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“It’s down the hall and to the left. Should be at the end of the corridor.” Tewi gives you a knowing look. “Though, you’re heading elsewhere, aren’t you?”
“What? Who, me?” you say, careful to keep your voice hushed. Don’t want to wake the cute bunny pile. You inch out of all the napping rabbits’ grasps. “Naaaaaw. I’d never. I ain’t one to lie, y’know. I just really need to go. Badly.”
“Then I guess I believe you. Just don’t disappear again, alright?”
“I’ll try.”
Ha. Tewi thinks that you’ll really disappear like that again? Just because you feel like it? Absolutely preposterous. Impossible, even! No way you’d do something like that.
...She knows you too well. But whatever. That won’t stop you from trying. Once you finish your business in the washroom, you head out the nearest window and slip away into the night. Of course, you have no idea where the heck you are and it’s really dark and now you’re suddenly lost, but no big deal. You’ll find your way. You always do, even if it takes a while.
You make it past the mansion, but Tewi’s already outside at the entrance waiting, hands crossed at the chest and foot tapping away arrhythmically.
“Hi,” you say.
“Yeaaaaah, I knew it. At this point, I can’t even say that I didn’t expect this to happen. Trying to sneak away again?”
“I wasn’t aware gods have curfew. Besides, I
did have to go to the bathroom, thanks.”
“Gods shouldn’t need to use the bathroom,” says Tewi.
“Touché.”
“So...” Tewi scrunches her face up into a frown, and a serious one at that. She twirls her tacky carrot pendant by its cord, letting its string coil around her finger. It’s a rare sight to see the one and only Tewi Inaba as sober as this. You’ve half a mind to call her face silly but now isn’t the best time.
“So?”
“Are you going to come back after you do… whatever you’re doing?”
“Sure. I’m not going to hi-and-bye again after we just reunited. In fact, you can come with. It won’t take too long.”
“Okay, but where are we going?”
“There’s this plain at the base of the mountains. It’s got a nice view and everything. Fantastic real estate, I tell you.”
“And why do you want to go there
now, in the middle of the night?”
“Why, to pay my respects of course.”
“To what?” she asks. “To
whom?”
You remain silent.
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All things considered, you didn’t think that you’d be back at her resting place again. But here you are, watching the night sky on a grassy hill, thinking about memories past. Funny, you say that you barely care about her now but you return again—as you always do.
Tewi sits at the top of the hill, leaning her head up so that she faces the stars. “A penny for your thoughts?”
“What’s the point of raunchy undergarments if their purpose is to be discarded to the floor shortly after being seen? It goes completely against my belief of aesthetics. I guess people could leave it on but that’d be more in-the-way than if you had—”
“Forget I even asked,” sighs Tewi. But rather than returning to her star-gazing, she scoots closer to your side and starts rubbing her arms.
“Itchy?” you say.
“Don’t you think it’s kinda cold right now?”
[ ] “Actually, it’s only about nineteen degrees Celcius.”
[ ] “Cool.”
[ ] “Should’ve brought a jacket.”
[ ] “Are you sure? It’s actually kinda hot. Like, I feel-like-a-towering-inferno-is-seconds-away-from-hitting-me hot.”
[ ] Offer her your robe. The one still somewhat stained with your blood.
