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npc contact.2
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[... with a kiss then. this is so cute. he's going to make sure he drops by to give them a goodnight kiss every night from hereon, except if amami answers the door and then he'll leave sheepishly.
anyway, he'll take a seat and fix up things for keigo to be able to sit down on the ground too if they please!!!]
Got it~. I'll be sure not to make a single mistake with you, my prince, so settle on in and allow me to pose you a single question: In a star-filled sky, what makes one so different and special than any of the others?
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When it's the sun!!
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[ The sun is the only special special star that came to mind, but also it's not there in the night. Not like how the stars in general are still in the sky during the day even though you can't see them; at night, the sun is all the way around the other side of the world. ]
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At least you caught yourself~. The sun's special, sure, but the way a single star is different than all the others that glitter in the sky...
[and subaru'll flop onto his side, face tilting upward as if he's looking up at a shining sky and not the tones of the blankets warmed by the sun.]
... is because on one of them is a very special rose, the only one of her kind.
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They roll over and copy him, staring up at the blanket canopy as if they could see that one specific star shining above their head ]
I don't get it.
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[and why keigo is special, why everyone wants them to focus away from facts and figures, which are things adults concern themselves with exclusively.]
'Cause of all the roses in all the galaxy, she was the one the Little Prince spent his time caring for and loving so much. When you spend time with someone, they become special and unique to you -- from just another face, another shopkeeper, to someone you want to see every day, to someone that hurts you when they have to go. But it's 'cause of those moments you shared that things that weren't special before become special, too.
[the starry sky. the color blue. suncatchers and encyclopedias, blanket forts and apple juice.]
You said you didn't know what you would've done if I hadn't come back, so I wanted tell you a little about that tale before someday, that becomes reality.
[...
it's not something that's come up since talking about the contract, how one day keigo may, despite subaru's best efforts, disappear and never see him again. how subaru himself is a third year, just like most of keigo's friends, and what that means.
but it's important.]
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I don't want that... I don't want the things that I love and make me happy to become something that'll just make me sad. And I don't want that for you either.
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subaru watches them first from the corner of his eye and then with a turn of his head, hand reaching over to play with their hair a bit.]
My dad passed away when I was young.
[soft, just the two of them. it's not. the whole truth. but it's true enough.]
He was an idol, just like I am now, and you'd think that the stage'd make me sad, that I wouldn't be able to sing or dance because everything reminds me of him, but-- it's because they remind me of him, of what he loved, that I can't help but feel happy too. Even if he's gone and I'll never see him again, even if I've long stepped past the back I used to reach out for when I was a kid.
[...]
"In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night..." [it's definitely a line he's reciting, turning his body proper so he can take their hand and press his lips against it.] "You -- only you -- will have stars that can laugh."
[he doesn't know how else to explain it. how he hopes keigo doesn't resent people for what they can't control and what they can, how he wants them to find happiness instead, since he sure as hell is gonna have to regardless of what the future holds.]
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But they get it. It doesn't stop the anxiety that claws at the back of the mind when thinking about losing someone, of being alone and surrounded by things but not the people they love, and it doesn't stop the tears that prick at their eyes, that dampen Subaru's shirt when they press their face against his chest, breathing him in.
But they get it. ]
We'll look up at the sky, and know we're still up there, even when we can't see each other. Right?
[ The first start fact that they learned from Subaru, and their favorite ]
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Yup. No matter what, no matter when or where, that sky is ours. I'll always be watching you, and you'll do the same.
[so stay with me, maybe, is what he would've said if he was a little more romantic and a little less clumsy. but he's not and he is so he thinks of the little prince, how he tamed and was tamed himself, and how terribly lonely it was to be apart from the people you grow to love.
subaru gets it too, the unspoken fear and anxiety. it's why he worked so hard to make his mom smile even at the cost of having a real one for himself.]
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They swallow hard and settle down, feeling for the beat of a heart against the side of their face that they turn and peer up at the castle, this safe space Subaru had made for both of them, before closing their eyes to sleep. ]