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[agleam]

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[agleam]

[it's hard not to let his voice crack, after that, but he at least tries to stay steady as he says—]

You, too.

[he's seen so much more.]

[unsaid]

[ . . . ]

I will walk alongside you, for as long as I can. Until we are able to see our loved ones again.

[that is his promise.

but.]

... and you can shed your tears, and know they are only testament to the generosity of your heart.

[agleam]

[he tries very hard not to cry despite that offer, but there's still something impossibly tight, aching, about his voice when he speaks.]

I don't know if... I don't know if I can. See them again, I mean. They're all gone.

[unsaid]

[mikazuki's hand continues to rub against rupert's back, but his voice is steady when he says - ]

... you will.

At one point or another... you will. For there are people who we are meant to be with, even if it is not in this life.

And until then... carrying what pieces of them you have with you - that is how their memory lives on.

[agleam]

[he's quiet for a moment, thinking.]

Do you believe in that, then? An afterlife.

[unsaid]

Afterlife... Reincarnation... Where the soul goes after it departs one plane - because surely it is never truly gone.

I am only a spirit myself and so I offer no certainties... but I believe more in reunions than I do farewells.

[agleam]

...A reunion would be nice.

[and, as ever, he thinks there's nothing wrong with hoping. he seems to be calming down, at least enough to say:]

What I saw... Do you want to talk about it?

[unsaid]

[ . . . not really but,]

... that is not the Tsurumaru Kuninaga you know.

[that just seems most important]

So I only hope you will not allow that to affect your understanding of him.

[agleam]

[...]

They have the same name, but they're different?

[unsaid]

... we come from different Citadels. Homes. Our masters who summoned us are different, though the blades themselves are meant to be the same throughout history.

He knows another Mikazuki Munechika, just as I know another Tsurumaru Kuninaga.

But it is as I said.... there are some individuals who we are meant to be with.

[agleam]

...Yeah. Destiny, right?

[but all the same...]

I'm sorry you had to go through that.

[unsaid]

[ ? ]

What is it that you are apologizing for?

[agleam]

Not - the kind of sorry where I did something wrong, just... It seems really hard. To witness something like that and never be able to do something about it.

[unsaid]

[ . . . . he smiles faintly at that, but it's a little rueful]

.... it is the push and pull.

Of being told that history must be one way... and yet also believing that it may be able to shift into something different, if just given the chance.

[agleam]

Have you ever seen it do that? I mean... change into something different.

[unsaid]

... parts of it - but never enough to disrupt the future in any substantial way.

For that is not allowed.