6th Inversion [Vine - Text/Accidental Video]

[ritsu_kouyou]

[The Vine unfurls to show the following letter:



A minute or so after the letter is sent, the mirror opens to show Akiha's bedroom. The fireplace is roaring and Akiha is sitting on the floor before it. Her knees are pulled up and she has her face buried in her arms, black hair pulled back in a ponytail. If one looks closely, her shoulder's shake every now and then.

Clearly, she's oblivious to the mirror's activation, but the Vine and Akiha never did get along...]


[Sent privately to Gal]

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[jemerite]

I know. People came, when the Labyrinth let me go.

[She keeps her eyes down, isn't trying to force a connection between the two of them, just offering solidarity.]

Most forgave.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

...did you kill?

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[jemerite]

[She purses her lips.]

I was stopped. Some woman... and her magic. There is not magic, where I come from.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

...neither did I. Almost, though. Kris stopped me... by pretty much sacrificing herself.

Stupid magician.

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[jemerite]

I know. [That it's incomprehensible.] Many of them, are gone. One woman is here, still. She is a friend, now.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

So what caused your inversion?

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[jemerite]

[It is a simple answer,]

Hunger.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

...we might not be too different then. I'd been stupidly fasting.

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[jemerite]

[She nods. There are more here in the Garden who understand her plight than there ever were at home.]

I cannot have... what I crave. But it is difficult, not to hunt, when things are... not calm.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

I have... a few sources, but had spurned my main one upon finding out what it really was. I constantly try to deny the monster I am.

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[jemerite]

That's difficult.

[She won't claim she understands, but hunger was difficult to manage.]

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[ritsu_kouyou]

[She curls more into herself, hating how weak she was being.]

I hate it.

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[jemerite]

My home is open, Tohno. If... you ever wish, for somewhere quiet.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

Thank you. [That oddly... means a lot to Akiha.] I don't even know who you are.

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[jemerite]

I'm called Zinc.

[Not the name she was born with, but she had been going by it for about seven years now.]

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[ritsu_kouyou]

I will... keep your offer in mind, Zinc.

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[jemerite]

Please do. I like visitors.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

I'm not very good company. Fair warning.

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[jemerite]

[Another little shrug.]

Me neither.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

Fair enough.