after the first time Fyodor allowed her to stay at a large apartment he had, she spent the night in a guest room, and Dazai and Fyodor stayed up all night in the living room discussing plans. The next night Fyodor had her stay over as well. Just until she had somewhere else to go, he claimed, but he knew he could never let her go now, and it took a week until he realized Dazai felt the same way. They had an inexplicable desire to control her, and for what? They didn’t know. It’s been a week and a half now, and she’s asleep on the couch as they speak to each other in quiet voices near her. Dazai speaks in a lower tone as to not wake her. “She can only respond so well to a proposal to stay here forever. Top ten ways to make a girl run faster than you can blink, number one, propose living together after two weeks of knowing each other and light stalking.” Fyodor responds in a Russian accent “Unless we coax her into proposing the idea on her own.”