[While the trip into the labyrinth had felt agonizingly slow, filled with anxiety and creeping fear, the exit feels smooth and easy. Akira's face breaks into a wide smile and it's like the sun bursting through the clouds. As it was when she met him, as it has been as she's gotten to know him, and as it is now as he leads her away from danger.]
I'm glad I met you too, Akira-san.
[Here, home- wherever it doesn't matter. She's glad to have met him.
When they finally step out, when the final brick realigns behind them closing the entry, Chihaya pulls Akira into a tight hug. She never did this back home because it felt like too much. Like if she had actually embraced him like she has wanted to so many times she'd reveal he was really just a dream of a softer life. One where she could have hope.
He's solid in her arms. She wants to linger but that is where her courage fails as she used it all up to hug him in the first place. Chihaya lets go of him and beams.]
Wherever you are will always be the right place for me.
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I'm glad I met you too, Akira-san.
[Here, home- wherever it doesn't matter. She's glad to have met him.
When they finally step out, when the final brick realigns behind them closing the entry, Chihaya pulls Akira into a tight hug. She never did this back home because it felt like too much. Like if she had actually embraced him like she has wanted to so many times she'd reveal he was really just a dream of a softer life. One where she could have hope.
He's solid in her arms. She wants to linger but that is where her courage fails as she used it all up to hug him in the first place. Chihaya lets go of him and beams.]
Wherever you are will always be the right place for me.