Private - The tangled knots of fate (18+)

_____This was going to be a most enjoyable night indeed. Her hands wrapping her slim frame as she tried to contain her excitement as best she could at what was to come. Every fiber of her body was trembling as she tried to ease it more by falling backwards onto the soft fluffy sheets of her mattress. One of the few growing perks of not only restarting dating the princess acting as a prince, but earning money from her restaurant. Frame sinking slightly into the soft warmness of the bed that only backfired in keeping her excitement down.

_____Today she would get her first shot at Harveste, not from a mellow version but fully go after the girl and try to subdue her into a toy. She wanted to add her into her collection so badly. Sure it might cause her other side to get all grim but maybe it would give her the perfect chance to take over and stop having to work with the small windows she was given when her other self lost control of her emotions. Today she was going to need to try extra hard, and just the idea of that was driving the scarlet haired girl up the walls.

_____She had asked to see Harveste in her room in dunnstand for a ‘special talk’ she kept out the details but made sure to add a kissy face and hearts to her message to hopefully hint what she wanted to do. Sure, it was not like the Kaede the girl was starting to know but maybe she was wanting another fun night that maybe she felt Kaede would be desiring one also from her partner and lover. Leaving the location and a note that she kept a spare key under a spider lily plant on the stairs.

______Sadly that left the girl with time to kill and a extremely hard time calming down as she just rolled on the bed holding her sides and moaning happily. Her body was already heated up like a furnace, not to mention the special tools and toys she got from her lovely friend Diabloa including the odd candles that kept the girl on the verge but unable to release unless she felt another’s touch inside her. It was a extremely cruel and lovely tool to add to her collection and testing it was more than pleasing to her.

_____She wanted to test it more, just the smell was driving her up a wall, adding thoughts was making her claw for release, what would teasing herself add to that all? Left hand tracing down her skin, index and middle slowly pushing under her black panties and pressing the two fingers to the sides of her clit and almost breaking her back as she bent upwards, it was way too much, she really got herself into a pickle here, but all she could think of was going more. Fingers moving further down and pressing only her nails into the soft slit.

”MMMMH!!!~”

_____One sound that she felt would have broken glass if she had any around her. She was so pressed she felt her own mind was starting to fade out of her reach but could not stop herself as her fingers rubbed around her insides violently ravaging her inner sweet spots and forcing her excited clit down with part of her hand driving the girl to roll over to try and muffle her slutly moans from herself. Sure she got loud and wild sometimes but she was just a slave to her own touch and could not even get release.

_____Second hand moving to left breast, arm resting on her right nipple to keep it pressed down as she teased the other and rolled back over, mouth biting into a pillow to take it with her as she tried to keep muffling herself with little success. She was going to lose herself if Harveste did not show up, here she wanted to make the girl do this yet she was the victim in need of saving from herself as she only got more aggressive with her own body knowing all her spots and how to move between them in harmony.
@Harveste

 

She'd been going to Diabloa's shop a bit more often recently- mostly because she learned a lot there, both about (albeit awkward) botany and Kaede- though, to her surprise, Diabloa also seemed to mention a few unique purchases and tests she'd gotten the other girl into. It was at that shop that she got an unusual message, a shudder in her spine.

Kaede, at this point, was too nervous most of the time to do much. She often seemed to hide herself, and in general, she'd been very adamant to be formal- something this message was not. I wonder if it has to do with the voices? I know our date was cut short last time...And Diabloa's been acting like something isn't right...

Shaking her head, she wandered to the shop using directions given carefully, blushing at the sight of the spider lily. Her thoughts wandered, wondering why it was planted there. Was it because it was the first flower she'd given Kaede? No, Kaede was a bit like a different person now. In a way...Hadn't she given that flower to someone else? Did it count as having been given to Kaede, or to her lost one...?

Stop overthinking! She's waiting for you after avoiding you so long! A tint red, she went for the key and looked around, before finding her way into the room as she'd been instructed. The sight before her, however, turned the light red into a complete crimson overcoming her pale features. Was now really a good time to walk in? And... What exactly was that weird smell?

"K-Kaede?" She wished she had something to hide behind, but the room lacked the right furnishing for that. Harveste wanted to hide her pleasure of seeing Kaede so energetic, on the one hand- but on the other, she wasn't sure if it was Kaede. Something about her seemed...Different. More different than usual.

