coastal | [ kara & lili are romance, somehow ]

[ human hearts... do they really have to be so complicated? Kara's already experienced some of it, between those two years as a sword warrior and the eight weeks in the village where they'd met, but kara thinks he must still be much simpler at his core than most.

or maybe that's him running from it all, still trying avoid being hurt. he doesn't think that hard on it. ]

...Even if it is complicated. What does that have to do with me being embarrassed or not?

[she shakes her head]

Not much directly... but I don't want you to think that things are going to always be uncomplicated, and we already know everything there is about each other.

[she pauses from cleaning so that she can reach over to set her hand over his - careful to avoid the window of skin so they don't get attached, instead just letting their fingers brush]

But even if everything else changes, we'll stay together. So it'll be fine.

[and it's a little strange to her - to think that she can say that so confidently and without embarrassment but... this is a truth she's not nervous about]

[ he watches their hands brush, frowning. it's... hard, to understand exactly what lili means. he'll never fully understand the human heart, ookurikara thinks, and while the thought of allowing himself to become more attached, even now with the odds probably stacked against him, is terrifying... ]

We said we'd figure it out. So we will.

We will.

[even with everything that the heart feels, and how inconvenient it is. even if lili is embarrassed forever and even if kara never figures it out - ]

So don't forget to rely on me, too. I tell you and Tsurumaru the same thing constantly.

...If you aren't careful, they'll start thinking Tsuru is your suitor, too.

[she

looks like she wants to laugh because she's so fucking rude, and covers her mouth with her hand]

... is that so....

He's almost disgustingly affectionate with his own lover, so I doubt that would even remotely be possible.