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“I would enjoy continuing to meet up with you,” she admitted. “Even if energy-draining is not involved. You’re a bit of an enigma to me and I feel like, even with your missing memories, there is a lot I can still learn from you if you’re willing to teach me.” One of her very few encounters with Knights nearly ended with her death, however, he was not like them and it surprised her in a rather pleasant kind of way.

“I understand how you feel though.” Meridiana leaned her head back then and looked up at the sky as if it heald answers to the questions he dare not ask. “As the senshi of the succubus how can anyone take my feelings for them as anything serious?” She wondered out loud. “There are times that even I find myself wondering where the line between my feelings and my sphere really is.”

Emotions are such complicated things.

“It doesn’t really matter though,” The lie came so easily and yet it hurt just as much as if someone else had said them. “So long as I can enjoy the company of someone such as yourself I know I’ll make it through ok.” She smiled down at him sincerely then, with her pinkies, sectioned off a part of his hair and split it into three equal parts to weave together into a braid.

Meridiana closed her eyes and leaned into his gentle touch, pulling from it all the warmth and kindness he had to offer. Never in her wildest dreams could she have imagined that the words her heart so desperately wished to hear would come from someone of the opposite faction. While it made her happy to know that someone truly seemed to understand how she felt, it also left a bit of a raw aching inside her chest as well.

“I’ve kissed a lot of people since powering up. But only two… maybe three in all those years have I ever held any true feelings for. None know,” Blue gemstone colored eyes looked down into the field of violets and in them was a hallow sadness associated with revealing such a lonely reality. “But it’s mostly because I don’t truly understand those feelings myself. Only one had ever held me in a way that made me feel like…” She paused, eyes searching for the right words. “Like I was just an ordinary girl again.”

“Sounds silly I know.” Meridiana smiled and made a humming sound that came close to a light laugh but without any humor. “But I guess that’s because we’re both dreamers.” She transferred the three strands of the braid over to one hand then lifted her other to hold his hand in place against her face. It was warm, slightly calloused, yet despite the opposing aura radiating off him, Meri did not want him to let go quite yet.

The trust she had in him was probably because, despite all the things he had offered, her heart seemed to believe it would never happen. That after this evenings’ goodbyes they would part ways and she would never see him again. It was a thought that made her heartache because, in all honesty, she truly wanted to try and help him. Maybe this Ashanite could help be the bridge that allows her to see him again but what if he didn’t want to be involved?

Meridiana folded her hands into her lap and leaned her head against his shoulder. “I don’t feel worthy of your kindness, but I am grateful for it all the same.” The tender kisses he pressed against the top of her head were not of the lustful kind that expected something in return. They brought her back to a similar tender moment with a kind senshi. He had golden-yellow hair and lavender eyes similar to his which made her wonder if they were possibly brothers.

“I want to help you Whisler,” she looked up at him. “I want to help you find your happiness,” she reached up to cup the side of his cheek as she had done earlier “If you truly want to come back to the Negaverse, I will do what I can to try and find away. I’m nowhere as strong as you are, nor do I think I will ever be. But if you’ll let me I want to try.” However, if he were to in turn, or later on down the road, tell her that he was happy, or even content, on remaining as he is now then she would not push him to re-corrupt.

Zinkenite might have answers but she would not ask him unless she was positive it was something Whisler truly wanted.

“Seven p.m. a week from today?” She repeated. Leaning her head against his chest Meridiana pulled from him what warmth and comfort he offered as the thought of cold weather made goosebumps run down her arms despite it being warm outside.

“To my knowledge, I don’t think there is anything going on that day.” At least nothing that couldn’t be moved. “As long as you can promise it will be just you and I, I’ll be there.” There was a nervousness in her tone that suggested something had happened in the recent past that made her wary. But at least she was willing to put herself out there and try to overcome whatever it was that had put that fear in her.

“I trust you, I do. But it’s a bit of a leap of faith, and I’m not sure I’d have the courage to meet up with you if there were other people here too.” A hot spring with a gorgeous view sounded amazing especially with the scorching weather they had been having as of late. A getaway suited for a group of people rather than two strangers learning about each other, trying to become friends.

“We will see what happens when the time comes.” It wasn’t a no but it wasn’t a yes either. Despite her flirty nature and the fact she was also the senshi of the succubus, Meridiana was still a virgin who had never shared a bed with another person.

Sure she had followed both men and women to their hotel rooms or apartments, on invitation after a date, but she had always drained them completely of energy before anything had ever happened. Leaving her unsuspecting dates passed out on the bed from sheer exhaustion with nothing more than sweet dreams of fantasies that never happened. However, with Whistler this would not be an option and that actually made her a bit nervous; even though she hid it well.

“One week, right here.” Meridiana gave his hand a gentle squeeze and took a step back. “I will see you then,” she smiled genuinely. “And thank you for helping me with my quota tonight, I truly appreciate your kindness. My knight in-” she glanced at his outfit since the normal saying didn’t hold true in this case “in purple and fur-trimmed armor.” Sounded as stupid saying it outloud as it did in her head but it made her laugh nonetheless.