Clearing her throat as the slight scent of the candle across the room seemed to taint her nose, she squirmed in the corner she'd entered from, pigeon-toed as her knees shook under her weight, the mixture of feelings in her head and body rather troubling. "Um... What was it you wanted to talk about? If you want, I'll come back later... I mean..." Her fingers fidgeted at the hem of her dress as she tried to avert her gaze.

Something feels strange...Why...Am I so warm...? Is it really that hot in here...? Oh, the candle was emanating heat... That could be it, right? She wanted some 'logical' reason... But none really fit. "It really is warm...Isn't it, Kaede?"

 

______Hearing the name of her other half was enough to draw her focus away long enough to notice the girl watching her, for how long she had no idea but the only a few things crossed her mind. Struggling to move her hands from her body as she started to crawl towards the foot of the bed trembling and struggling to focus on the first issue. Slowly moving off to crawl along the ground to shut the door as she fell down and her body met a sharp cold of the floor driving her to moan and tremble more and look up at Harveste and seemed to struggle with her words.

”...They are… a lot stronger than I expected… ...I need… you…”

_____Moving slowly to try and start crawling towards the girl and pull her down and move over her, scarlet eyes lost in desire as she moved to kiss the neck of the girl and took a small bite to stifle the moans from her mouth that followed it. Moving to lower her waist down to grind against the girl’s dress and almost ripped her own bra off before moving to kiss Harveste’s lips forcing wih everything to get inside her mouth and pulling at her lower lip.

”I need you to... “

_____Once more unable to finish her train of thought as she move her waist up and tugged her panties off revealing the drenched waistline from her continued high without release. Moving from her kiss to pant and breath warm air on her partner’s ear as she moved to grind against her more. She wanted to slap herself but so far she was still trapped in her desires and the only way to be saved was for harveste to set her free even if that was going to counter her plans for the night.

”Fuck me… senseless… i can… can’t release… trapped in a high… help…”

_____Frame moving to deeply try and kiss her partner’s lips and claim them to countless play. Her tongue moving around as if on a sugar high not wanting to slow down and trying to get her partner as turned on as she was. Hands moveing to lower her down to rest her naked body along the girl’s dress and rub against her as hse moaned and had to bite her lip to keep some sliver of her sanity and restraint to avoid giving in to much to her desire. If Harveste still kept back it would seem to anger the girl slightly.

”Hurry… I need you… your touch… Please… Spider lily…”

_____Athea would move to try and strip the girl herself if she was still not trying to help her, she was losing it being so close and needed a release or she would not be able to do what she wanted before she passed out. If Harveste tried to resist she would look with pleading eyes, she wanted to show the girl how hard it was on her to admit she needed it so much but refused to do it since to her it was the farthest from what she wanted to be.

”I’ll let you be top… do what you say, anything… just shove something in me… please… I can’t take much more without losing myself…”

_____Now she knew she was desperate but so far she felt that was the only way to make sure she could get her goal for the night. If she had to bend over once to let a partner have their way with her it would be worth it if she could get them as a toy during the next few rounds. If she was told to stop or move she would but seemed very against the idea and would do as she was told with little to no delay. Hands moving to tease herself trying her best to break the effects and release herself from the desires.

_____She was going to hate herself later if she failed to get herself a toy out of Harveste, much more if she became one for the girl. She had the pride and desire to not break and she very much doubted the girl knew what to do to break her, then again she never found those out herself yet either.
@Harveste

 

That 'need' she saw was terrifying. Something about it had an alarm bell ringing, telling her this wasn't Kaede at all. Unfortunately, Harveste had a strong need to take care of Kaede, however- and whoever it was, was working hard to act like the girl Harveste adored. Trying, failing, and trying again...

It was certainly insanity if she'd ever seen it.

Pulled down as easily as she was offline, she found herself stuck under the girl's weight but without the cold of tile this time to taunt her. The lips against her skin caused her already shaking body to tremble. Can't...I need to hold it in. I promised Kaede... To help her find herself, but...It's like something's different, telling me it's not her... Avoiding acting, she seemed to stay as still as she could- but still, Kaede was begging.

"What's gotten into you...? I was sure you were afraid of my hands by now." Smiling sadly, it was a truth she'd come to admit to herself recently. Kaede was tormented by herself, and it led her struggling not to fear others that might taint her while she found her own color. As much as she hated to admit it, Harveste knew she was one who could easily, without meaning to, taint her.

