before you went and let me down

Koa

I'm the king, and you're the queen
and we will stumble through heaven

"I promise," Koa replies, forcing a smile through his discomfiture as he returns the squeeze upon her arm. There aren't many things he can promise, these days, with the world constantly moving and the rules changing every time he thinks he has them in his grasp, but writing to his sister? That, at least, shouldn't be hard. Though he does fully intend to make good on his initial promise to come back home again.

It's just that he plans to take her with him, the next time he leaves.

Koa listens patiently to her enthusiastic recount of her recent goings on, eyebrows raising, impressed, as she reveals this very major contract. "Dude, that's killer!" He beams with pride, bending over to press a proud kiss upon his sister's head. The rest of the afternoon is spend discussing her plans for his beloved training grounds over ice cream, Koa contributing his thoughts and (many) opinions to Noe's already pretty fucking great plans. It's the reconciliation he'd prayed for and hadn't dared to hope he'd get, and while things are still fucked in a major way, at least they aren't as irreparably broken as Jude had led him to believe.

[fin]

If there's a light at the end, it's just the sun in your eyes
I know you wanna go to heaven, but you're human tonight

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