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.

26. 26

26. Daily

Fei goes home - Yuuko-han's home, not her own empty apartment – and sees Kishibe Rie. Rage filled her stomach until she heard the sound of a terrible aching sob. A sound that filled Fei with a jealous kind of bile. There, there, here was a mother who loved her children, who desired and treasured and cared for them in every bit of breath.

"Sit," Kishibe said. "Your wounds aren't that well off. Sit."

Fei sits.

And Kishibe talks. About many things, but most are about Yuuko-han and her brother, and so Fei drinks it all in with envy and delirious hunger.