You may sit if you wish. Please, make yourself comfortable.
[The tea set he'd found in the culinary arts room made it easier as he set the table, waiting until the water boiled before filling the teapot. His hand shook which caused the tea cup and saucer to rattle at the question.
That question...had taken him off guard. Surely he'd already told Yuugi why, through his journal but...this wasn't the same Yuugi was it. Technically he'd earned the real reason but he wasn't ready. Not again...]
Ah. That is a bit of a long story. I'm not sure you'd enjoy hearing the particulars. I was 17, and I'd traveled to Egypt at the time...I was inspired you might say.
[The circumstances behind it...the memories were hard to ignore, coming to the surface again. Cyndia's death...his insatiable search to find a way to bring her back; Pegasus' descent into the tomb where the mysterious Egyptian man who was the guardian of the Millennium items; Shadi gave him a choice of death or of one last possible chance to see Cyndia again. Even though it was seven years ago it seemed so much longer.]
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[The tea set he'd found in the culinary arts room made it easier as he set the table, waiting until the water boiled before filling the teapot. His hand shook which caused the tea cup and saucer to rattle at the question.
That question...had taken him off guard. Surely he'd already told Yuugi why, through his journal but...this wasn't the same Yuugi was it. Technically he'd earned the real reason but he wasn't ready. Not again...]
Ah. That is a bit of a long story. I'm not sure you'd enjoy hearing the particulars. I was 17, and I'd traveled to Egypt at the time...I was inspired you might say.
[The circumstances behind it...the memories were hard to ignore, coming to the surface again. Cyndia's death...his insatiable search to find a way to bring her back; Pegasus' descent into the tomb where the mysterious Egyptian man who was the guardian of the Millennium items; Shadi gave him a choice of death or of one last possible chance to see Cyndia again. Even though it was seven years ago it seemed so much longer.]