[While Usagi has made new bonds and new connections here, the proof of that along the skin of her back, there are bonds that run deeper than anything Trench can create. Internally, if she focuses, she has a set of strings before her, there a handful of bright ones and then thousands more that glow much fainter. Two, at the moment are shining bright and if she pulls on them, she can locate the people they're attached to in moments.
The other strings, if she pulls or plucks them, merely lead her to the ocean. They glow but they are duller, but now? NOW, another string is glowing, bright and strong and it resonates within her.
She hurries to follow the string, and she can feel it get stronger and stronger as it leads her to the beach. She can feel endlessness, cycles, beginnings, and most of all... ends. She begins to run.
She runs and runs. She senses Hotaru before she sees her. When she does, she's quick and gathers up Hotaru in her arms in a fierce hug, holding her tight.]
Arrival
The other strings, if she pulls or plucks them, merely lead her to the ocean. They glow but they are duller, but now? NOW, another string is glowing, bright and strong and it resonates within her.
She hurries to follow the string, and she can feel it get stronger and stronger as it leads her to the beach. She can feel endlessness, cycles, beginnings, and most of all... ends. She begins to run.
She runs and runs. She senses Hotaru before she sees her. When she does, she's quick and gathers up Hotaru in her arms in a fierce hug, holding her tight.]
Hotaru...