Hotaru
Hotaru is quite flexible in her tea drinking, but she does hum appreciatively over Isla's order, clearly approving. "Perhaps we can toast to that? Future, better seasons?" The liquid they consume may not be traditional for toasting, but they are already an untraditional pair. In the hopes Isla will agree, Hotaru begins preparing her own cup - two cubes of sugar, just as she'd mentioned earlier.
Pausing as her hands lift the kettle to begin pouring at the mention of things going better, Hotaru's heterochromatic eyes flick up to Isla's pebble blues, equally surprised and strangely glad. "I'd feared a worse answer given I did know," she admits frankly as she begins pouring her tea, raising a silent brow with a slight perk of her lips towards Isla to determine if her own cup is ready so she might pour the Remedy's next. "I admit it did sting to have it be assumed I would take your place - or any romantic place - in Sunjata's life." And, were she not so understanding of Isla's perspective, she might have been crueler. But Sunjata is easy to fall for, and Hotaru cannot begrudge her any excuse to extricate herself from unreciprocated feelings. The Valkyrie had merely been the perfect catalyst. "But I cannot say that having his friendship in my days again hasn't been one of the reasons for my happiness." Unaware that Isla knows exactly how she feels.
Pausing as her hands lift the kettle to begin pouring at the mention of things going better, Hotaru's heterochromatic eyes flick up to Isla's pebble blues, equally surprised and strangely glad. "I'd feared a worse answer given I did know," she admits frankly as she begins pouring her tea, raising a silent brow with a slight perk of her lips towards Isla to determine if her own cup is ready so she might pour the Remedy's next. "I admit it did sting to have it be assumed I would take your place - or any romantic place - in Sunjata's life." And, were she not so understanding of Isla's perspective, she might have been crueler. But Sunjata is easy to fall for, and Hotaru cannot begrudge her any excuse to extricate herself from unreciprocated feelings. The Valkyrie had merely been the perfect catalyst. "But I cannot say that having his friendship in my days again hasn't been one of the reasons for my happiness." Unaware that Isla knows exactly how she feels.
come what may
she would be wild, untrammeled, free
she would be wild, untrammeled, free
