Every few hours during the day, Yuuri stops what she's doing to repeat those words to herself and just try and absorb it. Ruu is safe. Even now, she's not fully convinced she's not about to blink awake and realize the whole thing was a dream.
It's not been perfect. Even she can see that – or rather, she's better equipped than anyone to see it. Ruu's still quiet and timid, just as she remembered, but there's a difference to it now. It's like the softness she remembered has been ground down and sharpened to a razor edge and it makes Yuuri feel off-kilter when she sees it.
So maybe, considering all that, she shouldn't be so surprised by the message Ruu gives her. Ruu had to have survived somehow out there at the school alone, but seeing it still makes Yuuri feel winded, like she's taken a blow to the stomach.
It takes her a second to make her voice level and, she hopes, keep her expression neutral if not completely calm. ]
Hunting... for animals, you mean. [ Of course that's what she means. It's right there in the note, but Yuuri has to say it out loud to confirm it for herself. ] Is that what you'd been doing back– back at the school?
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Every few hours during the day, Yuuri stops what she's doing to repeat those words to herself and just try and absorb it. Ruu is safe. Even now, she's not fully convinced she's not about to blink awake and realize the whole thing was a dream.
It's not been perfect. Even she can see that – or rather, she's better equipped than anyone to see it. Ruu's still quiet and timid, just as she remembered, but there's a difference to it now. It's like the softness she remembered has been ground down and sharpened to a razor edge and it makes Yuuri feel off-kilter when she sees it.
So maybe, considering all that, she shouldn't be so surprised by the message Ruu gives her. Ruu had to have survived somehow out there at the school alone, but seeing it still makes Yuuri feel winded, like she's taken a blow to the stomach.
It takes her a second to make her voice level and, she hopes, keep her expression neutral if not completely calm. ]
Hunting... for animals, you mean. [ Of course that's what she means. It's right there in the note, but Yuuri has to say it out loud to confirm it for herself. ] Is that what you'd been doing back– back at the school?