[Lavi knows a thing or two about smiles. He has one for every occasion, all of them similarly distasteful, every one a different fabrication. He knows the kind of smiles that hide and the ones that lie, and the ones that are meant to comfort anyone else but them.]

...We can still change it, but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.

[Or maybe they'll forget, once they go back. If they go back. Fate isn't set in stone, huh? But what would change if Lavi went back?

His hand moves gently, not so much a pet as it is a stroke.]

You've got the scars, Tuuri. They're a part of you, and that's not a bad thing. Just makes up who you are, yeah?