[Thread] Dawn

[not_comprehend]

Characters: AU!L, OU!River
Where: River's room (Dor-Deka)
When: Dawn
Summary: Ayumi and River talk
Warnings: none yet.

Transformation.  Feet light on the floor floating drifting slithering sound of sand beautiful demon but friend renewing himself rebuilding reset retry reboot.  The building whispered sweet nothings somethings stirring.  Stirring.

River's

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[agentlibre]

Something obstructing her view. Something foggy, niggling, beyond her peripheral vision, escaping her grasp. She wanted to force everything into order.

Near, your standards are slipping.

I have unfinished business.

One cannot jump to conclusions.

She had leaned forward, right near that glass... Slowly exhaling. Side to side, back and forth, until her warm breath on the chilled pane fogged up to make an even surface. With in finger, she was writing, writing...

...A timeline. A list of facts. Everything she knew, at once, in one place. Not the whole picture, but crucial elements of it... Enough to tell... Enough, I hope, to keep them safe...

In her left hand, hanging limp by her side, was an apple, already bitten. She sighed, looking out into the cold. One hip cocked slightly to the side, slightly hunched over... She raised her hand to take another bite.

And then River spoke. And again, Ayumi did not understand.

She turned, backlit by the dawning light outside.

"...Hm?" she replied, her mouth full.

[not_comprehend]

"Of him or for him?," River voiced the question again.

The light shifted slightly toward violet behind Ayumi. She stepped further into the room, drawing slightly closer to the window with its rapid words rapid letters. "What is enough?"

[agentlibre]

"Fear," she breathed.

She looked from River, to the window, to her chilled finger, and back to River.

"...a hundred percent," she said. Who am I kidding? I will never get there! She felt like crumpling.

[not_comprehend]

"A hundred percent is the total, but what is sufficient?"

River's eyes flitted quickly over the writing on the window. It was fading now that Ayumi's breath was facing away from it.

Desperation pouring off her in waves. River stood perfectly still.