bump in the night

*Kiriko* · 11-17-2023, 07:03 AM

She has to tell him. He has every right to know. Even if it's just... so she isn't alone with the knowledge anymore. Letting a piece of herself slip and fall right into his hands was scary, but Hattori hadn't done her wrong yet. He'd been kind to her. She is thoughtful, still, as she walks beside him through the Maze. Walking with him on patrol, it would do well to ease her paranoid mind. There was nothing out here, there was no reason for her to be on edge.

She walks by his side in silence for a while, taking in the quiet of the evening. He said he'd speak his mind but... why was she so nervous? Why was she so anxious? Kiriko did eventually find her words, finding them rolling off her tongue carefully. "I'm afraid that they're after me," she speaks finally, voice soft. Quiet. Her tone is confidential, and it's only once they're far enough from any dens and prying ears that she finally lets the words slip.

"Hattori... the fallen king is my father. All legitimate relations were wiped out during the siege. From what we could tell, my brother and I were the only bastards to make it out alive." The words are a quiet confession, and they weigh heavily as Kiriko speaks. Though there was no love lost on her father, her mother... she'd done everything she could. Grief colored her words, no matter how hard she tried to conceal it. It's a quiet confession, one that she hasn't known how to make until now. Well, here she went, laying her cards on the table for him.

"Speech"

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