I can't do that to her, though...

The begging seemed to grow, and a slight anger mixed with the request at one point or another. The crimson haired woman's breathing was as off as the alarm in the Faerin's head, but she was clearly needing help. Harveste's eyes glanced to the candle, which smelled somehow familiar while discreetly unusual. "I'm gonna assume that's the cause for whatever is going on... Diabloa give you that?"

Frowning upon being told to take the lead, as if it wasn't something they'd done before even once, she was beginning to better comprehend what was going on... and yet had no idea what to do about it. Sneaking an arm around Kaede- or whoever it was, she was starting to have her doubts- she hugged the girl close and snuggled a head onto her shoulder.

"I'll try to give you what you need...But I want this first. Let me hold you for a little while...Because I haven't been able to in so long. It's okay if I'm a little greedy, isn't it, Kaede~?"

 

_____Athea would grumble her disapproval over the order but would follow it, she was left with little options, the girl was the only one who knew about this house and most the people she knew had been NPCs who she could not give a booty call to. Holding the girl gently as she tried to keep holding onto her sanity, no doubt these toys could help her break the more stubborn girls, and if only she had that before the killer had escaped from her bunker location before she could be broken into as another toy. Moving her hands to gently rub her partner’s inner thigh.

”...I can see why she likes you… Please… hurry so we don’t end up hurting you to get what we can’t give our... self…”

_____Athea would whisper to the girl, hopefully she was not planning to hold her longer, sure later would be fine once she was a toy and it could be her reward, but right now she was pushing into a dangerous territory and Athea had no issues harming a girl before sex and during, thought she preferred to be on the receiving side herself.
@Harveste

 

Running a hand through the crimson hair as she kept the woman close, her words haunted the Faerin slightly. 'We' means... I knew it... Something really isn't right here, yet...I can sense Kaede too... But 'we' means... With a soft sigh, she rolled herself over to slightly hover above the desperate mixture of a lover and stranger that had called for her aid. "Tell me who 'we' means...so I know who to call to. Because I'm already certain you're not not Kaede, and yet you're also really not..."

The hand on her thigh had her torment growing. That damn incense light or whatever the candle was didn't hold a real candle to the scent of her lover's flesh, something that was all too easy to inhale as she pressed her lips against an exposed shoulder, a hand sliding between the woman's legs.

If she was going to be teased, she'd tease back. She'd tease the information she wanted out of her and enjoy it, thankful for an excuse to touch the person she'd promised to give some distance to despite her ample needs of her own. She wanted to know who was in control of the body, because while Kaede was there, she wasn't alone- but it didn't seem quite like the spirits that had bothered her during their date, either.

Lips moving down her partner's collarbone, she planted kisses down her chest before idly pressing against her breast, a soft smile on her face. "Kaede's been distant, lately... I was so happy, getting that call, even if something seemed off... Assuming she can hear me, I hope Kaede knows... I'm sorry for taking advantage of this situation... But I've been yearning to be closer. But I promise to only think of Kaede... No matter who's really talking right now. Because Kaede... Is very special to me. And I can't quite describe how with words..."

 

_____Athea was not enjoying this girl enjoying the idea of taking her time to ask questions. Body trembling as she felt Harveste’s lips along her body, the soft and slightly wet flesh leaving a slightly chilled spot in their parting moments as Athea whimpered and gave in to reply to her question with shaken breath.

”She… calls me Athea… But…”

_____Athea would press herself against Harveste, hands moving to try and rip the cloths now as she was starting to feel the struggle going out of her control. She needed the girl to get things going or both of them would not be able to ever care for who touched them or anything outside that. Body rolling away from the girl as she reached under the bed to get out a seed the girl should know well enough.

”I don’t care if you don’t think of me… all I care about is you fucking me so this high end!”

_____Athea would move to try and shove the seed into Harveste, even if the girl still wanted to talk Athea was not going to be much of a talker unless she was getting fucked in the next few moments. Reaching to hold the new appendage and rub her fingers along it before moving to have it enter her pussy and causing her to moan loudly with joy, the boosted feeling driving her to climax right away and a crimson shade to wash over her. To cum just from getting entered was a disgrace, but moving to set her hands to the ground near Harveste’s sides she began to ride the dick with heavy motions and a tight grip as she panted and moaned.

