Shadow Event Log

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▼ A Feast of Shadows

 

Who: Anyone
Where: All over the city
When: December 16-20
Summary: The Shadow Event has begun! Follow the link for the event summary and post your threads here if you want. You're still free to make network posts of your own if you'd rather do that, though!
Warnings: Characters' darkest and most shameful secrets within, along with plenty of combat. Please mark any threads that will contain triggering content appropriately, since some characters have darker secrets than others.
Music: IT'S JUST AS BILLY JOEL WARNED

Comments

[otakuro]

A slight, bleak smile now.

You... don't have to do that if you don't want to. Not after...

The voice trails off, but it's clear that the same thought was on his mind.

[all_wound_up]

N-no...!

[Nano blushes despite herself, lifting her hands and shaking her head.]

I didn't mean...

[otakuro]

Aha...

[The chuckle is humorless, though, and the boy continues to avert his gaze.]

I've known... that I didn't treat you very fairly. And I've tried to just ignore it. You've known, too... haven't you?

[all_wound_up]

No, it was my fault! I shouldn't have put you on the spot like that.

[otakuro]

Heh... What I've been looking for all this time is presented to me... and I can't even accept it.

How can you stand to still talk to me...?

[all_wound_up]

Because you're still my friend, no matter what happened back then.

[otakuro]

[There is a pause at that response.]

I'm... still your friend, huh? Do you really think that? If it's just... that you think I might change my mind...

I don't deserve to be your friend...

[all_wound_up]

That's not true! That's not true at all!

[Nano frowns, glancing to the ground and looking guilty.]

I mean... I did hope for a little while that you'd change your mind...

[But then she whips her head back up to look straight back at the Shadow.]

But that doesn't mean I don't still want to be your friend anyway! It doesn't matter to me if you don't look at me like that... you were always so kind to me, Atsuro-san. You'll always be special to me.

[otakuro]

[For a moment, the boy is frozen in place, as if he can't quite believe what's coming out of Nano's mouth. Then... a nod.]

If... If you can really believe in that, then... You're better than I am, Nano.

You'll really stay with me...?

[all_wound_up]

Of course I will! You're a good person, Atsuro-san. You shouldn't doubt yourself.

[otakuro]

[...And it seems this is enough to pacify him for the time being as a genuine smile seems to cross his face.]

Thank you, Nano. I... I don't deserve it, but... it means a lot to me that you would still think that.

I hope... we can always be friends.

[all_wound_up]

I hope so too.

[It's too bad she's so naive and imperceptive, or she'd have noticed something wrong when she saw those eyes. But it's easy for Nano to get caught up in the moment, especially with people she cares about. For the moment, she's just content that she could help.]