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[omochikaeri]

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51.23.01.48 ♦ Mahiru Koizumi (shashinka)

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[photonement]

Not for a nymph.

[Mahiru has never actually seen a nymph up close, only Kieren's drawings. She's guessing. Rena is safe - her teeth are still soft, her smile is wider than ever - and her scratches are healing again... that's what matters.

She tries to stand up, ready to be closer again, but her body has other ideas and she's barely on both feet before she reaches behind her with one hand to brace with the back of the bench ]

[omochikaeri]

[Nymph...she had been too distressed to look up the label for her specific subset of changes. All she knew was that she felt both wrong and incomplete at the same time.

But all that is relegated to the back of her mind when Mahiru falters. Her hesitance is lost and in an instant Rena is at her side, one hand tenderly clasped around an arm for support.]

Do you want to talk more inside? Rena's room isn't far...

[And there are plenty of soft things for her to lie on if Mahiru is feeling overwhelmed.]

[photonement]

[There she is. Mahiru hasn't realized what an effective anchor Rena will continue to be. Her skin may be green; at least not cold or unsteady like a plant swaying in the wind. Ferns or not, Rena is obviously a person, and Mahiru needs this; she clings with her own arm, more readily than in the mall.

How pathetic, that even the implied short distance is a relief to Mahiru, but she nods, looking into her eyes.]

Sure, I'm - sorry I didn't say yes right away...