”That was not because I wanted you in me! It was the damn half finished toys from Diablo! The real thing starts now you hear me!”
@Harveste

 

So this is Athea...? Then... Has Kaede's personality completely split? It wasn't like this was the first time she'd met someone with such a situation- one of her earliest friends had multiple personalities and, for the most part, they weren't that difficult to deal with. Split personalities weren't the end of the world, and were sometimes fun to read about. And they also weren't uncommon.

In fact, in some ways, Harveste's personality was also a split one, some could say. Her mind was always on a thin line of black and white, navigating a world of 'good' or 'bad' with very little room for accepting something in the center. Her ability to trust had, generally, dwindled over her young years to a minimum.

However, she'd met and felt at ease with Kaede before she started to change... If she thought about it, this was just an extreme form of Kaede's past self. Thinking that way made it more easy to endure, even as Athea rushed their actions, not caring who was being thought of at the time.

"I care," She mumbled lightly, gasping at the force used on her. It was still fairly embarrassing, the unusual appendage added to her body, the nerve pinching as it attached itself. Her face turned an unnatural red, as if she were on fire- and she felt very much like she was as the other body pushed against the foreign body part now a part of her, the warmth tightening around it far too pleasing to bare.

With a hand at either side of her waist, she found herself unable to move or do anything in the moment. A small voice managed to cry out from her thin lips, her hands held tightly to her chest, as if clenching it.

"Please... Tell me... Kaede...Tell me... This isn't bad... Tell me... It feels okay... Tell me you're smiling, Kaede..." With her words, a tear fell from her eye, though faint and fast in movement. She was struggling with a mixture of guilt and grand excitement, of horror and happiness. With each word she'd tried to muster, she felt her nails dig into her own skin a bit more from holding tighter.

She couldn't feel more grateful her heart no longer ached as it felt like it would in such a situation. She didn't feel like she'd die in pain- instead, it was only the grief keeping her heart from feeling at rest. "Athea, please... Please tell me she's okay... I wanted... To wait for her... To wait until Kaede would be smiling... Is she okay...? I want her... To smile for me, more and more... I-I know it's not fair, but I... I need her smile..."

 

”Kaede can’t hear you… let alone remember most the things I do while in control…”

_____Athea would move her hands to Harveste’s stomach, her hips pulling up and gliding back down as she kept gripping onto the dick happily enjoying the fun and warmth inside her. It seemed the girl was greedy, and all this time Kaede just made it worse on her. But this was also the perfect chance to use the girl in another way then she had planned. Moving to lay against the girl as if she fell asleep at random before fluttering her eyes and blushing deeply at the sight.

”Sp..Spider lily… wha… what is going on…”

_____Athea would move away slowly, crawling and covering herself as she kept trying to act out her other half as best she could. She knew her well, and hoped the girl would fall for the trick as she slowed to a halt and held her body tightly gasping for air. Her body trembling as she started panting and looking to Harveste with worried and embarrassed look in her eyes.

”Wha… What is going on… Why is… my body… so hot… why…”

_____Athea felt herself wanting to throw up inside her mind, she hated the shy girl act most of all but if she could lure the girl into either taking the aggression so she could turn it, or find a way to break the two apart it could break Kaede to never want to reveal herself again. Trembling some more as she gasped for air and kept wrapping around her body. One good thing was the candle helping keep her acting of desire up while she had to focus a lot on playing the roll of Kaede.

”Did… you… cause this… After I… Trusted you… Spider lily… why…”

_____Athea began to start crying for added measure. She had to act her role maybe overshoot it to make sure it was good to last. If Harveste seemed so set on getting Kaede’s approval, her smile, well she just had to shatter that first before swooping in to take the girl for herself. Cruel and underhanded, sure but she wanted her freedom fully and Harveste was a key piece in getting that. As long as Kaede and her got along, well Kaede would fight Athea at every corner and that was just not going to work. Moving to back away from the girl again and curl into a corner. Acting as if the one she trusted the most betrayed her and hope was lost.
@Harveste

 

There were a few giveaways to Harveste, who at least knew enough about Kaede to recognize a few small tells. Adding in that she'd already mildly fallen for Athea's game once, and that she was fairly sure even without hearing or remembering, Kaede at least knew there was something different there, surely this was still Athea in Harveste's mind.

