[ The last few weeks when Sayo had been cocooned hadn't been easy, but life has gone on, and it surprises Jessica that she was able to go with it. Within a few days, she was playing shows again and taking classes in Gaze. Sayo wouldn't want her to stop her life, she knows that, and she'll wait as long as it takes for her to come back to her.
But that doesn't mean that it's been easy for her either. Life in Trench never is, but now she's more aware than ever that she could lose the girl she loves, and even surrounded by Himiko and other people that she loves, it's a profoundly lonely feeling. Not least of all because she knows that this could happen to them too.
Jessica is still in science class when the message hits the network, so it's a good half hour before she actually sees it. She might have forgotten entirely about her birthday if it weren't for the people around her reminding her, and right now it's hardly the most pressing thing on her mind she finally sees her girlfriend's face again, tired and vaguely grumpy, but awake, moving around, really returned to her.
She's at the nearest lantern in a flash, and once she's warped to the house they share, she's still running, overcome by excitement and relief. She sees her there in the living room, and tears come to her eyes at the confirmation that she hadn't just hallucinated that message. She outright charges her, laughing joyously as she throws her arms around her girlfriend, her oldest friend, heedless of any nasty goop that might still be in her hair, and holds her as tight as she can. Nothing in Trench is certain, but after all the ordeals that they've gone through, through mistakes and ignorance and sins and forgiveness, they have each other. ]
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But that doesn't mean that it's been easy for her either. Life in Trench never is, but now she's more aware than ever that she could lose the girl she loves, and even surrounded by Himiko and other people that she loves, it's a profoundly lonely feeling. Not least of all because she knows that this could happen to them too.
Jessica is still in science class when the message hits the network, so it's a good half hour before she actually sees it. She might have forgotten entirely about her birthday if it weren't for the people around her reminding her, and right now it's hardly the most pressing thing on her mind she finally sees her girlfriend's face again, tired and vaguely grumpy, but awake, moving around, really returned to her.
She's at the nearest lantern in a flash, and once she's warped to the house they share, she's still running, overcome by excitement and relief. She sees her there in the living room, and tears come to her eyes at the confirmation that she hadn't just hallucinated that message. She outright charges her, laughing joyously as she throws her arms around her girlfriend, her oldest friend, heedless of any nasty goop that might still be in her hair, and holds her as tight as she can. Nothing in Trench is certain, but after all the ordeals that they've gone through, through mistakes and ignorance and sins and forgiveness, they have each other. ]
Sayo! You're really, really back!