look your leftover icons were really unfortunate something had to be done

[ Haruka doesn't really need to be told. maybe that's why it's funny. Michiru really would make the perfect wife -- beautiful, refined, polite, a good homemaker -- but she can't picture it at all. it doesn't feel right, somehow, the thought of her with a man.

scared that she'll get over you, is it?, a voice needles at the back of her mind, but she immediately shuts it down. what a nonsensical thought. ]

Guess we'll have to wait and see. [ a subtle tenseness hangs in the air in place of the words unspoken: 'if we make it through the end of the world'.

that's not something they can joke about. ]