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[Either way, it had happened, and so now Dio was here with a cake. And he made his way inside as he was guided, looking around for the coffee table in order to leaver her her cake. Once he found it, he simply set it down, rather daintily for a man of his size.]

There we are. And now we can go, if you'd like... or we can stay for you to have a bit of your cake first.

[It was up to her, really, he wasn't in any rush. For him, the night was young, and he had plenty of time left before he'd be going back to sleep.]

[He is rather graceful, isn't he. She had to take a few moments to step along behind him and just...admire that about him. Well, she might have been admiring a few other things too, but she wasn't going to tell.]

It can wait. It'll give me time to think what to offer you for a drink-or food. Heck, I don't know what you do eat, or can eat or drink besides blood.

[She shrugs at him.]

And I'd hate to stereotype you. You're one of a kind.

[Dio laughed a little bit as he turned back to see her. IT was a fair enough thing to wonder, really. What with how much information circulated about vampires that conflicted with itself.]

Well, I can't process solid foods, but I like to drink different things from time to time.

[Usually alcohol, but he didn't want to do that anymore. His eyes and expression fell a bit at being called 'one of a kind' though.]

I really am... not like anyone else, huh?

[Not even like the other vampires who had been here. But that was a conversation for another day, and Dio just brought a smile back to his face then, offering her his arm.]

Well then, let us find a quiet place among the stars.

[And the only real way to know was to ask the source.]

Then, do you like tea? I could make us some. I might have to go to the depot for coffee. Scratch that, I would.

[Her smile is a little rueful, but it drops, sharpening a bit at his reaction. But she doesn't probe. Not yet. It's not something he wants to talk about, she thinks.]

But so am I. Let's go see the stars.

[She wraps her arm around his, offering a small smile. There's a lot they could talk about, given half a chance. Who knows what they'll discuss in the sky.]

I can't really taste tes, but I would love to indulge in some with you... if it meant your company.

[Dio certainly didn't want to waste this time with sad subjects, so he also let it drop, his sorrow washing from his face as she took his arm into hers. With that, Dio led her along, heading out to the middle of the nearest intersection of rows between houses.

Dio held onto her arm firmly, making certain that she could not slip from his grasp before he bent his knees just a little before pushing up in a bounding leap, taking the two of them into the sky and then allowing them to hang there, above the fortress, above the wasteland and among the stars. He'd heard that they could not go up too high, so he wouldn't push it.]

How is that...?

O-oh.

[This man. This man. He was way too smooth for his own good. She felt herself blush, holding onto him firmly. True, it was just a confirmation that he wanted to spend time with her but...it was something. It felt like something.

Though thoughts of being flustered vanished as he brought them up high. She yipped in surprise, at first, and before long, she was laughing. Laughing and gleeful, her eyes shining as she found herself looking at something so near, and so far away.]

Amazing!

[She giggled a little more. She hadn't done something like this since...well, nothing that she could do with her own power. Not really.]

It'd take me more to get up so high so quickly but-this is just...Dio...

[She glances towards him. She's smiling so much, her face hurts.]

This is wonderful. You're wonderful. Thank you.

[He certainly had his way with words when he wanted to, and he wanted to when he was with Masaki. And even moreso, he meant that. He didn't much care for the taste of about anything aside from blood these days, but he'd be happy to sit with her and sip on tea if it meant they could sit and talk together some more. Tea, coffee, juice, whatever pleased her.

He felt a smile spreading across his lips as he held her in the air, her nearly immediate glee spreading to him. He found himself staring at her as she smiled, looking positively ecstatic at the view above the homes of the other settlers. Truth be told, he'd never really... come up this high before, and as much as he liked to look down upon the others, his eyes were soon drawn up to the Heavens.

It was strange to simply look up at the stars from where they were, but it was nice too.

He turned back to look at Masaki as a soft blush graced the vampire's face at being called wonderful.]

It's just a reflection of your own light, Masaki, I assure you.

[She was charmed. It wasn't hard to jostle the romantic button she had-the one that had a soft spot for compliments, romantic movies, and the like. But wanting to be with her, know her...it warmed her. It might have been easy to tell, with her.

Like her being ecstatic about being so high above, so quickly; how he had made it so the cottages were so far below. But she too found herself drawn to the lights above, elation and the joy of seeing so beautiful anchoring her.

Even in this broken world, it was awe inspiring to behold. Though his compliment made her giggle, and lean against his side.]

What? My light? Never. That would...make you the moon to my sun, wouldn't it?

[Dio beamed at that, as she understood exactly what he was getting at.]

Of course it would.

[He was smiling, no matter what the implications to that were. He could never have a light of his own, and so he reflected the light of others. It was alright, it was simply what he was, and it had it's merits.]

You see the good in me, because you are so good yourself. I can't thank you enough for that. [It was a good thing, as far as he was concerned, and he used the moment to pull her into an embrace. Maybe it would be good to chase a sun across the sky that he might actually manage to catch up to.]

You know, I've never done anything like this before.

[She laughed quietly. Did she really possess such light? She didn't know about that. But did that mean before he was reflecting nothing at all, that he couldn't be good? She wasn't so sure about that.]

I think I see the good in you because you are good. And a bunch of other things too.

[She wrapped her arms around him, pressing her cheek against him. Maybe she would be the sun that would be captured by the moon.]

Hm? Never been this high up before, you mean?

I am certainly trying to be, but I've a ways to go yet.

[A few months of repentance do not a century of evil erase, but it was a start. He smiled down at her, loving the feeling over her arms around his body.]

No, I've been up this high before, though... not here in Between. But I was more referring to coming up just to be here. To see the sky, and take in the world around us.

[And being up this high in Cairo wasn't like being here. Here, the nighttime was only lit by the light of the moon and stars, and it was easy for him to see everything here, unobscured by street lights and neon signs, and rather lonely comparatively. Very few people wandered the streets of the settlement here at night these days. He had noticed the disappearance of the other nocturnal creatures, after all.]

I have never really seen it from this angle.

You're trying. That counts.

[She tells him that, and it might be a few months, but months can turn to years, to centuries. And that can be repentance, and not the angsty kind.]

Really? That's...well, I guess it's easy to forget.

[That there's a naked sky, that they can come up here like this. She didn't really get a chance to do this at home, but she wanted to. It was a little like freedom, light pollution or no. She took in a slow, deep breath, leaning against him more.]

I tried going up during the rain but...that was just a bad idea. I couldn't support myself.

This is better for it anyway.

[Leaning her cheek against a hot guy, looking at the stars and the settlement, What could be better?]

[Dio was still rather uncertain on how he needed to go about his repentance, so he had definitely given thought to various forms of symbolic self-flagellation. That wasn't on his mind right now, however, just happy in this moment. With Masaki pressed against his chest, just floating in the sky as if suspended in water.]

Is it difficult to lift yourself...? [He wondered how that must be. It sounded like it would have taken her a lot of energy to remain suspended, not to mention suspended alongside himself.]

It is better, looking around during the mild weather. Who knows, perhaps this winter we will get snow again, and then we could come look at it again. I think that'd look lovely...

[Helping people was always a good start. But that was another time, when they weren't enjoying each others company high in the air.]

More difficult then usual. But I think it's because it's...well. It's kind of complicated, but let's just say it's nothing like it would be normally.

[They were on place with thin air, so to speak, but she didn't want to get into the details. She wasn't ready to go on about her words weirdness.

Not just with him, but with most people.]

But...I've never come up to the sky when it's snowing before.

[Her expression becomes wondering, and she stares up at the sky, trying to picture it. They could catch snowflakes.]

I'd like that. A lot.

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