[It's not unusual to see Hikaru in the bookshop, sprawled on the floor looking through anything with beautiful photographs or illustrations. Her little ptero friend stays nestled in her hair for the most part as she reads, only adjusting once or twice to take a quick trip up to the rafters to stretch.
It's one of those trips, when Hikaru isn't entirely aware that someone else occupies the bookstore with her, that a memory is hit by the clip of a wing. It starts out triumphantly. With exhaustion and pain, but boldly, with a purpose. A final step. And then something goes wrong.]
she shouldn't be here. this memory isn't hers to see. the feelings in it don't belong to her, from the relief and triumph of a job well done to the stark horror of the truth of what they were meant to do.
(had they been lied to, or was it simply...?)
but for all the sorrow ... from what she can see, hikaru succeeded. ]
... Shidou-san. It must have been terrible, to learn such a thing in the manner you did.
[ even as she's saying them she's struck with the notion that these words are horribly inadequate. should she say anything at all? silence seems worse. ]
But ... it was what she wanted.
[ there is so much that she is lacking context for. still, if the pillar is responsible for the well-being of the world...
what happened to that world after? did ... they manage to save anything?
she can't know. and as such, she cannot offer any form of reassurance other than what she already has, because if she offers empty platitudes and hikaru knows the consequences of what she was forced to do...
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heartablaze) wrote2020-09-10 04:13 pm
WEEK FOUR - WEDNESDAY
It's one of those trips, when Hikaru isn't entirely aware that someone else occupies the bookstore with her, that a memory is hit by the clip of a wing. It starts out triumphantly. With exhaustion and pain, but boldly, with a purpose. A final step. And then something goes wrong.]
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she shouldn't be here. this memory isn't hers to see. the feelings in it don't belong to her, from the relief and triumph of a job well done to the stark horror of the truth of what they were meant to do.
(had they been lied to, or was it simply...?)
but for all the sorrow ... from what she can see, hikaru succeeded. ]
... Shidou-san. It must have been terrible, to learn such a thing in the manner you did.
[ even as she's saying them she's struck with the notion that these words are horribly inadequate. should she say anything at all? silence seems worse. ]
But ... it was what she wanted.
[ there is so much that she is lacking context for. still, if the pillar is responsible for the well-being of the world...
what happened to that world after? did ... they manage to save anything?
she can't know. and as such, she cannot offer any form of reassurance other than what she already has, because if she offers empty platitudes and hikaru knows the consequences of what she was forced to do...
no, she can't say anything at all. ]