| The Thirtieth Aura • Text | Offline |

[reflectivedawn]

[ - Back Dated To Dawn | Partially Filtered To Sango - ]

[Four o'clock in the morning probably wasn't the best time to be sending a text message, but to one resident of Adstringendum, it really doesn't matter. He had much more important things to worry about.]

I have a surprise for you. Meet me on the roof of the safe house at dawn.

[Dawn. His

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[magicxmarker]

Hey lover boy, you have anything to do with the flowers all around our house?

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[reflectivedawn]

[Go fuck off, Hanna.]

Why are you even awake?

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[magicxmarker]

[He does take walks sometimes dude. In the morning, yanno. It reminds him of a certain someone, and according to videos and recorded conversations, something they did ever so often.]

Why shouldn't I be?

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[reflectivedawn]

Because it's four in the morning.

[Why you trying to ruin this for him?]

[offline] brb trying to un-melt 1/2

[coraltaijiya]

[To say the least, Sango wasn't expecting that text. While she isn't the biggest reader (being a woman in Feudal Japan tends to do that) the words are thankfully simple enough to understand on her own, without having to consult Kagome like she had to with Jean Louis' proposal a few days ago. That had given her a headache.]

[But 4am? Goodness, he's lucky Kirara nudged her awake at seeing the notification on the PCD. The bleariness and grogginess, however, does not at all dull the shiver that runs down her spine or the quickening pace of her heart. In a moment she's wide awake--]

[And within a few minutes she slips out of the house silently, so it's not long before she's there.]

[At the sight of the lily petals, she freezes. And the only thought that runs through her head is how did he know? She's never told anyone about this--the only other person who knows (or used to know) that these, of all things, are her absolute favorite object in the world, is Kohaku. And even now--Kohaku isn't even supposed to remember.]

[...well... She

[offline-->voice] asdkfhsflasd the tl;dr I can't

[coraltaijiya]

[The answer is on her lips before she even has time to consider what it should be. She doesn't know if what it is and what it should be are different or the same anymore, and the funny thing is that she doesn't... particularly care. She's always been reckless when it comes to the people she cares about--reckless, stupid, ruled by emotion.]

[But she runs over everything in her mind one last time, just to make sure. Just to make sure that he knows everything he needs to know, that she does, that Raven's words of wisdom resound the same way that they did a week ago, two weeks ago.]

[And to her surprise, everything falls into place. Not exactly--there are puzzle pieces that don't match up quite right, problems yet to solve, obstacles to overcome. But she can see the picture. She can see it, like she's never been able to see the constantly-shifting painting of her and the monk.]

[She can see it, and it is beautiful. Like the lilies: not perfect, not pristine. But beautiful, all the same.]

[So about a half an hour after sunrise, Riku

[offline-->voice] asdfghjkl We are the queens of TL;DR

[reflectivedawn]

[He had been waiting. Patiently at first, but before long he was standing, peering out the window of the study, forcing himself to leave his PCD on the small table next to the large, comfortable chair he had been resting it. Bright green eyes watched and waited, although for what he wasn't sure anymore. To watch her leave, to watch her walk away from him and break his heart more painfully than Sora ever did. To have her find him, to have her come and give him her answer in person. Or to have her contact him, to call him over the PCD and tell him her answer there.

But when the call finally came through, he was hardly expecting the demand that came through with it. A smile crossed his lips, one he couldn't help, foot steps light as he moved across the carpet, picking up the PCD to answer her back, voice calm and easy.]

In the study. You really didn't think I'd go through all that work and then just leave, did you?

[Because nothing could have made him leave at that point. He was set to camp out for the week is he had to. However

[offline] Yes. We are. And I love it. B)

[coraltaijiya]

[There is no answer from the PCD.]

[Instead, there is the quiet click of the door a few minutes later as it shuts behind Sango. She's facing it, so the only thing Riku can see is her newly-acquired outfit of patched-up jeans and a T-shirt, plus the long ponytail that swishes to her hips--afforded an extra inch or two of growth from her five months (so long already?) in Adstringendum.]

[When she finally turns, she has the silver pendant looped around one hand and the bouquet tucked under the other arm.]

[And she doesn't--know how to start. So for a moment she just--stands there, staring at him, looking almost like a deer in the headlights. A happy(?) deer in the headlights.]

[twotimingmutt]

[WTFing in progress. Who throws flowers all over the place?]

[reflectivedawn]

[Riku does, Inuyasha. And you better get used to it.]

[twotimingmutt]

[Well ok, as long as none of them smell like ass. Otherwise he's going and kicking yours.]

[reflectivedawn]

[Why would they? None of them have been within a five foot radius of you.]