<b>RE: A New Fate for the Twins [Razgriz x Karameida x Serenity]</b><br/><br/><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><div style="text-align: center"><a class="link link--external" href="http://liangxinxin.deviantart.com/art/Qingyin-393181862" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#98fb98">Hikaru Kimiko</span></a>​</div></span></span><br/>Patience. She knew the word was on her twins mind, the two shared no secrets. But it was also on Hikaru's mind. She was becoming uncharacteristically impatient. And a practical stubbornness had taken hold in her. She was dismayed to learn how much time and effort the women of this world put into meaningless, pointless activities. Such as changing multiple times a day. After the first couple of days she refused, much to the head maid's displeasure and exasperation. The dress she put on in the morning was the dress she would wear until she retired for the evening, end of discussion.<br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff1493">“It is absolutely ridiculous to change three times a day, how is anything else to be accomplished when it takes so long just to get out of the old clothes let alone put the new ones on?”</span>She argued.<br/><br/>While her tone of voice was patient and not unkind her words were firm and brokered no argument and eventually the maids gave up. She spent her time instead on reading what history books the library contained. For she, as her twin had sensed as well, could feel the darkness in this world. It had taken root and grown in the years in which they had been imprisoned. It had festered in the hole their absence had left, and Hikaru needed to find where it began, to better know what they were up against.<br/><br/>The rest of her time was split between Mortimer, and Tsukiko. She didn't speak to the lord of the house, but she would hold his hand and hum or sing, she sensed his troubled state and sought to calm his turbulent thoughts. She had healed him physically, the rest was up to him. It was harder to try and calm her twin's agitation, for Hikaru shared her fears. She couldn't stand idly by, trapped in this house, and do nothing to stop the spread of darkness washing over the world. A balance needed to be restored, and the gods would not interfere again, it was up to her and Tsukiko.<br/><br/>The tension grew in the twins and around the house until it seemed something had to snap, when finally they were called upon. Her thoughts echoed her twins, though they lacked the irritation, instead the word was filled with relief.<i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff1493">“He will. We'll just answer them as best we can. Whatever may come of it, we need to make certain he understands that we cannot be bound to this house.”</span></i>She replied, her gaze as she met her twins for a moment, burned intensely with the need to balance the evil running rampant through the world.<br/><br/>As soon as they entered the room Hikaru murmured a quick order to the maid who had opened the door, much as she always did when she entered the room, and in a moment the thick drapes were flung wide and the room was bathed in warm sunlight. Though even that couldn't dispel the darkness taking root in the atmosphere.<br/><br/>Hikaru took her twins hand, seeking comfort and hoping to give it as she could feel Tsukiko's own uneasiness. She cringed though when her twin spoke, the words seeming harsh. And nodded as she met her gaze.<br/><br/>Turning back to Mortimer she said,<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff1493">“I'm sure you have questions, and we will answer what we can. But then you must leave this bed and rejoin the world.” </span>Her tone was firm, but not unkind, and she waited in patient silence for the lord of the house to speak.