[video | action open to Heimdall]

[whatagoodgirl]

I... I don't understand...

[The small, slender Japanese girl with the high ponytail and downtilted eyes might be familiar to some. She's standing in front of Heimdall House with a newcomer's letter in her hands, dressed in the same uniform as the first time she arrived, but it doesn't quite fit right anymore - she's gotten taller since she made it, started to fill out a little. At least in Asgard, which proves that she hasn't been completely reset.

The confusion on her face starts to contort into alarm as her words confirm that truth.]

Isn't - it over? I remember Freyr - when he - wasn't that the end? But now it's like none of it ever happened... the letter, and the maid, and everything looks just like the first time...

[And now edging into panic as she leans against one of the house's walls, wrapping her arms around her middle and shivering.]

What's going on?!

((ooc: and the thing is done ;D))

Comments

and i JUST got home and needed to get to backtags but i lost the ability to can???

[hushedpenance]

(( also VIDEO POST but will probably become action ))

[ Is this real life? Or just a trick, a curse? Hallucinations like Castiel had suffered? That's impossible, he thinks. No, she died. Don't hope for something like a fool! Thinking you can hear her voice again... What?]

I don't...

I never... [Can he dare to hope? It takes all of his strength because oh god he had just finished resigning himself to the loss of Nakama, and...]

... W-welcome home. [Is it an ideal home? Maybe not, but it's better than death... It's better than nothingness. Right..?]

<33333 I WILL STEAL ALL OF THE TAGS.

[whatagoodgirl]

[The shock keeps stinging over and over again, but she has to remind herself that it's because of her - she's the one who told the whole city that she had died back home. No one had any way of knowing how often a person could be revived from their home world.

And there's that word again - home. Neither of them has moved on, or gotten more comfortable in the house without her. They both want her back.]

Thank you, Karu. [Her dark eyes are glistening, but she's not crying yet.] It's good to be back, it really is.

video > audio

[hushedpenance]

[Karu's emotions are so oppressed, especially with Shou being the crybaby that he is, that instead of defaulting to a whimpering cry, he just smiles.

He has the sense to switch to audio when that smile shakes.]

Your bed is made. Whenever you're ready for it. [The bed, the dogs, the house... they kept it up. It meant they didn't get out much and that they worked more often, but they kept it; only friends of Nakama were allowed to visit the room.

Visit. Never use.]

audio

[whatagoodgirl]

Shou didn't leave me a lot of choice about coming back. [Her laugh is shaky, but it's there, to reassure him that it was hardly a matter of choice for her either.] I'll work on getting my job back right away, so that I can still help out with rent and food and everything. I promise.

audio;

[hushedpenance]

He wouldn't, would he. He says he's like "flypaper". [Is that affectionate teasing? Maybe slightly.]

You know where to find it. [The house of course, but Karu and vagueness are friends.] Right?

audio;

[whatagoodgirl]

I do. I'm on my way right now.

[And over to the log?]