Long legs were a blessing! It didn’t take long for her to reach Sora once he stopped and turned around, though she supposed after so long cooped up in the hospital she was starting to get out of shape. She was a little out of breath by the time she came to halt in front of him.

A “hey” left her before she could think of something better. Not very eloquent, maybe, it was the best she could do. Once she had taken a breath, she pressed her gloved hands together in front of her beseechingly. “I’m fine!” she said. The answer to Sora’s unspoken question was “not long,” because some of Tsubaki’s normally soft-spoken demeanor seemed to be missing that morning, leaving her responses more direct than usual. “ How are you, though? Are you feeling okay today?”

It had been difficult to get a good reading in the dark of night, but now that it was daytime Tsubaki could honestly say that Sora didn’t quite like his usual self…