He came to find me too.

He came.

It’s like some kind of fate or miracle that he feels the way I do. And he’s said it. And I said it. He’s here now, with me. He’s asleep, having spent the whole day yesterday travelling to find me. We’re in an inn together and his hair is soft and dark. I long to continue to run my fingers through it.

Forever.

I could live like this forever.

But life, as it always is, ending. So I’d settle for as long as we have in our mortal lives, so long as he’ll stay with me on through it all.

I was rereading a few of the passages. What she felt was so beautiful. So comforting.

He’d been the one she’d seen at a distance. He’d come back for her. He’d been soaked in the rain, his hair a wild mess, but he had done it.

And that was what counted the most in her words, and in her mind. That he came for her. That they felt the same way about each other. They’d truly found the love of a lifetime. Together. They’d raced to find each other together, meeting halfway.

And it was so beautiful that I could’ve cried like a baby, like I was missing it from my own life.

But really… what must that kind of feeling truly be like?

To have someone race across a stormy land, just to take your hand? Just to say ‘I love you’ or even just to tuck a strand of your hair behind your ear and gently say that they miss you even though it’s been less than a few days?

It’s honestly perfect. Ryuu. Me. Travelling here and there. We were holding hands as he bought a pair of chopsticks for me. I’d like to wear them in my hair rather than eat with them, but I suppose they can do both, if I properly clean them. Haha.

I said I’d put them in my hair and he did it for me, gazing at me with those eyes… so tenderly…

Oh, my heart.

My love.

This had to be some kind of blissful happiness.

I never knew eating together was this fun.

Ugh…

I sighed.

It was too precious.

I was rooting for them, honestly. They deserved every bit of happiness they found. Everyone did.

And they were funny, I thought, smiling a bit, unable to really contain the bit of laughter that left me. Chopsticks in her hair? He actually put them in her hair! It was so cute!

It was like I was floating in their love bubble with them as I read this.

In some ways, I felt I could truly step into her shoes, in just wishing for my own Ryuu…

He fell asleep on top of me last night but I only felt a weight so precious to me. This weight meant he was really here with me. It was nice. I felt like I was protecting him, just by holding his sleeping body through the night hours. I’d done it to him so many times before. Was this how it felt to love someone?

Despite all we’ve done, we haven’t marked each other yet. I don’t mind waiting. We have all the time we need. Besides, I think he’s waiting for a special moment – wink-wink. And I can wait for that, just barely.

I was so distracted within the warmth and hope of the pages that I didn’t notice it until it was happening, until I felt a rush of wind and saw a blur of motion out of the corner of my eye.

What the–

My eyes widened as my brain comprehended the impossible. I leaned forward, on instinct, out the window to see what really couldn’t be there. Half of me was practically out the window as I spotted him.

Was it, I thought faintly, was it that plea I made?

Nope.

I had to be hallucinating.

That was the only explanation.

There was no way he was here.

He really couldn’t… be… here…

Fallyn?