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Venti arrived in Sigewinne's infirmary with a soft landing, holding onto his hat as he reformed and the winds around him dissipated. Sigewinne glanced up at him with a grin.
"You're here! What took so long? I was about to start drawing stickers without you!" She said, pouting in jest.
"Sorry, sorry!!" He sighed. "Jean keeps overworking herself. If no one checks up on her after she passes out she gets right back to work, so I stuck around making sure she was comfy and convincing her to take a break. You don't happen to have a medicine for that, do you?"
"Aw, poor Jean... maybe you could offer her one of my milkshakes!! I'll make one especially for her~" She sing-songed, earning a giggle from Venti.
"Sounds lovely! Lets hope she actually enjoys it, hehe..."
He sat down next to Sigewinne, eying over the different coloured pencils, markers, crayons and sticky-sided paper, alongside some scissors and a box. It wasn't long before inspiration struck and he began drawing out a design - an anemo slime - which inspired Sigewinne to draw a hydro slime to match!
The melusine sighed. "I'll never understand why humans overwork themselves like that. They can just continue the work tomorrow and take it slowly. It'll all build up in time!"
The wind hummed. "There's a number of reasons for it. They might want something, thus overworking to get the money to get it - they could wait, but patience can be hard for them to have - or, they could need it. Their employers may not give the employees enough money for them to support themselves and the others around them, thus they overwork. Sometimes, they just need approval, but they don't realise that either they're already approved of or they're simply reaching for impossible expectations. Maybe, they want to get all the work done to take a weight off their shoulders, but it just keeps piling on, or they want to work to help the ones around them. That's what Jean feels, hehe."
Sigewinne was looking up at him, a spark of understanding in her eyes as he continued. "Alas, patience can be hard for them to grasp, and they don't realise that asking for help won't burden the ones they go to. They can't see others or themselves how we see them. If they understood these things, I doubt they would work themselves to the bone so much!"
Sigewinne nodded, rhinophores bouncing as she did. "That does make more sense, thank you!"
Venti smiled back, and they continued drawing.
The melusine sighed as she finished colouring her slime - Venti had to correct her a little, as her blue wasn't the same as our blue. - "It would be lovely if I could've kept my humanity like you had, if I had held on just a little tighter, then I would be able to understand them by myself." She muttered sadly.
Venti had an almost pained look as he hummed again, this time forming into a tune, figuring out how to answer or comfort the little melusine beside him. Sigewinne was happy to wait as he strummed his lyre just a little while he hummed.
"Even though I kept the humanity I yearned for, I am still foreign to them, though I blend in a little better."
"...I doubt this will last anyway, They won't let me keep it for much longer, so for now, I'll tell you as much as I can before I rejoin you. Having two of us each with and without humanity may help us find a way to keep it - though, I wouldn't mind swapping with you if we could. You wanted it just as much as me, and you still do..." He sighed. "It is funny how the only desire us inhuman beings may happen to have is to be human."
Sigewinne spoke up. "I'm much happier that you were the one to be able to keep your humanity, even though I would've been overjoyed for it to have been both of us, I think you use it better - after all, you aren't the one who chose to stay in an underground fortress! I love it down there, but if I were the one to keep my humanity and not you, I'd run out of lessons until the occasional exciting event happens. Plus, you had it long before me, and if you didn't we would've both been without it until recently! So, I'm glad you held on." She smiled as she cut out her little slime.
The wind finished cutting his, placing it into the box of stickers. "Hehe, I suppose I have to agree. Would you like to ask anymore questions, then~?"