Dias and Chisato are not my creations, they're Tri Ace's, blah blah blah...

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It had been a year since the group had returned to the planet of Expel, to pick up their lives once again. Chisato Madison managed to land herself a job in prestigious Lacour, reporting for the king. She was still learning how to adjust her style to dazzle her new truth-seeking audience, and had taken up writing books again in her spare time. On the way to get a few published, one was dropped. However, the hand of a tall, enigmatic man saved it from the dust. A paper was nestled just inside the cover, and he plucked it neatly free for his inspection. He schooled his face to be disinterested, though grazing past the first few lines of the untitled poem would cause that stoic expression to change. Dias had just read...the Truth.

I long to run my fingers through it

Your azure mane, tumbling over your

Shoulders like a waterfall

I'd let you play with my scruffy strands

Of flame, if you'd only reach

They don't burn

Opposites we may be, but you fail to

See the bond between us

Oh, if I could rewrite the past, dear heart,

I would

I report; I don't conjure up fantasies

Your cold eyes realize so much, but you

Are still blind

Though on that tragic day you lost those

Close to you, by grace of a miracle you

Were spared

It seems like a curse, I know

Live each day like a gift

For Cecile

You must be strong.