[ Then she feels it-- those tears form his cheeks beginning to stain her shoulder from where they fall. Compared to that frigid, numbing, coldness she feels, it's like a sudden wash of warmth over her, radiating from where they had struck her to spread all over her body. The frost ffrom her skin and armor doesn't just melt, it simply lifts off of her as if the snow has decided to work against gravity, gently floating upwards, and from there each crystal of ice slowly turns into fine wisps of white before fading entirely.
In the brief time she had been frozen, she had almost wondered if it would be better for her to stay this way. It would be like a seal upon herself-- which is how she is supposed to currently be. Hidden from the world, entombed, not to be awakened. That is what he had done with her with her agreement after the War... and it's been years since then.
She isn't supposed to be awake, but now that Akira has once more broken something that should have kept her frozen... she finds that being here, being with others, interacting with them, seeing both of laughter and their tears-- it is something that she's sorely missed. That realization alone could bring her to tears, because how selfish can she be to want something like that, when she ought to be kept away?
Yet, he's successfully melted her frozen state... ]
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In the brief time she had been frozen, she had almost wondered if it would be better for her to stay this way. It would be like a seal upon herself-- which is how she is supposed to currently be. Hidden from the world, entombed, not to be awakened. That is what he had done with her with her agreement after the War... and it's been years since then.
She isn't supposed to be awake, but now that Akira has once more broken something that should have kept her frozen... she finds that being here, being with others, interacting with them, seeing both of laughter and their tears-- it is something that she's sorely missed. That realization alone could bring her to tears, because how selfish can she be to want something like that, when she ought to be kept away?
Yet, he's successfully melted her frozen state... ]