It's hard when you're fifteen, and trying to date, but you're both separately undertaking very large responsibilities in two totally different worlds. Jin Ling sets off to his accomplishments in his own world, and Anya does hers - admittedly a bit less dangerously. Each night that she can spare a moment, she speaks with him through the necklaces, staring out her window to the stars over Tokyo and wishing only that it was easier to pretend that they shared a sky. It's not enough, but it works for some time.
At least until everything has died down enough that she can spare a moment to visit, and he's in a better situation to welcome her. She takes NHS upon his offer first, visiting him so that she can help be better acclimated to the period - and perhaps she can't deny that she wanted to visit Beau as well. Everything is at least converging so their visits can overlap and the time she's spent waiting for Jin Ling isn't long -
Yet that won't change that she's antsy, playing with the long cloths of the dress she was given, letting the fabrics twine around her fingers again and again until she finally brings her hand up to her necklace, where the magical pendant sits next to the bell he'd given her. She's || this close to just wandering out of the compound on her own to greet him.]
reunion.
It's hard when you're fifteen, and trying to date, but you're both separately undertaking very large responsibilities in two totally different worlds. Jin Ling sets off to his accomplishments in his own world, and Anya does hers - admittedly a bit less dangerously. Each night that she can spare a moment, she speaks with him through the necklaces, staring out her window to the stars over Tokyo and wishing only that it was easier to pretend that they shared a sky. It's not enough, but it works for some time.
At least until everything has died down enough that she can spare a moment to visit, and he's in a better situation to welcome her. She takes NHS upon his offer first, visiting him so that she can help be better acclimated to the period - and perhaps she can't deny that she wanted to visit Beau as well. Everything is at least converging so their visits can overlap and the time she's spent waiting for Jin Ling isn't long -
Yet that won't change that she's antsy, playing with the long cloths of the dress she was given, letting the fabrics twine around her fingers again and again until she finally brings her hand up to her necklace, where the magical pendant sits next to the bell he'd given her. She's || this close to just wandering out of the compound on her own to greet him.]
Почти? Are you almost here?
[She's patient, she swears.
It's just - oh, to be so close and yet so far.]