There's no place where this text could go now in the story, with it so much further along, but I did like the slight anthropomorphism of the television in this little moment.
Chie had slipped on one of Yousuke's shirts for the walk to the toilet, a dangerous excursion given her unfamiliarity with the place and the relative lack of light. Halfway back to the bedroom, she stopped in the main room, her gaze drawn to the large and silent television against the wall. She stepped over to it, staring into its blank, black surface.
Kuma had been only half-right. Everything had started with them – herself, Yousuke, Souji, and Kuma – but not them alone. The TV had played its own role, too, as had Izanami and her bastard puppet Adachi Tohru, as well as poor Yamano Mayumi and Konishi Saki...and Yukiko.
Chie hadn't missed the way that Souji's whole demeanor seemed to change whenever Yukiko's name was mentioned at dinner tonight. Was he still in love with her? Was she the reason that he had come back?
More important, was Yukiko still in love with him?
And what was Yousuke up to, suggesting that Souji go to see Yukiko? He knew as well as anyone the pain and grief that Yukiko had suffered when Souji had left that first time. Why would he want to put her through that, all over again? Souji was back, yes...but how soon before he would up and leave again, scattering broken hearts in his wake?
There's a lot of burbling animosity that Chie holds for Souji throughout the story - because of her feelings for Yousuke and Yukiko - but he (Souji, that is) is not meant at all to be any kind of villain (yet). I simply wanted to accurately portray Chie's feelings of abandonment, and the anger that someone like her would feel at being left behind by someone for whom she had once cared so deeply as a girl.
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