memories of a bygone age

Hotaru

Outside the traffic lights
They turn from green to red

Hotaru sits quietly, busying herself with food and drink, curiously watching on as Sunjata makes his selections. She knows he doubts Alys' abilities, so it means quite a lot for him to give this a try. Not only because she is Hotaru's closest friend, but because her reading had set Hotaru on the path back to Sunjata in the first place - though she'd had no idea at the time, and had assumed the cards were pointing to George after she'd met him. To her, that is all the more reason to believe in the Seer's foretellings.

Content to cross her legs and lean slightly into Sunjata's side in a show of silent support, Hotaru picks at her food and watches the cherry blossoms spin in the air around them. Giving some small illusion of privacy as the beginning of the reading starts to take place.

And as my heart applies the brakes
I reach across the empty bed