001 [video] aboard the City Express car #12

[lipstickninja]

[ A boygirl rests her head on her arms, sleeping. A jolt from the train wakes her and she rubs her eyes in a daze. ]

Subaru... are we there ye--?

[ She furrows her brows in confusion for a moment before checking her own pulse. No surprises there. Exhales. She turns to the window to watch the world zoom past, smiling slightly to herself. ]This

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[slighted_stains]

[it's not that he's staring at her from the compartment door, biting into the back of his right hand to keep from sobbing, or shouting; it's that he has been for long minutes, too afraid not to make noise and wake her - but to produce it and find that she sleeps on, dead to the world, and to him. ]

We're...

[it doesn't occur to him to remove the palm]

Not... there yet.

[lipstickninja]

Oh, hello!

[ She smiles brightly at him, waving slightly. So much for being asleep just a moment before, Hokuto speaks at a clip, spouting a thousand words per minute. ]

I almost didn't notice you there. You weren't staring at a sleeping girl, were you? Didn't your mother tell you not to~?

But never mind that~ are you--

[ a flicker of recognition crosses her eyes. But she shakes her head and shrugs it off. ]

For a moment there you reminded me of someone.

[slighted_stains]

[stunned, really. Maybe he'd cry, if even that didn't take too much thinking.]

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

[rubs his eyes frantically, almost trying to dismiss the vision. Wake himself up. Something. Anything.]

Sorry. For troubling you. I'm so very sorry. I'm so -

[rambling. He'll scare her. He'll scare her, then it's all over.]

May I take the seat beside you?

[lipstickninja]

[ Her smile wanes as she watches him intently. He seemed like a chimera of the two most important people in her life. What is this? ]

Stop apologizing.

[ Patting the space beside her, she smiles hesitantly. He was a grown man but somehow she was scared of breaking him. ]

Come keep me company.

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[metousiosis]

[ What. ]

[metousiosis]

[ How... unexpected, in a way. ]

[metousiosis]

[ Silly little city, bringing others back from the dead. ]

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[metousiosis]

I'm afraid that there is no light to head towards....

[eiremagic]

...train?

[lipstickninja]

It seems like it! But the view isn't so good from my compartment.

[eiremagic]

The subway?

[lipstickninja]

Not quite. It's all misty and static-y from my window.

I'm Hokuto, by the way.

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[whoistheother]

[This comment isn't here, but someone is stalking...]

[lipstickninja]

[ Ohoho~ she'll be making house calls soon though~ with cookies! :3 ]