A/N: Well... I'd really rather try to edit this more, but I feel like I've dawdled enough with it for the time being.
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It'd been a few days, but Sodoma had managed to make it through the hardship of not returning home to her father. At Hikari's suggestion, she had visited a therapist on the second day home, and the help was trying to help her work through what had happened. The ambassador was at her every beck and call, even if it was just to have someone in the room with her.
Now, Sodoma sat at the breakfast table in her home, Hikari once again at her side, but actually doing something in her current endeavor instead of just being in the same room. Papers littered the furniture in front of her,an array of different papers that one would find to contain demotions, promotions, and general reassignments. It would be a few more months before she officially became the island leader, but there was no use in not getting things put through early, especially when some of them deserved what they were getting.
"My lady?" Sodoma looked up at Hikari, who seemed fidgety. "I know you're busy with these papers, but I did have a question, if I might speak it."
"You know you never need my permission to speak your mind, Hikari," she responded. "Especially now that I am only just of age to take over as leader. I would very much like to avoid history repeating itself."
"Then, you don't mind me asking what is to become of me?" The teenager's head lifted from where it was looking at the papers.
"What do you mean?"
"I was sent here when I was younger as a beacon of good will between your family and mine, and was to remain as such until the personal tensions between the two caused in part because of my brother's marriage to your cousin were to die down. What is your stance on the situation?"
"Well, I think it's a petty. Tell me, Hikari, if there was someone on another island you desperately wanted to be with, who you loved and they loved you back, who made you happy in a dark time, would you leave everything you had at home to be with them?"
Hikari looked down, twiddling his fingers as he thought of his significant other. "Of course. I mean, if Don resigned, I'd follow him anywhere he went."
"That's why those tensions exist. They didn't like that she made that decision, and that's why you're here with me now. I'll admit, I was part of that at first, but after everything that happened over the last week and a half, I don't see why it was ever a problem. Which I guess takes me back to your original question."
"Whatever you decide, I'll do," he said.
"I am unsure at this time, but if you're willing, I have one more spot open for an assistant. Because I'm so young, the advisors want me to have a few, and all the others I've picked so far are from this town already," Sodoma replied. "As such, it'd be no problem for you to escape the island every now and then. Where you go, I would have to know so if we don't hear back from you we know where to look, but it'd be no problem. You've been here a long time."
Hikari let the words register for a moment, before a grin broke out on to his face.
"That sounds nice, Leader."