[Once Shinjiro finishes that beer, it'll be Scott turn to get him a new drink. It's only fair, so she can't say no. They have a lot of tickets they won't be using, anyway. Righ?

Back in the day, Scott had been on the streets for a bit.Then his powers showed up for real, he almost killed a bunch of people by accident, had to run away from an angry mob that wanted to lynch him...All that while keeping his eyes shut and virtually blind. Not a funny coming of age experience. Just thinking about it makes Scott want to drink, so he does just that.

Then he waits patiently until Shinjiro is ready, he would have accepted silence too. It has been a very personal question after all. What he gets is even worse than what he was expecting. It's also easy to understand now why Akihiko was so ready to go into the shadow world to find Shinjiro.]

I'm sorry. [ I was left there, no big deal ...sounds an awful lot like a big deal to Scott, really. He wishes he knew how to help. ] You all deserved better.

[Yes, Scott can see that Shinjiro is focussing on Akihiko rather than his own feelings but he won't call him out on it. Everyone deals with things differently and after what happened in that subarchway, Shinjiro is allowed to take as much time as he needs. Without a word, Scott leaves two of his tickets on the bar and motion to the bartender to serve them two more beers.]

If it matters any, I'm really glad you are all here. That you...are here and we met.