[Or maybe the saddest thing of all is that Shell might not even recognize them if he saw them -- nor is he particularly invested in seeing them. His mother and father, perhaps, but even they were the source of a lot of mixed feelings.]

[The fear that he may not be able to live as freely as he has so far should anyone else from home awaken has certainly crossed his mind, selfish as it may be.]

Hm? Ah, that... actually, I don't really know what that is. They just don't work how they're supposed to anymore for some reason... normally you'd just get scared instead of smelling anything.

But I knew about the scent. I think I mentioned before that One isn't affected by pheromones at all, and he told me once that I just had a flowery scent to him. So that's just... how I smell, I guess.

[Something Chuuya would have experienced more than once by now, given the scent does just linger on his skin and in his blood. Anytime they cuddled, Chuuya probably would have left the encounter smelling a bit like roses himself.]