TSUYUKUSA

[foreversweaterweather]

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[branches]

... Yeah. But there's nothing we can do to change that.
[The conflicted yet resolute look of someone who's had to grapple with this before.]

[foreversweaterweather]

Then...then what are we supposed to do?

[branches]

[LOUD, TENSE SIGH.]

I guess... I think my father would say we should make sure to remember them. And to live well, to do what they would have wanted us to do.

[... Looking down.]
I guess I have to wash my feet.

[foreversweaterweather]

[ that almost makes sense, almost sounds like something Mabel could believe...

but then he drops the bit about his feet. ]

...w-wha...?

[branches]

Lila was on my case about it, I mean.

[Sigh.]

I don't think it matters that much but... it's something.

[foreversweaterweather]

She was mad at you for having dirty feet...?

[branches]

I don't think she was mad, but she didn't like it, or whatever.

[foreversweaterweather]

So you're gonna...wash your feet in Lila's memory?

[branches]

Well it sounds stupid when you put it like that.

[foreversweaterweather]

[ well. Mabel thinks it sounds a lil weird, but not stupid! ]

...what about shoes? Are you gonna start wearing shoes too, for her?

[branches]

... I guess maybe? The shoes you all wear seem weird though. So I guess I'll have to ask Chad if I can get some tabi.

[foreversweaterweather]

...you're gonna wear cats on your feet?

[branches]

[Squints???]

What?

[foreversweaterweather]

You know, tabbies? Tabby cats?

[branches]

Tabi, not tabby. [THEY SOUND THE SAME, TSUYUKUSA??]

They're a bit like socks, with a notch in the toe for sandals, except the ones I wear have a hard bottom so you don't need sandals.

[foreversweaterweather]

Oh, so like those weird toe shoes! Cool!