[DEFINITELY TELLING DAINE ABOUT RIRI'S NEW NICKNAME.]

Now, now, it's both our faults, technically. We both reached out, and we both let the other in. [And perhaps that's the real reason he wants to "test" Riku's patience. Because he got so close, Joshua's maybe trying to push him away. He can't afford close relationships, platonic or otherwise. Either he will outlive them or they will outlive him. One or the other ends in pain, and if the relationship goes sour...well.

The question is...can he, after all the two have been through?

Who knows.]

Fair enough. Anything else you want to know?