Still, it did tug at her heart a bit. Seeing the albeit fake fear in Athea's eyes when she moved to the corner was a painful thing, because it was still Kaede's body. But that lack of actually changing her breathing... That unusually fluid change... It's definitely not Kaede. Plus...Somehow, she just still seems different... Like she's not her... Not /my/ Kaede...

Realizing the words in her head made her blush as she recalled them. When had she become so... Possessive? And so certain about something so vague, at that? Crawling over and struggling in doing so because of her unusual body at the moment, the small form wrapped her arms around the curled up Yladian, snuggling her head into the crook of her neck from behind.

"Believe it or not, I'm not a fool, Athea. While Kaede's timid... She'd wait to know what was going on or leave entirely if she was that scared of me or anything else." Her words were whispered carefully into the woman's ears, a slight memory that a Yladian's ears were sensitive in general, and remembering the last time she'd done so made Kaede redder than an apple.

A hand moved to reach for one of the ones curled around the woman's body, her skin still resting against her. "Kaede also might notice the smell even better than I would. The smell that I felt was toxic and strange... If I can notice it, when I'm not someone used to smelling a thing in the world... Surely Kaede, who is bright, would notice. Especially if she ever noticed the strange items in her inventory in the first place..."

With a soft, sad giggle, she kissed the cheek of the woman she knew yet didn't, before letting go and standing, looking around awkwardly. "This is quite a predicament though... For me, at least. You really should really give Kaede more credit. She's not a fool, not as much as I am. After all..."

A hand moved to her chest, the other idly to the appendage between her hips that she squeezed strongly, as if trying to crush it, the pain clear on her face as she let out a whimper and tears.

"I'm a fool that's fallen so far for her I can't feel at ease touching her body if it's possessed by another. This pain as I crush this thing...It's not nearly as bad as the pain I felt when you touched me of your own volition..." She was clearly trying to rip it off, but to no avail.

Was there such thing as a vine strong enough to cut through it? No, not that she knew of... But she did know of some plants that could cause her libido to go down enough to kill it, didn't she? Even if she couldn't prepare it the same way, surely it would work.

Summoning a licorice root with a soft, sad song, she bit into it and ignored the unsavory taste of it's raw flesh. She ate enough of it that she was sure it was an ounce- what she'd read would help. And surely, the fake phallis was slowly shriveling, the warmth trying to taint her calming down.

She had enough for two and offered some to the other girl. "If it really hurts that much, eat this. It's not the tastiest of things, but it'll calm the heat down. This way... Neither you nor Kaede will be pained by the heat in your bellies anymore... And maybe you'll relax a bit in general... While I find my way somewhere safe, and write a letter to beg her forgiveness whether she'll remember or not. The only one I want to touch is Kaede as herself. I don't know why you're fighting with her... But I refuse to be part of it, not if it might hurt the one I love. Understood?"

 

”we are the same person, two sides of a coin. She refuses to admit I'm a part of her so the only thing I could do was break away and try to get her to see me as such, or destroy the other half so she can’t lock me away!”

_____Her words spoken after angrily biting down the offered item, both her changed mood and it helping to calm her down from the longer exposure before she could only growl at Harveste for what she was saying. Athea was part of Kaede, not to mention, though she would never admit it herself Athea wanted Harveste badly even if the idea of using her to break down Kaede was not going to happen. Hand reaching to pull the girl back or keep her close as she showed her anger.

”It’s your fault this happen! Before you We had been fine and on even terms! But ever since she started to really get feeling like she had for Athea she cast me out and locked me away and I'm sick of it! How can she love you when you're the reason she is getting torn apart inside! If she never met you she would not be so hurt inside!”

____Athea was not fully lying, but at the same time she was pushing most the fault onto Harveste. She knew Kaede better than anyone, how the girl wanted to live a more relaxed life but refused to admit that. She knew how much Kaede cared for Harveste, and how hard it was on her to try and break things off with others to make sure she had more time for the girl. In the end she knew even she herself would be tossed aside for Harveste and she did not want that. Hand moving to tightly grip the girl’s arm to the point it would hurt.

”You say you want no part but in the need it comes down to two thing! Me, or you! Kaede is going to have to pick one of us because the both of us can’t exist in her life!”

_____Athea would toss the arm away from her as she rose to her feet glowing with rage towards Harveste. Part of her hoped, even slightly thought, maybe if she could get the girl to accept her also Kaede would not fight against Athea so much, would not try to change her life so much. Not flip her life for someone who might not always love her, not always live close enough or be there when she needed her. Moving to the door to slam it open for Harveste to leave. She had no reason or desire to stay around the girl any longer if she was set on staying out of things until there was no other choice.

