I'm glad. Waking up here is... well. If this is where we have to be, then I want to do what I can to make it less of a burden on everyone. [ That, she means. She's not the picture of pure altruism that Sanji is - she couldn't be, she's sure, if she tried. But. ]
At home, there's always enough for everyone. I want to make at least that the same, if I can. Nobody should be hungry.
[ Totto Land, for all of its veneers and facades and poisonous underpinnings, is a land of absolute plenty. Beacon is not. And that's unacceptable. The residents here are not alive, per se, sure, but it feels like they are. Hunger feels like hunger. So Pudding's meeting that the same way. ]
[ She pauses, biting her lip. She caught that look in Reiju's eyes. She knows, she knows she has so much to answer for. If it had been one of Sanji's brothers who'd shown up... ha. No. But the way he'd looked at Reiju, every snatch of time Pudding was in the same space with the siblings over those short few days... The way Sanji looked at, spoke to, his sister was entirely different. (The same held when she wasn't around; so she'd heard from Mama, reports, the Homies.) And Pudding... hell, Pudding had kind of liked her too from the little she knew. Academically. At home, she'd only ever liked anyone academically. ]
I don't know... how much you know. Everything was so wild. [ Her next laugh is short, one note of disbelief that would be tinged bitter if things had gone differently that night. If Sanji-san wasn't Sanji-san. ] The Straw Hats are everything you read about in the papers and don't believe and then some. [ She... sets her fork down. ] I know you said you're not bearing grudges. And I genuinely appreciate that. But. I'm a Power User.... I might... have more to apologize for than you know about.
inserts all the royal politeness levels of who eats what first at what pace as background radiation
At home, there's always enough for everyone. I want to make at least that the same, if I can. Nobody should be hungry.
[ Totto Land, for all of its veneers and facades and poisonous underpinnings, is a land of absolute plenty. Beacon is not. And that's unacceptable. The residents here are not alive, per se, sure, but it feels like they are. Hunger feels like hunger. So Pudding's meeting that the same way. ]
[ She pauses, biting her lip. She caught that look in Reiju's eyes. She knows, she knows she has so much to answer for. If it had been one of Sanji's brothers who'd shown up... ha. No. But the way he'd looked at Reiju, every snatch of time Pudding was in the same space with the siblings over those short few days... The way Sanji looked at, spoke to, his sister was entirely different. (The same held when she wasn't around; so she'd heard from Mama, reports, the Homies.) And Pudding... hell, Pudding had kind of liked her too from the little she knew. Academically. At home, she'd only ever liked anyone academically. ]
I don't know... how much you know. Everything was so wild. [ Her next laugh is short, one note of disbelief that would be tinged bitter if things had gone differently that night. If Sanji-san wasn't Sanji-san. ] The Straw Hats are everything you read about in the papers and don't believe and then some. [ She... sets her fork down. ] I know you said you're not bearing grudges. And I genuinely appreciate that. But. I'm a Power User.... I might... have more to apologize for than you know about.