Falling Stars

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They had to write an essay for school over the weekend, and though the topic was free Mayura was more than annoyed by it – after all she would have preferred to chase after mysteries, rather than only writing about them. Narugami, on the other hand, didn't seem to mind. He chose Nordic Mythology' as a topic and got pretty good marks for it, even though he wrote much more than the required five pages. Mayura cloud hardly believe he would know so much about something as boring as that.

He looked a little nervous when she asked him about it after school.

"I had an interest in things like that when I was a child", he finally said. "Some of it kinda stuck to my memory."

"But it's so boring!" Mayura exclaimed. For a moment, she thought, he almost seemed personally insulted by her words, but then he grinned his usual carefree grin.

"Actually, I think you would like it if you knew more about it. Mythology has a lot of 'wired mysteries' in it."

"Yeah, but that kind doesn't interest me", Mayura said matter-of-factly. "It isn't real, after all."

Narugami didn't look at her. "Ah, yes," he only mumbled, as if he'd forgotten.