~Two halves~
Would their absence be noted?
Thoughts like this never occurred to him, traveling between the two worlds. The instant he and Lilynette set foot in the land of blue sky and mild sunshine everything else seemed to melt away. It wasn't as though the divide had disappeared, Rukia retained a certain amount of distrust for them, one that slight though it was, still pained him somehow.
He didn't so much blame her as the rest of the world. Being what he was as well as Lilynette, even if they had been long ago one form. He tried explaining once to Rukia this particular bond if it could so be called that—perhaps more of a way for her to understand the fraccion's clingy possessiveness.
He didn't want her to think the wrong thing about them.
Or so he told himself.
It wouldn't be right to allow her to keep thinking it was some sort of human-like affection that kept Lilynette hanging off of him nearly every second of sitting on a rooftop or whatever place chosen as the meeting's sojourn.
Rukia smiled a little and pretended to understand but he could tell she really didn't. It was too difficult explaining in as few words what had driven a being as powerful as him to separate. Divide. Two halves that had been one whole once. Stark wondered if she guessed the truth as her smile saddened still a curve of her mouth but lacking joy, looking at them.
It wasn't pity he saw.
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"I wouldn't mind…""Hn?" he glanced to the foot of the bed where Lilynette sat, her knees drawn up to her chest. She appeared deep in thought and gave hardly a notice to his curious look.
"I wouldn't mind if it was her." She muttered to herself.
He had to wonder just what Lilynette meant by that.
Though he had his suspicions.
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