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the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern(Rafayel is slowly beginning to see his bodyguard everywhere. Everyone else seems to see her, too, through his art.)
((a.k.a 1192 words of rafayel adoring you secretly))
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04 Feb 2025
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Graduation ends, college begins, and Hajime lives through a kaleidoscope of moments with Oikawa. They're still teammates, friends, and now roommates, even as the world changes and old memories transform into something else, new and confusing and breathtaking.
Tooru, his heart whispers.
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03 Feb 2025
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“Is that what you really think?” There’s less bite to her words than what she would’ve wanted but Rin suddenly feels the anger bleed out of her all at once like an open wound. “That I’m not afraid every time I’m out there?”
Flying was my escape, she wants to say but doesn’t. That had sounded like what you’d tell someone when you let them in, so she settles for something else. “Flying’s the only time I don’t think about dying.”
“Funny,” he says, and maybe it really isn’t that funny at all because there’s gravity in his voice and in the space between them; she feels the force that must've kept them in orbit the same way tides have always turned towards the moon. Rin takes a chance when she reaches out and places her hand at the crook of his neck, spreading her palm against the hollow of his throat. Nezha swallows and Rin trails her fingers up until she reaches his lips.
“I think about it all the time,” he confesses. His voice is low, the sound muffled in the palm of her hand where it cups his jaw. “And then,” Nezha continues, mouthing the words against her skin, “I think about you.”
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Rin learns that there’s more to flying than fighting.
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26 Dec 2024
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In the end, he is only one more thing she can't have.
Backless dresses, cutting her hair short, one more candy, spending more time with Aether. Seeing her parents more than twenty weeks in a year. The list goes on and on and on. A soulmate is little more than a faceless figure in a page, even when she can put a name to his face. He shines like the sun, and she can still hear his laugh in bright corners and at the edges of dusty shelves. But in the face of everything else, what does it matter, really?
House Caelum dictates its own path.
Lumine stumbles a little and takes the long way around.
But she gets there, in the end.
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15 Nov 2024
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“Then I’ll see you later?” Lumine says, undeterred by his silence.
“Hm.”
She laughs at his reticence. “That’s not much of an answer.”
Xiao considers her offer. Balances duty against desire, karma against hope…. But something must be too heavy, because he relents to her will. “You need only call my name.”
It is not a promise, nor is it an agreement. But it is something and it is enough, for Lumine smiles in response.
The five times that Xiao does not touch Lumine, and the one time he does.
Alternatively: The five times that Lumine waits, and the one time she does not.
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13 Nov 2024