Shimmering Sands chugux ✴

i will be alright.

there are lots of lies, if told convincingly, someone might believe. that they didn't eat the last cookie, or that they didn't sneak out last night while one was asleep - these white lies could be bought and sold with casual affair, provided the speaker delivered their untruths convincingly. but watching this woman, who still bore the path of tears on her delicate face -- koro toro knew her to be a liar.

but perhaps lying to yourself after a great loss was the only way to continue on - fake it 'til you make it. koro toro did not announce his dubious thoughts, electing instead to casually scan the sea and thus avoid the hard bite of her gaze. "hey, i say the same thing." he said with a blithe, almost too-chipper voice as he referenced the malady that would eventually end him, the faintest hint of a sardonic smile lingering on his sharply cut muzzle.