[voice]

[light_onmyoji]

Hokuto, I found some more fabric for you. You can use it to fix the strap on your --

[Silence. There's no sound for several moments, then a clatter as the communicator hits the floor. If you listen closely, you can hear Subaru calling 'Hokuto! Hokuto!' from a distance. This continues for several minutes until silence overtakes the post and it times

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[satsujin_ai]

She may return at a later date..

[light_onmyoji]

You can't really believe that, can you? I'm not sure if I want her to be here again.

[satsujin_ai]

Belief has no part in this. If they wish to bring her, she will return.

[light_onmyoji]

Did you believe I would ever come here, Seishirou-san?

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[satsujin_ai]

...

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[satsujin_ai]

Some time ago, I related a story to Nill (before your arrival.) If you wish to know the answer, ask her to tell it.

[light_onmyoji]

...A story?

I think I will, then.

[return post, after talking to Nill]

[light_onmyoji]

A strange metaphor, Seishirou-san.

[satsujin_ai]

I imagined you would find it so.

[light_onmyoji]

You told her that it was a friend...then said it was you. You were the night sky, with stars you wish you had.

[satsujin_ai]

'Wish I had..?' Perhaps not. So that is how she explained it to you.

[light_onmyoji]

And how one person had become a star in your sky.

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[satsujin_ai]

Consider the common proverb about absence..

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[light_onmyoji]

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder"...?

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[satsujin_ai]

.. Such a truth may only hold under its own condition.

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[light_onmyoji]

It is the heart's longing for normalcy. No one, in truth, likes change.