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[The mirror forms from a an accidental touch as Kenshin works her way around a wall, looking for something in particular, knowing she'll find it eventually. She's silent for the moment, though she has been singing for no apparent reason all day... songs she doesn't know on top of it--but it isn't anything like being turned into a dragon so she has

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[c_zacatechichi]

[And then there is Miss Fela lingering curiously nearby. It is nice to see that Kenshin seems to be enjoying the day a bit, for once. She doesn't want to interrupt the other woman, but she doesn't want to not greet her either.]

That was lovely.

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[She noted the presence nearby, and on another occasion she would probably have made to distance herself form it, as it was she just remained there with the flowers.]

[She looked up, the normal scowl that seemed to cling to her face all but absent... instead she just looked tired.]

Hello, Fela-san...

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[c_zacatechichi]

[If she isn't to be rebuffed, she comes a little closer, crouching down on the balls of her feet beside the other woman. She smiles gently.]

Hello, Kenshin. How are you doing today?

[The tired expression worries her, but she holds back and gauges before she starts up her sisterly fussing.]

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I'm alright.

[She looks down at the flowers she'd gathered, lifting a hand to brush her fingers along the edge of a petal.]

Oddly nostalgic...

[More openly than usual anyway.]

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[Fela is really very earnest when she asks,]

What is nostalgic? What does it feel like?

[She has no distant memories to look over and long for those times.]

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[Kenshin looks over at her a bit more pointedly, that same curiousness that was in her expression the first time they spoke back again.]

It is... when you remember the past...

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It feels... sad... and happy... all at once...

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[c_zacatechichi]

[She listens with rapt attention, reaching out to touch the flowers that Kenshin holds, as if the soft sensation of the petals hold all the secrets to understanding.]

It's beyond my imagination, I think.

[She admits to it thoughtfully.]

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Why is that...?

[she had gathered that Fela was a bit of an odd duck by now, but she wasn't sure why the other woman wouldn't understand the concept even if she didn't recognize the words]

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[She smiles, the expression is not precisely insincere, but it is not a happy one either.]

I cannot remember the past.

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...

[She takes in the expression--recognizes that sort of rueful smile all too well (after all... most of the time that was what her own smiles looked like anymore--real ones seemed so fleeting).]

I see...

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Some of the girls have told me this is, perhaps, a lucky thing.

[She doesn't sound convinced on that point, but she doesn't mourn what is lost.]

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[She thinks on that for a long moment and then just shakes her head.]

Anyone who says that is taking the coward's way out... Being unable to remember the past may save someone from the pain of the bad things that happened... but it also means you're unable to learn from them... and unable to remember the good things...

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You have my condolences...

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[c_zacatechichi]

[It is a sad thing, at times, forgetting her family, her lovers, being forgotten by her father in kind. Fela directs her gaze to the flowers in Kenshin's hand once more.]

No need for that. Life calls for sacrifice, that is the only way I think I can understand its beauty.

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I can't disagree...

[although she is more than tired of being the one being sacrificed for... she keeps trying to put herself in that role and it just keeps backfiring...]

[her eyes follow Fela's back to the flowers, and she carefully pulls one of them free and offers it to her since she seems so intrigued by them.]

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[c_zacatechichi]

[She is surprised to be offered the flower, surprised but pleased and she smiles, leaning in to kiss the other woman on the cheek. Cause that's how she rolls it's Valentine's Day.]

Thank you.

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[Now it was her turn to be surprised. She straightens a little, eyes going wide, her whole face flushing until it was almost as red as her hair. Whatever reaction she was expecting that wasn't it.]

A-aa...

[And suddenly she felt like she was fifteen years old again, stuttering and falling all over herself over a pretty girl... She was drugged. Only explanation.]