Re: CHANCEL BAD END=DEAD END

[personal profile] ninuanni 2021-01-29 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
It's simple, relaxing work, especially with the recipe right there for you to follow.

You're checking the rice when you feel something delicate brush against your wrist, and with it split second of something like longing

...Oh. It's another wild rose, just barely opening on its thorny branch. It's not doing anything beyond, well, being there (and seemingly full of some sort of emotion?), but it certainly did grow ridiculously fast while you were cooking.
widenessofthesea: (broken on wires)

Re: CHANCEL BAD END=DEAD END

[personal profile] widenessofthesea 2021-01-29 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ she looks at the flower— ]

...do you want some?

I mean, you're welcome to try, I can't eat it.

Re: CHANCEL BAD END=DEAD END

[personal profile] ninuanni 2021-01-29 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
It's a flower.


—Which is to say: it just bobs in the air a bit.
As you study it, though, you start to feel something:
You are different—something that has never fit in. But has anyone here in this new Familia really fit in? You wouldn't be Familia BAD END if you had.

So why is that now you feel.... longing?

There's still that distance between you and them, after all—and for the first time, you have reason to wonder at what you have been missing…
widenessofthesea: (in their minds)

Re: CHANCEL BAD END=DEAD END

[personal profile] widenessofthesea 2021-01-29 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ she thinks back to that first conversation they had— ]

It'd be a little... difficult, to be someone who's never been a person at all, wouldn't it.

Re: CHANCEL BAD END=DEAD END

[personal profile] ninuanni 2021-01-29 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
As you consider the flowers, you realize you can recognize them more fully: Wild Rose, Key of Something Different.

Caring about "difference" at all, though... that's the sort of thing you can only feel if your difference matters; if it is part of the story of you finding your place in the world.