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[fools-maiden.livejournal.com]

It wasn't a dream?

[Hamuko looks a little disheveled, as if she's just woken up. Which... she has.]

...How long was I asleep?

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[fools-maiden.livejournal.com]

Yeah... no, don't be sorry. It's best this way. Everyone else is alive and happy.

[fools_journey]

_{[Everyone else... Then things had gone more or less the same for her as well.]}

Yes... that is true. I suppose I just hoped maybe you would find a different way.

_{[But if she has no regrets, he supposes he is satisfied.]}

[fools-maiden.livejournal.com]

There needs to be someone holding Nyx at bay. I'm okay with being the one.

[fools_journey]

_{[He nods.]} Good.

_{[And then a pause as he hesitates about saying something.]} I'm glad you're back here, again, in any case.

[fools-maiden.livejournal.com]

...I think it's a pretty good privilege, yeah.

[fools_journey]

_{[He looks down and puts his hands into his pockets, because apparently that's just what he does.]}

By the way, although it's been months for you, it's only been about two days here.

[fools-maiden.livejournal.com]

Two days??

[fools_journey]

Mm. _{[Insert nod here.]} You fell asleep after eating the apple that turned you back human, minus the tail.

[fools-maiden.livejournal.com]

--Tail!

[SCRAMBLING--IT'S STILL THERE]

[fools_journey]

[He laughs a bit at that.] Everyone kept some change after the apple... You get the fluffy tail again.

[fools-maiden.livejournal.com]

Gah! How embarrassing. I suppose it won't be too hard to hide, though...

[fools_journey]

I don't think you really need to hide it, especially as you're not the only one with a tail or something. _{[He twitches his, unconsciously flexing the fin on the end.]}

[fools-maiden.livejournal.com]

[Hamuko glances over Minato's shoulder to see it.

...Whoa.]

[fools_journey]

_{[Her looking at it makes him a bit self conscious about it, and he makes it stop twitching.]}

There's another girl with rabbit ears and a guy with fairy wings, too.

[fools-maiden.livejournal.com]

Y-yes, but it's still weird...

[fools_journey]

Yeah, I suppose. _{[He glances back at his tail again and hers and then shrugs.]} You get used to it pretty quickly, though. _{[Or at least he has.]}

[fools-maiden.livejournal.com]

...I hope no one pulls it.

[And our first thought is of Junpei, sigh.]

[fools_journey]

<sub>[Now that she's said that...
> Pull the tail.
> Don't pull the tail.

... > Don't pull the tail.
He likes to think he has more common sense than Junpei. Still... ]</sub>

You're tempting fate, if you say that aloud.

[fools-maiden.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say it around someone like Junpei.

[fools_journey]

Hm. I think he'd pull it anyway, regardless of if you said something.

[fools-maiden.livejournal.com]

....Probably.

[fools_journey]

_{[He falls quiet again for a time, watching her before his eyes drifted away, thoughtful.]}

So... when was it when you -- left?

[fools-maiden.livejournal.com]

I was on the school roof... I was so tired...

[fools_journey]

_{[He nods and remembers Aigis' lap and everyone spilling out of the stairwell. He wonders if things played out exactly the same for her. It's a little weird to think of their lives being so parallel, and yet... it makes sense in its own way.]}

Graduation day?

[fools-maiden.livejournal.com]

Yeah.