Feeling a lil nostalgic
Scout
11-30-2023, 12:13 PM
He pushed her away and she wilted, her whole posture gained a sense of weariness that hadn't quite been there before. Or that at least she'd been able to hide it with all the other emotions shoved on top, a stack that was starting to sway beneath the strain of its own weight. Hanako could understand why he didn't want to go back, in a way her wanderings had been a way of delaying the inevitable, had used the flood as a chance to slip away and hope no one had noticed. But they had- or at least her boy did. It was the cowards way out, but that was very on brand for her, wasn't it? If someone wasn't striving to act on her behalf then her own efforts were half-assed at best.
"I don't want to go back either," she suspected there hadn't been a place for her there for quite some time. Self-imposed for the most part, but there was a shred of rational to her feelings. It was a new Armada with new faces and voices, ones she couldn't say she cared much for. "It was- at first it was about that. I liked that you were a prince and being in your favour made me feel important too." She didn't look at him as she spoke, her gaze on the hanging curtains of willow leaves, as if she expected their past selves to stride through side by side. "But the more I knew you the less that stuff mattered. I mean- I liked the gifts and the prestige of your name, but I liked it because they were things you gave to me."
She wished he'd move closer, that he didn't stay so far away. It wasn't the end, Hanako refused to let it be such.
"Is it stupid I missed the way you used to make this face, like you wanted to smile but you were too seriously and manly. So you'd sort of just grimace through it, like you licked something that tasted bad." She said, before falling quiet for a moment, thoughtful. "I don't know much about stories, but isn't everyone always sort of miserable round the middle? Makes for good tension, or something like that."
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