When that time comes, there will be confusion over the lack of hostility, but with nothing said, he may very well attribute it to the threat from his Aunt Agatha to pursue charges for hate crimes – which would more deeply stain their records for the rest of their lives.
Benjiro welcomes her closer with a subtle shift to help accommodate the position, that closeness giving him an unconscious cue to slow his breathing and relax the tension from his shoulders. The intensity of his parents is enough to put him on guard even from memory. As he settles more, he leans his head over to rest against her own.
“So was I,” he confesses. Bringing his other hand over to lay over their joined hands, he addresses the fear directly, “Ever since they found out about that memory loss, it’s been on my mind. I’ve been considering possible plans to attenuate the effects, and before anything else happens, it might be worth pursuing in an attempt. Nothing too complicated with careful wording.”
“It’s hard to deny ourselves, and if we were to record a message together at the train station just before departure, we could ride to a nearby city and back for a day trip. That would take us out of the zone, and if I calculate the timing of when that would occur, I can set a reminder on my phone to look into my videos and watch it with you once we’ve lost our memory. If we give ourselves tickets to go somewhere together, or a map marked for a location with an itinerary, it might be enough to have a date together outside the barrier. Of course the first time we might need to consider travelling individually so that we can call each other on the train to talk after we watch such a video message.”
“Hearing you here first hand in a phone call should be convincing… Especially for me since I had already had a crush on you for a while before the aurora.”
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Benjiro welcomes her closer with a subtle shift to help accommodate the position, that closeness giving him an unconscious cue to slow his breathing and relax the tension from his shoulders. The intensity of his parents is enough to put him on guard even from memory. As he settles more, he leans his head over to rest against her own.
“So was I,” he confesses. Bringing his other hand over to lay over their joined hands, he addresses the fear directly, “Ever since they found out about that memory loss, it’s been on my mind. I’ve been considering possible plans to attenuate the effects, and before anything else happens, it might be worth pursuing in an attempt. Nothing too complicated with careful wording.”
“It’s hard to deny ourselves, and if we were to record a message together at the train station just before departure, we could ride to a nearby city and back for a day trip. That would take us out of the zone, and if I calculate the timing of when that would occur, I can set a reminder on my phone to look into my videos and watch it with you once we’ve lost our memory. If we give ourselves tickets to go somewhere together, or a map marked for a location with an itinerary, it might be enough to have a date together outside the barrier. Of course the first time we might need to consider travelling individually so that we can call each other on the train to talk after we watch such a video message.”
“Hearing you here first hand in a phone call should be convincing… Especially for me since I had already had a crush on you for a while before the aurora.”