 Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?
Ash shook her head, then nodded. "I carried them before I knew how to. But I guess I learned how to from having to hold them all the time? That's a dangerous way to learn things, I think." What an interesting metaphor they were using right now. She continued to twirl the pen, mind somewhere else.
Ash was aware that Mitsuki carried salt around, so she paid little notice to it. She paid little notice to anything really, until it became clear to her that she had been asked something. It took her a good thirty seconds to figure out what the question was, during which she was silent and appeared to be looking at something that disturbed her. "A few years. 5, 4, 3... Pretty much every year before now." She thought about it. "Four years."
"Four." She gave no explanation for the revision. |