nightchild | does roxana know of my love for her....

does roxana know of my love for her....

im gonna find a funnier one

[ Oh, still cursed. She smiles all the same. ]

You need to rest.

[it takes him a second to find his usual composure, even when he does, it's muted.]

...I've been doing that pretty much the entire day. [normally it's easy for him to fall asleep.] What about you?

I'm fine.

[ She hasn't been cursed twice(?). ]

I don't think you're in the best state for anything we've been witness to these past few days.

[IT'S JUST THE ONE CURSE now im afraid...]

...I'm lucky to just be a witness. [even if the execution they went to felt like he'd participated in it] You weren't one of the ones who got taken to another place on Thursday, right?

Lucky is not how I would describe it, and no, I wasn't taken someplace even more unknown and harmed.

[ She's grateful for that. ]

Hm, now I was about to say that we're lucky again, but...

[...]

I guess nothing's stopping who or whatever took the others from taking us.

[so this is all just truly unfortunate...]

There no way to tell when and how or if it'll happen again. It is best to expect it will.

[ Even if that's just inviting the terrible things to happen. ]

[hm]

I've been pretty curious this whole time, but... Ana-chan, what kind of stuff do you do back home?

[he's too curious, Roxana seems both the most normal girl he's ever met and at the same time not. maybe it's because of her dignity, the way she carries herself... or maybe it's because he looked at Roxana's ic profile that gave him even more questions]

Doesn't a lady deserve her mystique?

[ She smiles. ]

I help my father with his plans.

[ Is that answer enough? ]

I think you have plenty of mystique to spare.

[he thinks about the very polite distance between them,]

Like right now. An answer like that will just make me even more curious, you know?