| The Second Aura • Video |

[reflectivedawn]

[The video function turns on and at first all that can be seen is a bubble floating above a very distinctive mane of silver hair. Filling that bubble is a lone orb, shaped roughly like a heart, it's center a deep, glowing blue, while the edges of it a real pitch black and appear to be fading. Apparently someone's heart has decided to take on the

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[marsfireignite]

What were you looking at?

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[marsfireignite]

I want to see if I can feel it in you. That's all.

It's okay if you say no. But if you ever do see me, I'll be able to feel it anyway. So now you know.

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[reflectivedawn]

[He's quiet for a moment, bright green eyes staring at the floor as he works through his though process.

At least until he begins to fiddle with the PCD, sending her a set of coordinates that will lead her to a tree on the edge of the waste.]

I'll be there in an hour.

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[marsfireignite]

[Good. That gives her some time to reason out an excuse to go the Wastelands by herself.]

Thanks.

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[reflectivedawn]

[She's going to the store to get milk. Duh.]

For?

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[marsfireignite]

Trusting me.

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[reflectivedawn]

We'll see about that.

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[marsfireignite]

I'll leave my axe-murderer manual at home.

See you in an hour.

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[reflectivedawn]

[He is so not amused, Rei. So. Not. Amused.

Totally cutting the feed now. He'll see you in an hour Miss. Axe-Murder-By-Book.]

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[marsfireignite]

[Yeah, well. She does that.

She wanders over in an hour, coat zipped up, hands in pockets. She tilts her head slightly at the sight of Riku by the tree -- and, without a doubt, Rei feels something. It isn't overpowering, like with Sebastian or Lucifer, or even a constant presence, like Szayel or Ulquiorra. Just a soft undercurrent.]

Hey.

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[reflectivedawn]

[He looks up as she speaks, arms folded his chest and he rest against the base of a whithered old tree, the truck twisted and jaunting. He wonders, silently, exactly what she's expecting to get from this. Only that nothing was ever as black or white as it seemed.]

Hey.

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[marsfireignite]

You're a lot taller.

[Observantly -- she pauses a few feet away, watching him for a moment.

Now Rei knew what his energy felt like. Which meant Riku could never sneak up on her.]

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[reflectivedawn]

What were you expecting?

[It doesn't matter. It's still close enough to him to do what he needs to do. To sense the light them seems to surround her and the darkness that edges in around it. But the intent wasn't there. The need or want to use that darkness wasn't present. The light might have been tinged, but it shone brightly.

She could be trusted.]

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[marsfireignite]

Nothing, nothing.

[She has one loud obnoxious short boy in her life. She doesn't need two.]

Does using the Darkness hurt you at all?

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[reflectivedawn]

No.

[He had accepted what was in his heart. But he didn't belong to it. There was a difference.]

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[marsfireignite]

Good.

[Warmly.]

That's the way it should be.