[All he can do is tilt his head into her touch, but that's... that's all he has to do. Her fingers follow the line of his jaw, curiously brushing over the hair on his face, lingering over where the corner of his mouth curls upwards in his smile. It seemed like such an easy expression on his face, like the muscles there remember how to make that expression... and for a moment she almost envies him. She almost thinks there can't be something wrong in him, because at least he knows how to smile. At least he has reasons to smile.
With the bond fast and fresh between their shards, she even almost thinks that maybe he'd been sincere, when he called her a friend. She almost thinks that maybe they could be that, despite the fact that they might need to kill each other for the sake of their goals. But down here, in the dark with only a faint, soft glow...
Her half-smile almost makes it all the way to a full one.]
If you managed to figure it out, I suppose I would have to honor your efforts and try going to space.
[If she was indulging in a fantasy this grand, this impossible... why shouldn't it be one where she isn't completely terrified by the idea that the night sky was a huge, empty expanse of black and stars? She'd been raised believing that the stars were the lights of the heavenly field of gods, not a place that mortals might ever tread.
But what he said next... her smile falters. Her expression softens, turning inward, and she knows... She knows she shouldn't be indulging in this. She had sworn that she would be the most stalwart Meridian of them all to make up for the weaklings among them, that she would kill whoever she had to... but there is just enough Zenith energy left lurking in her hearts to whisper what if you lose? What if you lose this Oracle, and the next one, and the next... And if that happened, if there came a time when she had to face the possibility of never being able to return to her world where she belonged...
Her voice is quiet when she finds it again.]
... Will you save a place for me?
[If Meridian's cause was lost, if she only came to him in the final hour...]
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With the bond fast and fresh between their shards, she even almost thinks that maybe he'd been sincere, when he called her a friend. She almost thinks that maybe they could be that, despite the fact that they might need to kill each other for the sake of their goals. But down here, in the dark with only a faint, soft glow...
Her half-smile almost makes it all the way to a full one.]
If you managed to figure it out, I suppose I would have to honor your efforts and try going to space.
[If she was indulging in a fantasy this grand, this impossible... why shouldn't it be one where she isn't completely terrified by the idea that the night sky was a huge, empty expanse of black and stars? She'd been raised believing that the stars were the lights of the heavenly field of gods, not a place that mortals might ever tread.
But what he said next... her smile falters. Her expression softens, turning inward, and she knows... She knows she shouldn't be indulging in this. She had sworn that she would be the most stalwart Meridian of them all to make up for the weaklings among them, that she would kill whoever she had to... but there is just enough Zenith energy left lurking in her hearts to whisper what if you lose? What if you lose this Oracle, and the next one, and the next... And if that happened, if there came a time when she had to face the possibility of never being able to return to her world where she belonged...
Her voice is quiet when she finds it again.]
... Will you save a place for me?
[If Meridian's cause was lost, if she only came to him in the final hour...]