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[countermeasures]

[...he's staring.

she would like to believe that it's because he recognizes her, but after such a long time here without anyone else she knows and no clear way home, she's a little afraid to get her hopes up. better to be cautious.

(but what if it is him? what if it's okay to hope?)

skitty, meanwhile, seems completely unbothered - both by the growlithe's attention and jiuqing's unease - and pushes her head into chang geng's hand. vulpix, recognizing another fire type, eases out from behind jiuqing and prances over to sniff at growlithe.]

She can be a bit overly friendly at times.

[...]

...are you on your way somewhere, Sir?

[impurities]

I had been heading along the coastlands, making my way south.

[ chang geng averts his eyes down to the skitty, carefully stroking the normal type's head with his fingers as she bunts up into his hand. she's cute, and it feels... right, for jiuqing. the thought almost makes him smile, to think of her as the little white cat back in the prism, but he keeps it to himself as he tries not to focus on the longing.

he misses great liang. he misses gu yun, shen yi. he misses cao niangzi, ge banxiao, liao ran. he's missed percy, vax, ruby.

he's missed jiuqing. he's missed her so much, and he hates the fact that he's been unable to find a way home, or even to the prism where the gates to other worlds might solve that problem.

but chang geng looks up at her as his growlithe returns the sniffs to the vulpix, eyes scanning her face.

it's dangerous to hope. but perhaps the way she looks at him... ]

... is there perhaps something on my face, miss?

[countermeasures]

[the skitty makes another pleased sound as she receives the pets that are, quite frankly, her due; once that's done, she winds her way around chang geng's ankles once more before trotting back to jiuqing's side. her vulpix, meanwhile, allows the growlithe to sniff before batting one paw at his side. bap.

maybe this would be easier if she was watching the pokemon instead of watching him. but her gaze doesn't leave his face, not until he looks up and catches her staring; that's her cue to avert her eyes, feeling a little foolish.

surely he would have called her by name had he recognized her, wouldn't he? she really shouldn't get her hopes up.

(they're so similar in so many ways. today, right here, it's a detriment - because they're each guarded, too guarded to allow themselves to hope in a way that would clear this misunderstanding up immediately. they've both learned the lesson of how dangerous hope can be a little too well.)

she lowers her head in apology, her heart aching.]

Ah, no... My apologies, sir. I shouldn't have stared.

[foolish. she knows well enough by now that everyone she's meeting here has lived in hisui all along.]

But what a coincidence - I was headed south myself, once I'd finished gathering these herbs. Perhaps it might be safer to go together...? I'm just about done.