[ Yona had become accustomed to waking to troubling dreams in the middle of the night, especially since coming to live in her childhood home once more. It's been something she's been trying to deal with in her own way - with varying degrees of success - but this morning had taken the nightmares to an entirely new degree, witnessing the deaths of two of her closest companions.
She wakes, shaken and shaking, face buried in her hands to stave off the flow of tears. Only to realize...
She can feel them.
Not just Shizuo any longer, but two other presences as well, connected to her as Shizuo is, as her shinki. And infinitely more familiar.
Jae-Ha. Hak.
She stays frozen there for too long, the visions of their deaths replaying in her memory, not giving her enough cluesas to when and why and while she tries to stay quiet enough that Shizuo won't overhear her, she's probably not successful as she breaks down at the unwanted knowledge.
So it is that it takes her a while to make her way to the Training yard, where she'd been notified the new shinki and gods would be assembled to be found by their partners. There are shadows under her eyes, which are still a little red and puffy despite her best attempts to disguise the signs of her earlier tears. But otherwise she looks carefully composed, even if the appearance of it might be rather fragile at best.
When she doesn't immediately spot either of the people she's looking for, she closes her eyes and focuses on the subconscious pull she can now feel, letting it draw her to where she needs to be.
And she finds him not long after. Hak. Sprawled in the gardens with a towel over his face and apparently napping, as if he didn't have a care in the world.
She wants to cry all over again.
Instead, she approaches with a light step and crouches beside him, not reaching out to touch him yet, but calling his name to see if he will wake. ]
are you prepared?
She wakes, shaken and shaking, face buried in her hands to stave off the flow of tears. Only to realize...
She can feel them.
Not just Shizuo any longer, but two other presences as well, connected to her as Shizuo is, as her shinki. And infinitely more familiar.
Jae-Ha. Hak.
She stays frozen there for too long, the visions of their deaths replaying in her memory, not giving her enough cluesas to when and why and while she tries to stay quiet enough that Shizuo won't overhear her, she's probably not successful as she breaks down at the unwanted knowledge.
So it is that it takes her a while to make her way to the Training yard, where she'd been notified the new shinki and gods would be assembled to be found by their partners. There are shadows under her eyes, which are still a little red and puffy despite her best attempts to disguise the signs of her earlier tears. But otherwise she looks carefully composed, even if the appearance of it might be rather fragile at best.
When she doesn't immediately spot either of the people she's looking for, she closes her eyes and focuses on the subconscious pull she can now feel, letting it draw her to where she needs to be.
And she finds him not long after. Hak. Sprawled in the gardens with a towel over his face and apparently napping, as if he didn't have a care in the world.
She wants to cry all over again.
Instead, she approaches with a light step and crouches beside him, not reaching out to touch him yet, but calling his name to see if he will wake. ]
Hak?