[ That's good enough. "Shouldn't stay" doesn't necessarily mean A2 is walking back her idea of stopping by from time to time.

Sticking around for today is more than enough. It seems the cats approve of that decision as well considering how a few of them curl up nearby and start drifting off, lulled to sleep by her warmth. ]

I don't really mind.

[ Minato crouches near one of the cats. He holds his hand out in an invitation. The little one gets up to rub its face against his fingers, its whiskers tickling against his skin. ]

I think my luck's been pretty bad too.

[ In fact, one might even argue that his entire life had been a string of bad luck: between Moonlight Bridge, the way he'd been passed from relative to relative, recruited into a group that struggled to avert the destruction of their world.

But he shakes his head, dismissing all of that as mere facts of life. ]

...it's held up okay here though. So maybe yours will too.