[Having her hand taken, she gets a little anxious at first, but-- This is Clarith. She would somehow forgive her, wouldn't she? But would things be the same-- maybe she really should have thought this through better.
At least that was the pattern of her racing thoughts until she looked up and their foreheads were touching. Oh gosh she was so close--]
...wh-what?
[She knows she didn't just hear... even if Clarith is smiling back at her like that she can't possibly mean... Fukawa had spent so much time living for an impossibility, so that she'd never be tempted by something real. A fantasy was as far as she'd ever really get. She'd accepted that. Or... so she thought.]
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At least that was the pattern of her racing thoughts until she looked up and their foreheads were touching. Oh gosh she was so close--]
...wh-what?
[She knows she didn't just hear... even if Clarith is smiling back at her like that she can't possibly mean... Fukawa had spent so much time living for an impossibility, so that she'd never be tempted by something real. A fantasy was as far as she'd ever really get. She'd accepted that. Or... so she thought.]
Y-you... r-really...?