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WHAT in person for maximum wish power
WHERE by the lake or anywhere
WHEN night of day 140
NOTES it's a tanabata post!

[ Bamboo trees line the shore of the lake tonight, trailing papers from their branches. Each one is inscribed with a wish mysteriously left by...someone. Some of them are generic, like "world peace," and others are kind of weird and random, like, "fishes with candy scales."

But if you touch one, the text on it might turn into one of your wishes. Maybe it's something innocuous, but maybe it's one of your deepest secrets.

Well, maybe you don't go to the lake tonight. In any case, the stars are luminously bright overhead, and looking at them instills you with a strange sense of nostalgia... ]

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Yeah. From what I've seen they're taking the liberty of filling themselves out for you.

Huh... [unsure how feels] So what did you wish for?

[shows her the strip of paper]

A place to belong, I guess.

That's not a bad thing to want. All things considered.

[makes it sound a little like he doesn't have it now though]

No, it's not too bad.

I feel like I'm closer to it, with what I've got here.

Sounds like a good thing.

Yeah, it's good.

Didn't think I'd be saying that about Quiet Mounds.

[are we for real sure this isn't hell?]

[shakes his head]

I didn't think so either. But it's more the people than it is the place.

You mean all your friends are here.

[she saw Sam]

The people I love are here, yeah.

[does that include Sam? hard to tell]

[Bucky will assume that, yes, yes it does. or if it doesn't now, it will before too long]

Sounds like you have a place then to me.

I just mean I'd like it if the place was a little bit less... [a pause, gestures] Claustrophobic?

You don't need more space, do you...?

I'd like it if I felt like I could do something.

Ah... That kind of something.

Yeah.

[shakes his head, reaching for her hand]

Sorry to get down on you.

You didn't get me down. [She takes his hand, tugging him closer] I'm right as rain.

[steps in, putting a hand to her waist]

Right as rain, huh?

More or less.

[wincing just a little]

I'm alright, though.

[tilts his head a bit, he caught that]

You sure? Everything's okay?

I think so? Sort of feels like I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.

[he pauses]

Like one of these days you'll wake up, and everything you've got here will be gone?

Something like that.

[he nods]

I know how it feels. I think it's why I want to keep you and Vas close.