[Kaveh almost snorts at Alhaitham's blunt and brusque introduction, and looks up to stare at Alhaitham's very unsubtle attempt at...something. Well, for him it's a nice gesture.]
[Heizou slowly looks up at Alhaitham with the same sort of hollow expression on his face. He's obviously not surprised to see him exactly - the man lives here, after all - but for a moment he does wonder why he's chosen to make an appearance. It ultimately doesn't matter, though. And Heizou drags his gaze to eye the chessboard that he's brought out with him.
He still doesn't get up from where he's sitting on the floor with Kaveh and Shadowlily in his lap, even as he stares at the board on the table.]
...Chess isn't productive.
[But he'll behave for Kaveh's sake. Honestly he feels too out of it to pester Alhaitham in his usual way, anyway.]
[If Heizou thinks that how despondent he looks will in anyway affect Alhaitham at all, then he's going to be disappointed. It's not that he is ignorant of how the Inazuman is currently feeling, nor he is attempting to trivialize it, but like it or not life goes on no matter what.]
It helps to keep your mind sharp and awake. [He returns without missing a beat, arms coming up to cross over his chest.] A good mental exercise is just as valuable as a physical one, but you'll have to be out in the yard for that.
[...yeah he's trying his best here okay, Alhaitham is not good at this making people feel better thing.]
He's trying to give you other things to focus on. [Kaveh helpfully translates, before slowly standing up, tugging Heizou gently with him. Come on sir let's get you off the hardwood you'll feel that in your knees in a few years--]
Haitham, do we still have any of the cookies from the other day?
[Kaveh is considering snacks and dinner in roughly that order.]
[Honestly he doesn't think Alhaitham would be affected by anything that isn't directly related to Kaveh, so it's more like Heizou's turning his emotions off again in order to deal with him. And if he already heard everything before approaching them out here, then there's no point to rehashing anything.
He lets Kaveh pull him back up to his feet, Shadowlily having to leap away once there's no more lap to sit in. And, as if he's still in a kind of daze, Heizou makes his way over to the table. He slips into the seat opposite Alhaitham, eyes on the chessboard and frowning at the pieces.]
[After Shadowlily leaves Heizou she makes an immediate beeline for Alhaitham AKA her favorite parent, jumping right up onto his lap and happily curling up there.
Alhaitham, on his own end, pointedly ignores the black ball of fur that has meandered its way over to him in favor of glancing over to his husband, nodding in response to the question. Yes, they still have the cookies. Yes, he did want to eat them. Yes, he'll give them to Heizou, he supposes, if they must.]
You don't have to be hungry for your body to still need food.
[He tilts his head at Alhaitham--he'll give him some cookies, hush--and vanishes into the kitchen, though not before making a noise to beckon Shadowlily to follow him.]
[Heizou just makes a soft, discontented noise at Kaveh's statement, even as he continues to stare at the chess pieces. He kind of already misses having the cat curled up against him, if only because he feels so cold again, sitting upright in a proper chair at a table. It'd be better to find something he could just sink into and never emerge from again.
But finding such a thing takes effort. And Heizou can't seem to spare any for that right now. So he just stares and stares and stares at the chessboard, face blank and completely silent.]
[Even the prospect of the food cannot be ignored by Shadowlily, who oh so reluctantly uncurls herself from the lap of her favorite parent and jumps down in order to follow Kaveh to the kitchen. Alhaitham watches the feline for a bit, just to make sure she doesn't decide to take a detour to knock down another one of his fish figures, and once he's content he turns back to Heizou who is continuing on his... whatever he's doing. Being horribly despondent, clearly.
...for what it's worth, Alhaitham doesn't really make an attempt to egg him into playing chess—no point anyway if he isn't interested—so all he does it to pick up the book he brought along with him for this exact scenario and starts reading without another word. If he is at all bothered by the stiff silence that has come to settle in the room, he makes no show of it, simply doing nothing more besides continuing to read his book.]
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Think you two can behave while I make dinner?
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He still doesn't get up from where he's sitting on the floor with Kaveh and Shadowlily in his lap, even as he stares at the board on the table.]
...Chess isn't productive.
[But he'll behave for Kaveh's sake. Honestly he feels too out of it to pester Alhaitham in his usual way, anyway.]
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It helps to keep your mind sharp and awake. [He returns without missing a beat, arms coming up to cross over his chest.] A good mental exercise is just as valuable as a physical one, but you'll have to be out in the yard for that.
[...yeah he's trying his best here okay, Alhaitham is not good at this making people feel better thing.]
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Haitham, do we still have any of the cookies from the other day?
[Kaveh is considering snacks and dinner in roughly that order.]
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He lets Kaveh pull him back up to his feet, Shadowlily having to leap away once there's no more lap to sit in. And, as if he's still in a kind of daze, Heizou makes his way over to the table. He slips into the seat opposite Alhaitham, eyes on the chessboard and frowning at the pieces.]
I'm really not that hungry.
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Alhaitham, on his own end, pointedly ignores the black ball of fur that has meandered its way over to him in favor of glancing over to his husband, nodding in response to the question. Yes, they still have the cookies. Yes, he did want to eat them. Yes, he'll give them to Heizou, he supposes, if they must.]
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[He tilts his head at Alhaitham--he'll give him some cookies, hush--and vanishes into the kitchen, though not before making a noise to beckon Shadowlily to follow him.]
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But finding such a thing takes effort. And Heizou can't seem to spare any for that right now. So he just stares and stares and stares at the chessboard, face blank and completely silent.]
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...for what it's worth, Alhaitham doesn't really make an attempt to egg him into playing chess—no point anyway if he isn't interested—so all he does it to pick up the book he brought along with him for this exact scenario and starts reading without another word. If he is at all bothered by the stiff silence that has come to settle in the room, he makes no show of it, simply doing nothing more besides continuing to read his book.]