Asphodel
by SMYGO4EVA
Sola-Ui stood at the edge of the room, regarding the woman on her bed. All the people she had known would glitter and gleam. Then she saw Aoi Tohsaka. With her, however, her light was dim. She no longer burned bright amongst the crowds.
"It seems that you know your place, Tohsaka." Sola-Ui walked over to Aoi, kneeling down and holding the woman's hands with her own. "And it is almost time that I learned mine."
Aoi shook her head and looked at Sola-Ui, eyes shimmering from the moonlight upon her face. "You don't have to, I chose to be here, even when I don't belong here," she spoke softly.
Sola-Ui narrowed her eyes; this woman was everything she didn't want to become, who she didn't want to turn into. "Nonsense. You do belong here, you chose to be here, like you said." She smiled, reining in her pity for the poor woman. "You also know that it is time to know your place again."
Aoi allowed herself to be led; her breath hitched when Sola-Ui dropped a kiss onto the top of her head. She breathed in the warm scent of her hair and the smell of a bitter perfume she knew from a time long gone.
It was a time long gone, and what they can never get back.