Who ⬤ Emily and open! What ⬤ Monthly catchall - clinic work, music club, etc. When ⬤ Over May. Where ⬤ Across the city. Content Warnings ⬤ TBA if needed.
I'm just me... But I'm glad that just being me is enough to earn that kind of praise, all the same.
[ Musashi did let herself blush, lifting the hand she held to her lips for yet another kiss, gentle in the touch, warming over with her breath. She was willing to just stay there and dote on Emily for as long as she needed. ]
Really, you're the one that got my heart beating first. That first song...
Me? When you stepped in with your skills first? I don't know what you thought of it at the time, but I still get chills to think on it.
[it had been an enormous help. and more than that, she had observed what had happened - even if it was beyond her to truly understand the swordsmanship, there was something else that she really could understand out of it. and talking like this, it helps calm her down more and more.]
...I should explain, though, in case this happens again. Why I got so afraid back there.
[ Musashi shifted, wrapping herself even more around Emily and just cradling the woman against her, enveloping her in such a way to both figuratively and literally shield her from what was out there, what haunted her... at least what she could. ]
[it helps a lot, actually, and Musashi will feel how she breathes in deep, how a little more of the tension that had struck her body has left. still on guard, but not struck with terror. it's the best that can happen for now.]
...Where I came from, before this city, it was quite common for strange happenings to take place. So widespread they were inescapable, because everything there was unstable, and very akin to curses. Past and present mixing, where you were liable to change right under your feet, being driven out of your own mind into senseless violence, blood raining from the sky...all we wished to do was survive. Even as the world was falling apart around us.
I suppose for a moment, I thought that it had come here. That this place was also at risk, and that was just the first sign.
[ So like what Izo had mentioned... A dying world, collapsing in on itself, dragging anyone within it into its death wails...
It sounded like, and felt like, what she'd been told of Lost Belts. She was reminded of that frozen world she found Ritsuka within, the Permafrost Empire...
Musashi gently shook her head. ]
This place... it seems really stable. The ground beneath my feet feels firm. The person I'm holding in my arms feels real... I have faith in my senses to know that none of this will go away when I wake up tomorrow...
[ Musashi couldn't pretend she'd never been afraid, of course. Those trials set up to her by the Caster of Limbo still hung in her mind, embedded in the dark of her vision, and would probably never truly go away. That terror never left someone... which just made it that much more important to her to be there for Emily in that moment, to be strong for her... ]
You've got a lot of people here that care a whole lot about you, Emily. That much isn't going to change. Even if I'm not right here, physically with you, I know you'll remember my voice, and my words, if you ever need it...
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[ Musashi did let herself blush, lifting the hand she held to her lips for yet another kiss, gentle in the touch, warming over with her breath. She was willing to just stay there and dote on Emily for as long as she needed. ]
Really, you're the one that got my heart beating first. That first song...
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[it had been an enormous help. and more than that, she had observed what had happened - even if it was beyond her to truly understand the swordsmanship, there was something else that she really could understand out of it. and talking like this, it helps calm her down more and more.]
...I should explain, though, in case this happens again. Why I got so afraid back there.
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[ Musashi shifted, wrapping herself even more around Emily and just cradling the woman against her, enveloping her in such a way to both figuratively and literally shield her from what was out there, what haunted her... at least what she could. ]
But if it helps, I'm listening...
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...Where I came from, before this city, it was quite common for strange happenings to take place. So widespread they were inescapable, because everything there was unstable, and very akin to curses. Past and present mixing, where you were liable to change right under your feet, being driven out of your own mind into senseless violence, blood raining from the sky...all we wished to do was survive. Even as the world was falling apart around us.
I suppose for a moment, I thought that it had come here. That this place was also at risk, and that was just the first sign.
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It sounded like, and felt like, what she'd been told of Lost Belts. She was reminded of that frozen world she found Ritsuka within, the Permafrost Empire...
Musashi gently shook her head. ]
This place... it seems really stable. The ground beneath my feet feels firm. The person I'm holding in my arms feels real... I have faith in my senses to know that none of this will go away when I wake up tomorrow...
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[fear doesn't listen to reason, or logic. fear just tells her to run, spikes itself up and resonates between two souls.
just keep breathing.]
I'm just...glad you're here for me. Thank you, Musashi...
[to hold her, and remind her that the earth is steady.]
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You've got a lot of people here that care a whole lot about you, Emily. That much isn't going to change. Even if I'm not right here, physically with you, I know you'll remember my voice, and my words, if you ever need it...
Let that be your sword, if you ever need it.