[Thinks about how one of the fanbooks said Kanda liked gardening and then Hoshino came around years later like "huh? no he doesn't" HOSHINO GIVE THIS MAN A FUCKING HOBBY
But he'll just quietly flip through the pages of the book until it lands on one with a lotus picture; Mathis will recognize it as being very similar to the ones baby Kanda saw in his hallucinations.]
[He glances sidelong at Mathis, trying to gauge how much he remembers without actually asking; after a moment, he shuts the book and hands it over so that Mathis can look at whatever pages he wants.]
["No" would be an easy answer, and it's what he'd default to most of the time. But he's had enough time away from the crowd to mellow out, so he thinks about how to answer a little more than he normally would.]
There's no time.
[Not for Kanda, anyway, who has never let himself stop and rest, relentless in his focus and pursuit of the things he's looking for.]
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[that flower is his child now he's a plant parent.]
...I don't think that I've ever seen a lotus, though.
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But he'll just quietly flip through the pages of the book until it lands on one with a lotus picture; Mathis will recognize it as being very similar to the ones baby Kanda saw in his hallucinations.]
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[oh, it's that flower.
...]
...were they important to you?
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No. [Thanks Kanda] I don't want this.
[Mathis's book now]
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he doesn't want to pry too much by explaining why he was asking, though, so he just accepts the book with a little nod.]
...thank you. I'll see whether it says anything about caring for orchids, then.
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From that garden? [He remembers the garden from when the NPCs first showed up]
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[it's still difficult for him to say, or to think on, after the way that it happened.]
So I've been caring for it, but I still don't know as much about that as I'd like.
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I say that but Kanda just kind of nods uselessly because he doesn't have hobbies outside of sword]
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... you spend so much time training. Is there anything else that you want to do?
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There's no time.
[Not for Kanda, anyway, who has never let himself stop and rest, relentless in his focus and pursuit of the things he's looking for.]
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[no judgment, just curiosity-- he understands having things that take precedence, but... still.]
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[Well. That's not strictly true? Plenty of people at the Order have hobbies, but--]
I'm in the middle of a mission.
[So he has other things he's been focusing on. And it's kind of always like that, for Kanda; he's not a top exorcist for nothing.]