[It sickens her. Makes her stomach flip and her head spin. Not the ritual itself, but the knowledge of how alike they are. It's a surface level view, merely a scratch on the outermost layer, but it's enough to make Tohsaka feel like she's looking at something akin to a cruel mirror.
Gamora does not attempt to flood her, or override her. She provides Rin with exactly what she said she would. So the young woman replies in turn. Peeling at the scab on her palm from earlier in the week when they could still venture out into the cities — kept fresh by the needs of the ritual. Tohsaka provides her own sap-like blood to Gamora's shard. A drop hits the jewel's surface, and with it ocean waves. Epipelagic in nature. As if this part of Rin gets just enough light to be seen.
An ocean of memories, and this is merely the bit such murky waters can allow a glimpse of. The pain of losing family members, the bitterness of a guardian who would raise someone maliciously, and the isolation that comes with walling yourself off so such things never cut into you again.
But that wave brings warmth. As the communion bleed from the ritual pulls back like the waning tide Gamora will be left with the vital warmth of Meridian. Bright, and comforting.]
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Gamora does not attempt to flood her, or override her. She provides Rin with exactly what she said she would. So the young woman replies in turn. Peeling at the scab on her palm from earlier in the week when they could still venture out into the cities — kept fresh by the needs of the ritual. Tohsaka provides her own sap-like blood to Gamora's shard. A drop hits the jewel's surface, and with it ocean waves. Epipelagic in nature. As if this part of Rin gets just enough light to be seen.
An ocean of memories, and this is merely the bit such murky waters can allow a glimpse of. The pain of losing family members, the bitterness of a guardian who would raise someone maliciously, and the isolation that comes with walling yourself off so such things never cut into you again.
But that wave brings warmth. As the communion bleed from the ritual pulls back like the waning tide Gamora will be left with the vital warmth of Meridian. Bright, and comforting.]
Did you get what you wanted?