"You should go home." Rayet was faced towards him, but her eyes were not on him. They flickered back to him a few seconds later, and he looked at her inquisitively.

"I will be returning to work." Inaho stated. He did need to get back. This had been an insightful and surprisingly useful outing, but he had obligations. It wasn't an ideal way of expressing it, but it was adequate at that moment. He couldn't quite convince himself he wanted to go back, but he knew it was important. It was a place he needed to be. He hoped at some point that he would be able to even think of categorizing it as a place he wanted to be. "Yuki-nee will want to take you to dinner."

Inko nudged Rayet, and smiled. "Will Lucia be joining us?" She asked, tilting her head and angling her gaze towards the woman beside him. He blinked over at Lucia next to him.

She smiled, but shook her head no. "Thank you very much for receiving me so kindly. I had a wonderful time with everyone." She gave Inko a sincere, beautiful smile, then those green eyes were on Rayet. "I thank you for your candor. I'm afraid I don't have much talent at debates, but I hope we can speak, and share opinions again in the future. Never lose your strong opinions, and don't let anyone tell you that you are wrong for noticing injustices when most are willing to simply ignore them."

It wasn't what he had expected her to say, and he angled a sideways glance towards the woman next to him, before shifting his eye back towards Inko, who looked similarly stunned. "Inko." Within a few seconds her eyes were back on him, warm and inquisitive. "Thank you. Please do not worry about me. I'll see you again soon."

She blinked at him, and then smiled warmly. "Of course you will." She leaned down, and placed a finger into the small carrying case Lucia held in her hand. "I would hate not to see this little guy again."

"The kitten is female."

Rayet rolled her eye at him. "It was a figure of speech. You know that." A small mewl came out of the box, but Inaho found himself looking more at Rayet. She looked strange, and he couldn't place it. Instead, he let it go.

"You'll keep her for a little while? Till the guy she's for is back on his feet?" Inko asked, smiling down into the carrying cage.

"Yes." Inaho added.

"Then I'll get to see you again, cutie!" Inko swirled her finger around in the cage a few more time, before popping back up to her feet. "We'll see you soon, Inaho." She then turned to Lucia, and there was a soft smile on Inko's face. "I hope we see you again Lucia. It was wonderful to spend the day with you!"

From there, Rayet grunted something that might have been a farewell of some sort, and the two women closed the door of their hotel. In the few seconds interim, between that door closing, and them moving towards the elevator, Lucia looked at him. She seemed very, very tired. He motioned for her to go with him, and she nodded softly.

They stayed in companionable silence, as the two of them took the elevator to the ground floor. Lucia waited patiently for him to hobble through the lobby, and out into the open air. They called for a cab, and a few minutes later, one came and picked them up. They did not speak in the taxi either, but when they arrived at Inaho's apartment complex, they paid the cab, and wordlessly went to the apartment he shared with Yuki.

They placed down the carrying case, and Lucia looked up at him questioningly, before he nodded his head, and she smiled. Quietly, she opened up the case, so that a small little furry head poked out. It immediately went to paw at her fingers. Inaho watched for a few minutes, and in a flash of brilliance, it was no longer 'Lucia' but now the Empress Asseylum, sitting on his apartment floor, playing with a kitten that fit in her hands. He was surprised to find her hair cascading down her back. He'd only ever seen her with it down once, and it had been a very unpleasant experience.

"It's charming." She said warmly, as the small calico kitten jumped up into her lap and curled into a ball. "Slaine will adore it. It is kind, and affectionate."

Inaho looked at the kitten, and the contented smile on Seylum's face. The kitten was lying on its back in her lap, swiping at a long strand of golden blond hair. "It doesn't know any better yet. It is still young and impressionable. It will be up to him to make sure it gets love and affection."

She looked up at him, and he couldn't tell all of what was on her face. "Slaine is a kind person. I think it is because he is so kind, that he has suffered so much." Seylum reached down, and ran her hand over the exposed stomach of the kitten, which mewled up at her. "I might have suspected, when they took him away from me the first time, but it was easy to ignore. I tried not to trouble myself over it, and told myself that if it was happening, there was nothing I could do about it. Now, all I know is what others tell me. My sister, Eddelrittuo, my fiancé. They all seem to have much better ideas of who my childhood friend is than I do." She shook her head, and her hair flowed around her. He could see the cat's eyes mesmerized by the movement. "I fear, that I am actually quite insensitive and that it is only now that I am realizing it." She shook her head, and smiled again. "Slaine is not like me. He is genuinely kind. He will give this little thing the love and affection it deserves."

There were too many holes in her statements for him to process them entirely. Instead, he filed away his predictions, his assumptions, and his conclusions. Inaho placed the crutch against the wall of the apartment, and sat down across from her. He Reached out and poked the nose of the small kitten in her lap. "Animals are simplistic in their emotional needs. Physical reassurance is often all they require to know that we care. Humans are not so simple. We must communicate, we must speak, and we must run the risk of being misunderstood." He looked up at her. "I can say with a very high probability that if you wish to learn who Slaine Troyard is, you need only reach out to him, and listen."

Inaho knew, with absolute certainty, that he was not the person to be giving this sort of advice. He was not good at communicating. He was not good at being understood. Time and time again he failed to express his intentions, even when they were stated as plainly as he could possibly state them. It was frustrating. It was also frustrating not knowing what other people meant. But this day had reminded him, that despite his faults, he had people that cared about him. People that wanted to spend time with him, and were concerned, despite his social inabilities. He'd been slowly cutting himself free of them. Not answering calls, forgetting to read messages. It hadn't even seemed like a drastic change until earlier that very day.

Humans were social creatures. His sister had been ecstatic when he'd first met Inko, and they had become friends. She had known from the very start he needed friends, and somehow, despite his faults, things had fallen into place. The thought of how he had almost alienated that, was strange. It painted a very bleak image in his head of monotonous days. His sister had told him that he needed to empathize, and perhaps he understood that a little more now. "It doesn't have to be a lot. We have paper and pen. Yuki-nee says it is easier to correspond through letters. You can think about what you want to say, and it is easier to say what you need to."

Seylum blinked her beautiful green eyes at him, then looked down at the small kitten in her lap, who had tumbled over, and was now curled in her lap. "Perhaps you're right." She looked up and smiled at him. "I will."

Inaho nodded. "It will be a good gift. I'll wait for you." He looked down at the cat one more time, then looked up at her again. "But there is more we must discuss. Why are you here, Seylum?"

Her face went distant at his inquiry, but she didn't look away from him. "I have another request of you. One of a very similar nature."