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Hotaru

Though she has her own reflexes and defenses to count on, they’re ultimately unnecessary - as she had expected - as the Honeybee is an adept archer, who (although prone to doing it metaphorically) is not prone to shooting first and asking questions later. The easy, youthful grin is met with a warm, elegant counterpart and fingertips that come to kiss the point of Melita’s shoulder as she moves closer. Careful not to intrude upon the territory of the girl’s new companion. A wiggle of her other hand towards Fangorn is also given in greeting.

“A few, yes. Are you hunting them for something in particular?” There was no need to verbalize the fact that neither were great for consumption, Mel surely knew that. “I haven’t been to the festival yet, no stunning date has offered to take me and I can’t simply arrive alone can I?” The merry twinkle in her eye says it’s all in jest, but there’s a degree of truth to it, if defined more clearly by paranoia. Ru knows how Fiat Lux has been tainted, and she doesn’t particularly want to visit without someone to watch her back. Curiosity alone wouldn’t draw her just yet. “I can compel some closer for you if you’d rather not track them.” Asserting the offer early lest they get distracted with gentle jibes and conversation.

Did you ever love her? Do you know?
Or did you never want to be alone?

Hotaru has a passive magic that makes her glow with an internal golden light; it makes her appear youthful and her hair seems to look like moving sunlight. Can only subtly illuminate dark spaces.

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