15: Itch
It's been there all day, in the most awkward spot between his shoulder blades and he just can't reach all of it. He tried bringing out his wings and realized why it wouldn't go away, the base of the wings was itching and apparently the wings didn't need to really be there to itch; when they weren't there the itch was under his skin and impossible to get to at all. After school he corners Riku and asks a favor, puzzled she agrees. After finding an out of the way spot he wills his wings into existence and asks her: "Scratch" plaintively. "The base of my wings has been itching all day but I can't reach the itchy part with them out. And with them in the itchy part is under the skin" Laughing she scratches and the touch of her fingers through his feathers feels so good, it is utterly blissful as the itching stops. It is the first time she has really touched his wings since he was found out, she had run her fingers through his feathers then and he had told he not to, how far they have come since then. He had always been the one to set this boundary of wings; although he had used them to warm her a few times fingers in feathers had been off limits, how foolish he had been to avoid this.