Title: Definition
Author: ariadne-chan
Rating: G
Theme: #13: Novel/Encyclopedia/Literature
Character/Pairing: Kaji Aoi/Hino Kahoko
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He finds her hard to read.
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Kaji Aoi has always loved words and he shows it, trickling them into his speech like honey, like opium—heavy and golden, slow and ponderous and sweet.
He is a quick study in other languages as well—perhaps he cannot speak them so easily, but he can read those words. He can fathom that meaning.
Hino Kahoko is foreign to him, a language unto herself, cultivated in the ringing silence after the last Schubert note. He watched as she humbly bowed and walked out of the stage, watched as she let out a sigh of relief, watched as she was surrounded and congratulated by her colleagues—he can never fathom how she could be loved by so many and remain oblivious through it all. She is an open book with printed runes—an obscure piece of literature. Priceless, yes. Fascinating, even more so, but unfathomable. Her face never changes and he wonders if there is a secret door that leads into her mind, where she keeps the dictionaries that define her thoughts .
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