[ 05 ] ✿✿ [ Closed ]

[angramaintsu]

Characters: Dark Rin & Archer
Setting: Floor 32
Time: Backdated to December 28th
Format: Quick
Summary: Rin "disappears" and Archer hunts her down.
Warnings: Implied things

[ A wonderful night. That is what took place the eve prior and now she lays curled up in a clearing of the forest. It's cold, but she doesn't find it to be bothersome. There's only peace to be found as a result of what took place.

This is why she doesn't think of her Servant. In these woods, she feels a peace that she's never felt in her life. Maybe at one time when she was a little girl curled up in a bed alongside her sister, but since then? There was that time with her Archer.

No, her Servant. Groggily, she'll be lifting her head with hair full of branches and leaves without bothering to brush them free. For now, she needs to find him before he finds her. On her own terms. Unfortunately for her, it'll be Rin with E-Rank Luck instead of her Servant. ]

Comments

[swordedpast]

...I can't hurt you.

[ He says it simply, but after a moment, he realizes his mistake and hurries to add, with an awkward glance at her: ]

I am your Servant, after all. I'd be doing a bad job of the role if I hurt you.

[angramaintsu]

Sometimes a Servant has to hurt their Master in order to protect them from an even greater threat.

[ Adding on playfully: ] Maybe I really like it when my Servant is a bit forceful ufufu.

[swordedpast]

Is that so?

[ Inwardly, he congratulates himself on not stammering. He had to catch his breath for a moment there to avoid it. ]

Then you won't mind if I take that.

[ And he reaches out to try to take his capelet back. Except he's still not quite looking at her, so he winds up awkwardly grabbing at her shoulder instead. Oops. ]

--I meant my coat.

[angramaintsu]

[ ?1 ] Wha-?

Your coat... [ Even if he's holding onto her shoulder, she does find the courage to look up towards him. ] It's pretty chilly, so why don't I wear it until we make it out of this floor?

[swordedpast]

[ Where she finds courage, he loses it. In an instant, he lets go of her shoulder, as if its head was suddenly scalding him. ]

That's only natural. In that case, why don't we leave?

[ He's suddenly all too eager to be free of the heavy weight of his ordinary humanity, here in this forest without powers. ]

[angramaintsu]

[ Rising to her feet, she nods in agreement as her hands move to hold the fabric back up over her shoulders. ]

Let's leave together, Archer. [ Expecting him to fall into place at her side, she'll begin walking off without waiting. ]

[swordedpast]

[ And without another word, he falls into place behind her and at her side, like a shadow trailing after her. It feels right. It feels right despite what he's learned here, and even though she's not his Rin.

She's still the only thing he has to follow in this place, so he follows her. ]