<div class="floatleft">(http://oi65.tinypic.com/10f2rdl.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Shizuma Nori (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=257738.msg12729551#msg12729551)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Track & Field<br/><strong>Time:</strong>Flashback - a few days before school starts, very early morning<br/><strong>With:</strong>Taro<br/><hr/><br/>"Yes, that's true. I found three of them in my room when I arrived. Their fit was perfect," Shizuma admitted to Taro with a happy smile on her lips. She nodded yes gratefully and reached for the offered water bottle. As she took ahold of it her fingers brushed against his lightly in a that was almost a caress. This brought a pink hue back to her cheeks as Taro ran the towel through his hair and over his face. She hoped that kept him from noticing her flushed face as she listened to what he was saying.<br/><br/>"No, I would never have chosen this fate," Shizuma said in response to him. A heavy sigh accompanied her words and both mixed  with the wind in a disharmonious way. It grew into a growling pop like an angry crack of thunder that unsettled Shizuma. She held up her hands in a gesture that begged the wind's pardon as she said, "I'm not complaining, honest.  I just can't deny the fact that life was simpler being a dutiful daughter and good student." Her words were not exactly directed at Taro but didn't exclude him.<br/><br/>Shizum cracked open her water bottle and took a sip. "I'm glad to be out of there and wouldn't wish them on anybody," she mused. "It just wasn't... right... yes. We had to be understood before we could be reintroduced as to the public. 'Safety first!' after all," she said amiably after she took another drink of water. Her words had the singsong quality of the indoctrinated. She looked down then back up into Taro's eyes timidly before murmuring, "you're kind to be so accepting, Taro--sama. It's nice to meet you," she adds in a heartfelt way that turns it into something more than a simple platitude that revealed both the high esteem she'd come to hold him in and the deep loneliness she'd been living with recently as his little display of human rights kindness meant so much to her.