[ This is one of the things Lune likes about the sign language: what with her still-growing vocabulary, there’s less hedging, less polite padding. She doesn’t have the fluency to talk in circles around a matter, so she cuts right to the heart of it instead.
They rise from the floor, and it shouldn’t feel as monumental as it does. Kimiko has extended the invitation to come over, several times; and Lune’s always found some excuse, some exceedingly sensible-sounding reason, to defer and put it off and only drop her friend off as far as the threshold. Lune’s never stepped foot inside. She could, in fact, count on one hand the number of private homes she’s visited in Panorama.
(Three, and one of them is her own.)
But hot on the heels of the blackout, with the aftertaste of fear still acrid on her tongue and hollowing her out, she decides some adjustments might be needed. Perhaps it’s worth knocking yourself out of your rut, pushing out of the comforting tedium of predictable routine, and taking a little risk —
Even if it’s just this: crossing the threshold of an apartment with a friend, coming in to have some tea and seeing how Kimiko and her other two roommates live. ]
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[ This is one of the things Lune likes about the sign language: what with her still-growing vocabulary, there’s less hedging, less polite padding. She doesn’t have the fluency to talk in circles around a matter, so she cuts right to the heart of it instead.
They rise from the floor, and it shouldn’t feel as monumental as it does. Kimiko has extended the invitation to come over, several times; and Lune’s always found some excuse, some exceedingly sensible-sounding reason, to defer and put it off and only drop her friend off as far as the threshold. Lune’s never stepped foot inside. She could, in fact, count on one hand the number of private homes she’s visited in Panorama.
(Three, and one of them is her own.)
But hot on the heels of the blackout, with the aftertaste of fear still acrid on her tongue and hollowing her out, she decides some adjustments might be needed. Perhaps it’s worth knocking yourself out of your rut, pushing out of the comforting tedium of predictable routine, and taking a little risk —
Even if it’s just this: crossing the threshold of an apartment with a friend, coming in to have some tea and seeing how Kimiko and her other two roommates live. ]