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[lingeringwill]

Terra Mason


It's Terra. You can leave me a message. Actually, maybe you should just pop in and say hi, because I don't really check my messages that often. Oops. Sorry.

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[complementing]

[She glances over her shoulder at him, smiling wryly.]

I'll try not to. I was really homesick while I was gone. I missed the city so much it ached to have to go back to the mountains and finish the mission. So this month, I want to spend a ton of time with all my friends and family, and make up for being gone.

[A breeze kicks up, rocking the branches and pulling soft pink petals loose from their flowers. Not that many, because there are too many unopened blooms, but just enough to look pretty and poignant at the right moment.]

[lingeringwill]

Well, if you were home sick, then I was...Minako-sick.

[A pause...]

Oh, I...got you something, actually.

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[Minako-sick...it's the first time since December that he's mentioned anything resembling his lingering affections, and she's not quite sure how to respond. Luckily he doesn't dwell on it, and the natural warmth of their friendship is enough to overcome any hint of awkwardness she feels, a pleased smile blooming on her face.]

Did you?

[Another small shower of petals falls over them, and after a moment

she realizes it's so much more sunny today, the sky a perfect blue and the heady scent of sakura in the air. Everything is warm around her, pressing in on her senses. Gently. Slowly. Until she can't tell where it's coming from anymore, surrounded by its weight. It makes individual thoughts difficult. They rise and fall, never breaking the surface, only there for a moment before the warmth overcomes it and they drown again.

But Minako, ever the fighter, tries anyways.

Aigis. Graduation Day. A promise made, and a promise kept. Barely holding on. On top of a roof. Tartarus? No, Gekkoukan. With Aigis. Graduation Day. Each thought takes a breath. The loop and the mantra it becomes is the only way she knows when to breathe. Then breathing gets harder, and she can't hold on anymore. She's waited for them as long as she can.

She lets herself drown. Closes her eyes to feel the slowing beat of her own heart. She feels the distant touch of Aigis' fingers on her cheek, and knows that Aigis knows that it's skin warmed by the sun, instead of her own blood.

It was a good life.

Minako gasps out, blindly reaching out to Terra and desperately drawing in air until her lungs are bursting with it to make up for the lack she'd just experienced.]

Oh my god-- oh my god--