[So that's a yes. He closes his eyes a moment, then opens them again, meeting her gaze in the cozy dark beneath her bed, the space that's been his all this time.]
My sister's group, B-Komachi. I keep hearing their songs. ...My mother, Ai, belonged to that group, too, before Ruby revived it. Sometimes I hear her singing instead.
I know it could get worse. [It could get worse so, so easily. Bright and fun pop songs aren't all he's heard in those girls' voices, not all his mind could whip up as a torment. Ai's last words echo in his nightmares even without the house's interference.
He moves his hand, just barely bumping hers with the side of his pinky.]
But I wanted to hear them, anyway. Their big concert at the dome... I didn't get to go.
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[So that's a yes. He closes his eyes a moment, then opens them again, meeting her gaze in the cozy dark beneath her bed, the space that's been his all this time.]
My sister's group, B-Komachi. I keep hearing their songs. ...My mother, Ai, belonged to that group, too, before Ruby revived it. Sometimes I hear her singing instead.
I know it could get worse. [It could get worse so, so easily. Bright and fun pop songs aren't all he's heard in those girls' voices, not all his mind could whip up as a torment. Ai's last words echo in his nightmares even without the house's interference.
He moves his hand, just barely bumping hers with the side of his pinky.]
But I wanted to hear them, anyway. Their big concert at the dome... I didn't get to go.