[053] Home.

[buntails]

[The video is no more chilling than many others. The fog and mist curls around so many graves here, and the names will be familiar to many in Adstringendum. There are even sailor senshi never heard of here: Star Healer, Star Fighter, Star Maker. Senshi throughout the galaxy, dead in the Sailor Wars

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[golden_hawke]

-=Since he knows nothing of these stones, he's still baffled as to why they're making everyone so upset.=-

My sorrow that your friend went home. What is wrong, Child?

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[buntails]

[She actually gets it right away: After all, he was the one who started the tree. And she certainly knows their worlds are very, very different in their customs by now.]

Hawke... [She tries a smile. It doesn't work well.] You know how we started the tree, to remember our friends who left?

This is like that. These are to remember our friends, as if our friends were dead. [And sometimes it's true.] It's...

I miss them anyway. [She doesn't need more reasons to.]

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[golden_hawke]

-=There's a slow nod.=-

Do you wish company?

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[buntails]

[She doesn't answer for a long time. But then the coordinates come.

X,Y]

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[capuletnomore]

Usagi, I am so sorry....

[She hates to see the other woman cry so. Usagi is so strong, and the Animus seem determined to break her.]

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[buntails]

[It takes a moment to compose herself. She promised herself she'd be strong.]

It's alright. These are... And Minako-chan is...

[It's like she's forgotten how the sentences should end. She just can't say it anymore: that the tombs are only reminders and not present reality, that Minako is better off home.]

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[capuletnomore]

[She smiles a bit ruefully at that. She thinks knows what Usagi is trying to say.]

That does not make the pain any less real.

Would you like to come by and have some tea and snacks with me? I was considering baking some of the rare fruit known as apple for a snack.

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[buntails]

I don't think I feel like it right now. [This is not right. She should be halfway to Juliet's door and bouncing like crazy.]

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[angle_on_it]

I'm really sorry.

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[buntails]

[The reply takes time, because she just can't form the words about it being alright, about Minako being safe, about the tombs being reminders but not real.]

Are you alright?

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[angle_on_it]

[He doesn't have a good answer, so he chooses to pass on answering directly.]

Worried about you. Are you okay?

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[buntails]

[She has no answer. All her mind keeps thinking is that she finally wants to give up.]

I'm kind of tired.

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[grandtheftbody]

You've lost quite a few friends from this place, haven't you?

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[buntails]

[She digs her fingers in tighter as she keeps her arms wrapped around herself. She doesn't trust her voice to answer, and only nods.

So many. She can name every one of them.]

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[grandtheftbody]

But not all of them. You aren't completely alone. And of course, someday you might return to them.

[Is Mukuro actually being halfway comforting?]

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[buntails]

Mm. I know. [She says it almost like she's trying to give the right answer in school. She does believe it; but right now, it's hard]

I'll see them again. We're together in our hearts, all this time.

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[alwaysreturned]

[Ron hates emotions. He especially hates it lately-- but he likes Usagi. And his protectiveness when it comes to girls is strong; first Ginny then Hermione, especially the latter. So when he sees this he abandons his own patrol and makes his way to the area where he knows she's about in the Southern District.]

[He's quiet when he approaches, but after a few moments of silence he speaks.]

You can't let them get to you. What's it you told me earlier?

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[buntails]

[She takes a long, shaky breath. He's right, and she knows he's right. But... Looking at all of these... and knowing Minako really, truly, isn't here anymore... She takes every loss so hard, and there've been so many over the year and more she's been trapped here.]

I... just want to be able to see everyone again.

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[alwaysreturned]

[He jerks his head in a nod he realizes she can't see. Taking another step closer, although not quite reaching for her yet.]

Who's saying you won't? They might not be here now, but they may one day. Or you'll go home. There's always something here, innit there?

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[buntails]

[It helps. His words help reach the part of her that knows this, that can never truly give up hope.

But how many times is she supposed to bear losing them?]

I know. I know some day this will change. But right now I'm sad.