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Ciel ([personal profile] expiera) wrote in [community profile] aionooc 2022-08-01 04:18 am (UTC)

Mmhm.

[The hum of confirmation is faint, the other woman may feel it more than hear it. It'll be a lot to take in, but it's the plain truth. Unable to promise this woman safety knowing how suffocatingly tight sect tensions are between Kenoma and Pleroma at this time, Ciel can only pray that their time here remains undisturbed.

The pause is palpable before the red-haired woman finally answers, though her weakness would be just as likely of a reason for it than anything else. 'Carmine', like the color... It doesn't sound entirely natural. Then again, who is she to judge, when she's discarded her own baptismal name and bears a different one for herself now?]


Carmine.

[She repeats back softly, her hold still firm and steady; as long as Carmine still needs.]

What do you wish for, Carmine?

[It's sudden and forward of her, she knows. She'll apologize later. Ciel wouldn't be able to explain herself particularly well either, if asked just what drove her to ask such a question. It feels like the "right" time though, somehow, and depending on her answer...

...]

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