[ Ori breathes out that name, and for a moment there's a surge of panic. Maybe she's miscalculated, maybe she's let her emotions get the better of her; but everything matched up so perfectly and with how he's looking at her, pleading for her to say something -
And her misgivings are soothed when he reaches for her hand, says the name she hasn't heard in so, so long. Her mother scolding her when she got into mischief, ever the more wild twin, her brother pouting at her when she played a prank... It's been so long.
And she finally gets to hear it once more. Everything bubbles over; the anxiety and relief, vision blurring as all she can muster out in a shaking sob: ]
ยซ Kai! ยป
[ He holds her tight, and she hangs on even tighter. The cake and coffee are ignored as she holds him, almost fearful he'll just vanish. Like all those dreams she had years ago, before she convinced herself that she was the only one left - where he would reach out for her and she would wake up, alone once more.
But she isn't alone now. He's here and solid and alive, and it makes her sob in relief.
Nothing else matters. Nothing else matters when her brother, her twin, is in her arms again after she believed she had lost him. She can worry about everything else later. ]
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And her misgivings are soothed when he reaches for her hand, says the name she hasn't heard in so, so long. Her mother scolding her when she got into mischief, ever the more wild twin, her brother pouting at her when she played a prank... It's been so long.
And she finally gets to hear it once more. Everything bubbles over; the anxiety and relief, vision blurring as all she can muster out in a shaking sob: ]
ยซ Kai! ยป
[ He holds her tight, and she hangs on even tighter. The cake and coffee are ignored as she holds him, almost fearful he'll just vanish. Like all those dreams she had years ago, before she convinced herself that she was the only one left - where he would reach out for her and she would wake up, alone once more.
But she isn't alone now. He's here and solid and alive, and it makes her sob in relief.
Nothing else matters. Nothing else matters when her brother, her twin, is in her arms again after she believed she had lost him. She can worry about everything else later. ]