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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[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.]