_____If Harveste bothered to look back before leaving the room she would see the sign of tears starting to show in Athea’s eyes before the door was slammed shut and the girl fell down, a quick spell chant before a ball of fire blasted the candle to bits without spreading leaving the air to clear up. Frame sliding as her back rested on the door and she waited a few moments before letting the tears fall from her eyes. In the end it ended up about how she vaguely wished it would not go.

”So in the end… it will have to be one or the other… I hope you chose right Kaede… We… you won’t be able to handle losing another person you hold that dearly… I helped cope last time… but this time… if you can hear me your choice is final…”

_____Moving her arms to wrap her legs as she balled up to just take the time to cry. She knew it would likely be Harveste who won in the end, Kaede wanted someONE person to fill the hole left after Athea’s death, the other side of the girl that was the stand in for Athea just hoped the girl’s desire for something matched what she needed, and that this time it would not be cut short by fate. Either way, as she slowly wiped the tears from her face she knew she would not go down without some fighting. Maybe, just maybe she could show Kaede one lover was a bad idea.
@Harveste

 

"Well, I'm not planning to force her to accept what she doesn't accept. I've been dark places... I've seen how hard it can be to accept something about oneself... And she's not the only one who has changed from our meeting. Don't think that's so, because it's not."

Her eyes stared up at Athea sternly. Her body still trembled, but her eyes held no fear as she let her voice ring into song. She was already mostly bare- to let her heart be such as well wouldn't be as scary, not if she felt she could ring through to both the souls in the single body she saw.

"Walking along the line~
Working to make the time
To see you when you're worried
And surely not feeling fine.

The line that was once so thin,
Between lover and stranger and friend,
Has suddenly made a deeper mark
Suddenly created a worthy spark,

I don't know why, but I-
I've lost myself in time
Wondering whether you'll find me,
Wondering if I should hide me..."​

She soon realized, as she sang, that her eyes were in tears- and her words felt convoluted at best, despite the picture so clear in her head. She took a deep breath, stopping her song short.

Sometimes, it was better to let herself ramble, she realized. And ramble she certainly did. "I was told many moons ago... That the border between good and bad was fickle, that my mind was but a switch for a light. I've been afraid of people since I was little...I've lost a lot of them, albeit in a different way. I spent over a decade now, constantly feeling that if I wanted to keep someone near, I had to be in love with them- because otherwise, they'd leave my side like all the rest. But because of that... I didn't know what love was anymore. To me... It was too scary to think anything would last, so I tried to grasp at many at a time so I'd never be alone. But..."

With a shiver, she moved to grab hold of Athea's hand. "Kaede changed that... She told me to sing from my heart, and that made me realize I didn't even know my heart anymore. That's why... When she came to me and said she wanted to find herself s well... I decided that, for the woman who gave me a new perspective, who made me really look at myself... I'd do what I could to help her. To see that smile I'd grown to cherish from the beginning. You may say that it would be better if we hadn't met... But I'll never believe that. I also don't believe it's really a matter of one or the other. Rather than that... I think it might be best if Kaede's choice weren't so cut and dry. To her, you're separate even if you're the same. But...If you force your way, you'll only scare her more than she is of herself, Athea. I know you truly love her... So instead of sharing that love with others to hide your worries, you should try to talk to her directly. Tell her how you feel... Tell her you love her, and you miss her. Tell her you want to live peacefully... That you want her to smile. And then... Let her decide for herself what will make her smile- and try to smile alongside her. If she decides she won't smile with me... I'll accept that, albeit not happily. I'll watch from the shadows to watch her smile. But... If I'm willing to do that, shouldn't you, who's closer to her, be able to do the same? To support what she's longing for, rather than selfishly try to force her hand like this?"

Realizing she was no longer wanted or welcome at least by the woman in the room, she smiled sadly and retracted her hand, finding herself being forced outside. Hearing sobs, she leaned her forehead on the door that had slammed in her face, tearing silently for a time. "Kaede...Is the one I truly love. And that's why... What I want is her happiness, even if I'll have to say goodbye. So long as I can see her feeling at ease with herself, not harmed by hear own heart... I'll be more than satisfied, even if I'm left alone once more."

 

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