Don't talk like that. [That came out a little too harshly.] You are a beautiful, wonderful person, and I want you to have the happiest ever after imaginable. And I won't settle for less than you, smiling happily as you get everything your heart yearns for.

The hurt I felt? It is ok. I promise you. I'm going to let my heart find happiness, but I want you to enjoy your happiness. However...

[She frowned a little.]

You sound like me in the old days. What room are you in. I'm bringing you something. No talk back. Or tomorrow's going to be awful.

[Vira-Lorr was a veteran of getting drunk off her gourd. She knew all manner of hangover cures, and the sound in that voice? She was coming over. Yeah, Makoto did not sound well off right now.]