[Another few blinks. She expected a denial, and then to bring up that there were at least four places Ursula passed by that Kaede could have hidden and pounced from.
Her tail slowed, just twitching and curling on itself at the tip instead of lashing like a feathered pendulum.
Kaede even forgot to protest losing her humanity as if she'd had any to begin with.]
Friend?
[She wasn't disparaging Ursula for saying that, not with Kaede's voice so bewildered. The word seemed so...alien to say. Unfamiliar and clunky. She'd known Ursula only briefly, and yet...
She'd only known Aiko briefly, too. Even Kouta, when they'd first met as children.
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Her tail slowed, just twitching and curling on itself at the tip instead of lashing like a feathered pendulum.
Kaede even forgot to protest losing her humanity as if she'd had any to begin with.]
Friend?
[She wasn't disparaging Ursula for saying that, not with Kaede's voice so bewildered. The word seemed so...alien to say. Unfamiliar and clunky. She'd known Ursula only briefly, and yet...
She'd only known Aiko briefly, too. Even Kouta, when they'd first met as children.
Did that make them friends?]