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That's a heck of a lot bigger than any cabin.

[guess who is in court when he Should Not Be, gawking at dorms]

Edited 2014-12-16 03:25 (UTC)

[he really just catches a split second of that voice, wafting in through a window

and it can't be true it can't be his voice tree's memory is probably just fucking with him brutally

but he still sticks his head out the window to look down at the source of the voice.]

[well whoever's voice it is out there just shut up]

[CAUSE THEY'RE BUSY STARING RIGHT UP AT YOUR WINDOW]

Mikage...?

[quiet, but not really hard to read his lips on this one]

[actually jumps with excitement, waving both arms over his head]

Tempest! It's Tempest!

Mikage?!

[just. jumps out the fucking window to tackle him.]

[twenty pounds means CATCHABLE and HUGGABLE]

Hey, buddy!

Edited 2014-12-16 03:53 (UTC)

Mikage Mikage Mikage holy shit it's you it's really really-

[clings tightly, inhaling deeply as if to confirm]

[hugging to cuddling and petting and holding tight wow shh shhhh]

The one and only. I smell alright? Smell good?

[is just a plain Day 416 Mikage. silver braclet, smelling more strongly of Kitsune now, has one of Firebird's feathers braided into his hair, and is just. very obviously fresh from an average aather.]

[kind of a breathless laugh, a little hysterical but nuzzling him enthusiastically]

You smell like you and like fox, so yeah, pretty good.

[Tempest's so different now, all scarred with long heavy hair and dragon horns and a smile on his face so wide it almost hurts.]

Blame my patron for that, she's a snuggler.

[cuddling hard and SO HAPPY to see Tempest, you could almost miss the side-glances at his horns, the flickers of confused alarm at his scars]

[he also does look to be visibly like ten years older, but details]

Foxes tend to be, somehow.

[pulling back enough to look at Mikage as if checking for differences and memorizing him at the same time, framing his face with both hands]

Got something on my face?

Just your face.

[kisses his cheek.]

[///]

Wait ten seconds and there's gonna be tears on it.

No don't cry.

Nope, gonna cry. Guaranteed countdown.

If you cry I'll cry!

Then I'll cry more.

Horns aren't Kiriko's style, Tempest. It's been a while, hasn't it?

It's been... a really long time.

[points at his face]

[SEE I TOLD YOU]

[TEARS ARE HAPPENING]

How long?

Uhhhh, hundred and five years? Maybe hundred and ten?

That's too long!

No shit!

[reaches for Tempest's face, patting his cheeks and then stroking into his hair, touching his horns. it's a little while before he speaks, running through different options in his head]

[but, not asking about any of them]

I'm sorry.