agoodname]

[. . . .]

"...can I help?"

[enigmaster]

[Edward just... shrugs. He doesn't know.]

[agoodname]

[that's fair. Elijah hums, quietly.]

"It can be a bit difficult to suss out what you're feeling when you're in a situation that you perhaps haven't dealt with before." [he considers] "I suppose it's best to just start with a small piece and go from there. So what's the simplest bit to suss out?"

[enigmaster]

I don't know. [...] I guess I'm kind of angry, still.

[agoodname]

[Elijah nods at that, understanding] "I can understand that. What are you mad about?"

[enigmaster]

That Oswald went behind my back. That he didn't listen to me when I told him I was fine.

...That he shared something that's not his to share.

[agoodname]

[another nod.] "And yet you're still here. Why?"

[enigmaster]

I don't know. ...I just... don't want to leave.

[agoodname]

"....that's a good place to start, then. Figuring out why you don't want to leave."

[enigmaster]

...I guess. [Where does he even start with that? ...] ...He said he was sorry.

[agoodname]

"I should hope so, if he was in the wrong." [gently, but...] "That's unusual, though. For you."

[enigmaster]

...No one's ever apologized for this before. [Or. Well. People haven't really apologized to him much in general, but. Elijah can probably guess as much.]

[agoodname]

"Why is an apology important?"

[enigmaster]

...People just never really seem to care about betraying my trust, I guess. They just act like it's no big deal or they were right to do it or... whatever. [...] I'm still angry about it, but I kind of expected him to just brush it off completely.

[agoodname]

"And he didn't." [Elijah considers that] "And...what are your thoughts on that?"

[enigmaster]

I don't know. It's... weird.

[agoodname]

"It's weird that your opinion and thoughts mean something to him enough that he realized he had misstepped in a big way?"

[enigmaster]

[Well, if you're just gonna come out and say it...] ...Yes.

[agoodname]

"...is it a good weird or a bad weird?"

[enigmaster]

I... [He... trails off. That should be an easy one, but.] I'm not... sure...

[agoodname]

"Both, then?" [gently] "Good because it's nice to know that your opinions and thoughts are important but bad because it's different?"

[enigmaster]

[... damn it Elijah stop making sense?] ...I guess. I'm not really sure what to do with it.

[agoodname]

"That makes sense if you've never dealt with it before." [he considers again, for a minute] "....what do you want the result to be, once you talk to him?"

[enigmaster]

... I don't know.

[agoodname]

"So it's all one big...unknown."