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[motherloving]

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... ]

Comments

[coldhand]

Doesn't hurt you're not shy.

[QM does things to people apparently]

[starspangledman]

[ducks his head a little]

Is that it?

[coldhand]

Not it. Just... it doesn't hurt.

[starspangledman]

I guess that's true.

[coldhand]

Not that I mind. Someone has to do it.

[starspangledman]

[pause]

Are we still talking about sex?

[coldhand]

Sort of. [yes? or maybe no] Someone has to be confident.

[starspangledman]

[he's still blushing]

I don't know if confident's the word... It just feels better going after something I can have.

[coldhand]

As opposed to what?

[starspangledman]

Finding a way out. Thinking about what happened back home.

[coldhand]

Yeah, I'm sure breaking the bed sounds easier than that.

[starspangledman]

[flushes dark]

It's—you know, it's something to focus on.

[coldhand]

I don't mind.

[starspangledman]

[shakes his head]

I guess that's good for us.

[coldhand]

I'd like to think so? You're happy with it, right?

[starspangledman]

[kisses her]

Yeah. I'm happy.

[coldhand]

I know I'm just one person, but as long as I can... I'll do what I can.

[to distract him. to give him a place to belong. whichever]

[starspangledman]

Thank you, Buck.

[coldhand]

[another little kiss]

Don't mention it.

[starspangledman]

[smiles, kissing back]

It means a lot to me.

[coldhand]

I can tell. You're not subtle.

[starspangledman]

I don't know if I'm trying to hide it...

[coldhand]

Still not subtle.

[starspangledman]

Fair enough.

[coldhand]

We wouldn't be friends if I cared that much about subtlety.