[ to be honest, makoto internally flinches every time he catches an eyeful of her scars, but in the same token, they're proof that she's alive, making it so far on nothing less than single-minded resolve. they're horrible, but they don't disfigure her — not like the expression she'd taken on that day in the flood, teeth bared sweet in terrible reminiscing.
it doesn't occur to him to ask her about the scars, either.
at her prompting, he backtracks his timeline to the day the flooding abated, slowing to a crawl — he'd definitely encountered zack and rin, even escaped from a torrential wave with edgeworth in tow, but none of those encounters seemed to fit the bill as much as the message that played through the derelict residential district, the two individuals he'd briefly sighted from a distance.
at the time, approaching them seemed like asking for a death wish. abruptly, his expression fizzles out strangely. ] ... You're alike? Um, what kind of deal did you make with him?
[ it's not the tail itself he's worried about — he can see it now, shimmering translucent through the water, as mesmerizing as oona herself — but the repercussions of making such a peculiar transaction. the price she paid couldn't have possibly been negligible if she received her tail in return for it. ]
no subject
it doesn't occur to him to ask her about the scars, either.
at her prompting, he backtracks his timeline to the day the flooding abated, slowing to a crawl — he'd definitely encountered zack and rin, even escaped from a torrential wave with edgeworth in tow, but none of those encounters seemed to fit the bill as much as the message that played through the derelict residential district, the two individuals he'd briefly sighted from a distance.
at the time, approaching them seemed like asking for a death wish. abruptly, his expression fizzles out strangely. ] ... You're alike? Um, what kind of deal did you make with him?
[ it's not the tail itself he's worried about — he can see it now, shimmering translucent through the water, as mesmerizing as oona herself — but the repercussions of making such a peculiar transaction. the price she paid couldn't have possibly been negligible if she received her tail in return for it. ]