This Sky With No Lights

by Aiko Isari

In Digital City, the night is dark. Some people seek to light up the sky. Others seek out its beauty in the dark. Fei/Yuuko A small Stars sidestory.

20. 20

20. Linger

One night is not enough. One night of lingering hands and desperate noise is not enough but they have to make it last.

It was sudden, with Yuuko in frustrated tears and exasperated puffs of breath and Fei herself stumbling on worn out leg, too many hours in EDEN and they can feel all the failure in their bones and-

Fei tastes someone else's chapstick on Yuuko's cheek and wonders and asks and hears-

"It was weird she missed on purpose, I'm sorry," and it's all jumbled and Fei laughs because she understands.

"I'm territorial," she says and it's true.