[LOG] Just you, me, and the stars || Mur/Jo

[Tahja Estes]

Laughing as they played, playing to his advances, returning them, weaving around one another. Once finally to the other side again she pulled herself along side of him after a light shake. With that she settled with him gladly, resting against him. "This is nice... I love you, Muroki." She smiled, lifting her eyes to the sky, but caching a bonus view of his profile in the process. "So many stars..."  

[Tahja Estes]

“And I love you.” Muroki returned his gaze to his queen – something made him add a hint of a question to it. Not that his love was in question, it never would be, but even though he and Johari said they loved each other so often…something just made him wonder what she was thinking about. So many stars, yes, but now his attention was firmly fixed with her. Intuition maybe.  

[Tahja Estes]

"I love watching them come out like this when the sun goes down..." She continued, picking up on his attention to where she was taking the conversation. They always had been good at reading each other that way, and now she felt excitement building up again with the news she was about to share, somehow managing to disguise it for now. "Even if you watch with all your attention, they come out in small bunches until suddenly it looks almost like the sky is being lit up with warm silver spots all over, connecting to one another like families, telling stories..."

They're traveling band had started out small, and if you compared it to the numbers they had now... The new members, new litters always seemed to come in sets of no less than two and no more than six until now.

"Our four little stars are all grown and shining on their own now..." She shifted her stare away from the sky to hold his gaze, sure that he'd catch exactly what she meant, now, that he'd make the connection. "... but already there are new little ones waiting for their turn to come out and add to our story."  

[Tahja Estes]

Muroki followed along with what Johari was saying easily enough, they had had ample practice time to get used to each other's way of phrasing and hinting at things. As she spoke his questioning smile slowly became less questioning and more brilliant. He felt like roaring triumphantly or going to the shrine to give thanks or running off to tell everyone the good news to fetching her those stars out of the sky to simply kissing Johari.

Some of those things would not be wise at this hour, some were impossible, others could wait so he simply settled for that last one.

~ FIN