Post by Hikaru on Apr 28, 2019 6:25:10 GMT
So Jhelks was the same as her.
Hikaru didn’t know what to make of that information. Shock? Surprise? She hadn’t thought about what she would do when she came face to face with the PTO again. Muchless with an ex-soldier such as herself. Hell, Hikaru hadn’t even thought of some one leaving the PTO as a possibility until she herself did it. It was all she had known. It just was? One could no sooner stop being a member of the Planetary Trade Organization than they could stop being a member of their family.
Yet, here she was. Hikaru had left the organization. And now she had met another who had as well. It was… surreal.
Now that he knew Hikaru felt a strange sense of… relief? She hadn’t been keeping it a secret intentionally. She supposed she had been on some level. No one knew, it didn’t really come up in casual conversation. But now that Jhelks knew the truth, her mind invariably flashed to her new companions and acquaintances. Mollau. Peardian. Gastro. Pado. Denth. Tonfa. What might they think if they knew?
Hikaru wasn’t sure they would all accept it as easily as Jhelks just had.
“Hm?” Hikaru glanced up into Jhelks eyes when he mentioned wanting to see her again. Hikaru cocked her head thoughtfully, hair falling to the side, “Now?”
Then her gloved hand went to the collar of her coat and she began to strip it off…
...only started though.
She knew what Jhelks had meant by wishing to see more of her. However, a small part of Hikaru couldn’t help but roll with the joke that came to her. Hikaru could be socially obtuse at the best of times, even after Gastro’s thorough lessons. But even she wasn’t so naive as to take Jhelks literally in this moment. She knew that some people might take her as that simple, though. Sometimes it was fun to play into it.
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