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[▒ ݁˖ .आभा ┈─ @Infrnality]

❍·˚.
⠀⠀⠀۰۫ .
⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ݁ ˖⠀ ݁⠀ 𑁍͎⠀⠀. . ꒰ 𝘝𝘢𝘫𝘳𝘢𝘱ā𝘯𝘪 ꒱
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⠀ ⠀ &&. ° 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐈𝐀◞ - आभा⤦
⠀⠀⠀ i 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 you, i walked with you ͎·˚
⠀⠀⠀ once upon a 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒓 dream.⠀

[▒ ݁˖ .आभा ┈─ @Infrnality]

@SanctionedExile slept. The innkeeper's expression did little to dispel the mystery—if anything, the woman's look of dry suspicion practically narrated itself.

"?"

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@SanctionedExile The innkeeper was holding out a shirt. *His* shirt—clean, pressed, folded with an air of pointed ceremony. Her brow rose in slow question, eyes flicking from the garment to him and back again, the unspoken math assembling itself: he'd had it washed. Here. Overnight. While she —

[▒ ݁˖ .आभा ┈─ @Infrnality]

@SanctionedExile "..Alright. Ready to head out when you are."

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@SanctionedExile then stepped into her sandals and worked the straps tight, and finally dragged her fingers through her sleep-wrecked hair, taming the worst of the white tangle into something merely windswept.

She looked over at him, dressed and ready, and tipped her head toward the door.

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@offtheglxss She had been sitting cross-legged, sharpening a piece of wood with her hand knife. The weight at her back made the beastkin pause, head tilting to see who it was.

"Good morning, Kaoru."

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@SanctionedExile making good on the answer she'd left waiting all this time.

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@SanctionedExile tipped her face up until she found him from below—looking out from under his chin, one amber eye catching his in the dim room.

"...I'm hungry," she said, the confession of a woman whose own body had ended the standoff for her. Her fingers tightened around his once, —