IT FEELS LIKE IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME since Todoroki has experienced the city at peace. It’s weird, like that strange sense of calm as a storm is approaching on the horizon. Still, it isn’t as if he’d complain about it, and it’s nice to see his teacher looking a normal level of ‘tired’ instead of the myriad shades of stressed out and tense the events of the city have forced him into.
They’re supposed to be training – no slacking off, even here – but right now it’s break time on a park bench in the green sector.
<<Sensei, I have a question.>>
<<Do you think it’s going to get cold again soon? I still… don’t have my Quirk back.>> Not, he realizes, that it’s all that relevant – he never used his fire half to self-regulate his temperature before – but there is that smidgeon of self-doubt in his voice, however minute.
After everything had happened, he’s almost glad to welcome back his OLD worries. There was no creatures teeming through the streets, no crunch of metal beneath his bruising knuckles, no earth-shattering roar that threatens to drive him absolutely deaf-- just the usual hustle and bustle of a city built back from cinders.
He doesn’t let who’s still here laze around. Not after everything that’s happened. Although, he supposes a break once in a while isn’t too bad.
His eyes shift to his student after he poses his inquiry, leaning back on the bench and pressing his back against the smoothed wood.
“You don’t need a quirk to survive the winter. It would be useful, but you’ll just have to bundle up like the rest of us. I trust you haven’t lost that coat already.” It may have warmed up since the boy’s arrival, but summer never lasts, and the chill of autumn was already settling in. Seems he was going to have to make sure they all had proper clothing, too. Honestly...sometimes kid were such a pain.