[ it is all very disney - fluttering silk and flying hair, all lit up by starlight as lup makes her running descent to the soft chirping and cooing of these well corralled magpies, and aquila's ready.
he catches her easily, as light as air, not even stumbling a step for the graceful clothes or the weight of another body, and with the bright lights of the stars, you could see his smile, gaze turned upwards, warm and easy.
he goes ahead and gives her a twirl when he does to stave off some of the momentum so they don't go crashing to the ground, and doesn't set her down, either. ]
[her heart is thudding in her ears, when he catches her.
she's bright pink, all the way to the tips of her ears, by the time he twirls, and she just - holds onto him, expression a whole lot of things at once. she has to take a second to figure out how to remember to speak.
and what she wants to say nearly escapes her, but she can't. she has to talk around it, and it kills her. there's so much going on in her head that she can't even hope to unravel it.
a beat.]
Someone - someone I knew used to call me that. [she says, full of emotion.] ... Used to call them baobei in return.
he shouldn't react, not really - and it's hard not to feel swept up in that rush of emotion, with the way lup is looking back at him, with the sound of her voice, and... with that little term of endearment, too. it always -
...
he has to swallow a little, around familiar butterflies, and aquila doesn't break eye contact, can't, really, can't look away, and when he talks, it's affected and soft, in a way he couldn't even begin to hide. ]
[the connection between them feels - vibrant. and she just smiles, a little, when he answers. she smiles, and she thinks, I miss you, fiercely, she misses his smile and the way he looks at her, and maybe that's even stronger than any words. stronger than any love - a bond deep feeling of it being right, to be around someone.
she wants desperately to yank that veil off his face, but she doesn't.
instead, she just holds onto him, tightly, and doesn't say anything at all, because if she does, she's going to end up saying something stupid.]
[ aquila would also love to rip this veil off of his face!!!
it's bittersweet - it fits the story they found themselves walking in to, in some retrospects. there's a barrier, there, something preventing reunion, a responsibility and a duty. aquila's no stranger to either, but the old stories about being able to watch someone from afar that you love, unable to reach them almost all of the time... they resonate more than they ever really have before. that distant kind of love is beautiful on paper. in reality, it's hard not to be greedy.
he sets her down slowly, hands still at her waist. an exit to the portrait opens behind them, but for the moment, he lets it be, and holds on just as tight, leaning over a little and eventually just pressing their foreheads together, settling like that among all the stars. another little snatched moment. another little peach blossom spring.
he's the first to speak, maybe unsurprisingly. quietly, though. ] I like the sound of that word. Baobei. [ i love it when you say it, even if he can't say that, has to play like he's never heard it in his life, like it doesn't touch in all the right places of love and patriotism and all the things that make aquila - well. that make him who he is. ]
It's a word that... has meant a lot to me, in the past.
[she says finally, keeping their foreheads together. there's a long pause, as she tries to sort out what she feels, what she wants to say. none of it, it seems, not like this. but. the feelings, she'll take. it's just another little piece of resolve. she wants out of here, and she'll get them out.
she finally pulls away just a little. not far.]
You were supposed to get me coffee. [she teases, soft.] We should leave, before the birds attack us or something.
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he catches her easily, as light as air, not even stumbling a step for the graceful clothes or the weight of another body, and with the bright lights of the stars, you could see his smile, gaze turned upwards, warm and easy.
he goes ahead and gives her a twirl when he does to stave off some of the momentum so they don't go crashing to the ground, and doesn't set her down, either. ]
Hello, darling. [ c: ]
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she's bright pink, all the way to the tips of her ears, by the time he twirls, and she just - holds onto him, expression a whole lot of things at once. she has to take a second to figure out how to remember to speak.
and what she wants to say nearly escapes her, but she can't. she has to talk around it, and it kills her. there's so much going on in her head that she can't even hope to unravel it.
a beat.]
Someone - someone I knew used to call me that. [she says, full of emotion.] ... Used to call them baobei in return.
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he shouldn't react, not really - and it's hard not to feel swept up in that rush of emotion, with the way lup is looking back at him, with the sound of her voice, and... with that little term of endearment, too. it always -
...
he has to swallow a little, around familiar butterflies, and aquila doesn't break eye contact, can't, really, can't look away, and when he talks, it's affected and soft, in a way he couldn't even begin to hide. ]
What a lucky man he must have been.
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she wants desperately to yank that veil off his face, but she doesn't.
instead, she just holds onto him, tightly, and doesn't say anything at all, because if she does, she's going to end up saying something stupid.]
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it's bittersweet - it fits the story they found themselves walking in to, in some retrospects. there's a barrier, there, something preventing reunion, a responsibility and a duty. aquila's no stranger to either, but the old stories about being able to watch someone from afar that you love, unable to reach them almost all of the time... they resonate more than they ever really have before. that distant kind of love is beautiful on paper. in reality, it's hard not to be greedy.
he sets her down slowly, hands still at her waist. an exit to the portrait opens behind them, but for the moment, he lets it be, and holds on just as tight, leaning over a little and eventually just pressing their foreheads together, settling like that among all the stars. another little snatched moment. another little peach blossom spring.
he's the first to speak, maybe unsurprisingly. quietly, though. ] I like the sound of that word. Baobei. [ i love it when you say it, even if he can't say that, has to play like he's never heard it in his life, like it doesn't touch in all the right places of love and patriotism and all the things that make aquila - well. that make him who he is. ]
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[she says finally, keeping their foreheads together. there's a long pause, as she tries to sort out what she feels, what she wants to say. none of it, it seems, not like this. but. the feelings, she'll take. it's just another little piece of resolve. she wants out of here, and she'll get them out.
she finally pulls away just a little. not far.]
You were supposed to get me coffee. [she teases, soft.] We should leave, before the birds attack us or something.