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On the star-way, the moon-path, on the road between sky and space
"And if I no longer belong here, then where?" she asked, tucking a strand of dark hair behind her ear in a movement that spoke of nervousness. "This place -these people- are my home."
"There is a place." he soothed, finally turning to face her -and bringing Chihiro once more nose to nose with the myth that was not a myth. His breath was warm as it fanned across her cheeks -smelling of salt water, but it left frost kissing her eyelashes. "It resides between the worlds -much like you do. It is a gift for my bride."
She pulled back at that -words that she could not swallow sounding bitter even to her own ears. "You know, no one has actually asked me if I want to get married. I'm not an object -and I can't just be given to you like some cheap hand-me-down christmas gift."
The dragon nodded solemnly at that, turning to look back out at the world before them. "Had it been my decision to make, I would have courted you in the spring after the wounds of the land had been healed and followed the proper rites of betrothal." he confessed after a long moment of silence, and more to her surprise -he stood, his long body twisting around her. "On the night in which I revealed myself to this village -you were the first mortal to recognise the realness in me. After centuries of being forgotten -on the verge of becoming a fallen god, your belief in my realness gave me strength again. And that is why I saved you, Chihiro Ogino, -because you saved me."
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