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The Park; Late Sunday Night.

It took just a night of having them out to make Setsuna realize that she hadn't used her wings in a very, very long time. She'd forgotten how much they could hurt after so much disuse; putting them back in for the night hurt, which made made cuddling with Jude after the party difficult, but thankfully still doable, although, once he fell asleep, the pain was so acute that she remained awake and uncomfortable. They wanted to be used, not just displayed. So, still in her white dress, Setsuna carefully crawled out of bed, being very careful not to disturb him, and slipped outside. Her wings unfurled again easily and, with a deep breath, she set off for a late night flight, the moonlight guiding her way...

...It'd been so long...It felt...so good...

...but it was a lot of work. Setsuna made it to the park before she needed a break, carefully landing and perching herself on a bench, feet carefully poised and balanced on the edge of the back and she sat looking over the pond, wings stretching behind her. She sniffed, realizing that she was crying a little. She wasn't sure if it was from the pain of using her wings again, or the beauty of it.

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Ranma was out on a walk with ~~plot device~~Mizu. He stops when he happens to look up, catching the view of the angelic Setsuna in the lamp light. He can't really react for a few moments. Mizu tugs on the leash to get closer. Big birdy friend yay! If it weren't for Mizu's loud barking Ranma might have simply stared then turned back. He wasn't sure he could talk to her when she was looking so... beautiful...

The barking seemed to have set off some almost animalistic impulse in Setsuna; the moment it cut through the quiet night air, she flinched, and her feathers stretched out sharply before she sprung from the bench to fly away. But her more rational part clicked in after she was in the air a moment, turning slowly, wings flapping, in the air to see if it were just a stray dog, or it...

"Oh," Setsuna blinked as she looked down, and then slowly lowered herself back to the ground, landing softly. "Ranma. //You...startled me...Well, Mizu did, anyway."// She gave a nervous smile down at the dog; she hadn't forgotten about the incident when she was crow...

//Se... Setsuna...// He looks even more astonished at her as she comes closer. He takes one step forward, as if to try to be assertive, blush still covering his cheeks. //Ya look so... p-p-prety tonight... I went ta look up at the moon but I saw ya instead... an' I think that... right now you're... even more beautiful...//

He probably had only noticed her instead because, with the white wings, the white dress, the white skin, Setsuna practically seemed to glow in the moonlight. But the illusion was altered a bit as a blush turned her face from white to red. //"M...more beautiful?"// Her scoff of contempt was not actually contemptuous at all, but light, quiet as she looked down at the ground. She took his words to mean even more beautiful than usual...as if she could be beautiful usually. Ha... //"That...that's just a trick of the light, probably...."//

//No... it can't be... What I see right now ain't a trick...// He only can look at her with almost sad eyes.

If Setsuna could actually look at him, she might have noticed. What was he saying? How...coincidental was it that he'd be here, now, and how sudden it seemed that he was there and saying all these things to her. It was...a little jarring. She wasn't sure how to handle it.

//"I...I guess that means my costume's a success, huh?"// She looked up with a lame smile, a nervous little laugh. He couldnt' possibly mean what he was saying, right? He was just...being nice to her, or something....That's it. Being nice to her to make up for Mizu scaring her like that. That was it.

//What... do ya mean...?// He looks slightly lost...

Setsuna blinked. Did he think she was just prancing around in a pretty white dress and her wings for the fun of it?

Well, that was partially true, but she wasn't going to admit to it. //"My costume. For Halloween."// She smiled a little. //"I'm an angel, see? Technically, it is a costume..."//

//Halloween...? I did see a lot of people in weird clothes today... What's that...?//

Blink, blink. //"It...it's a holiday. Where everyone dresses up in costumes and go to haunted houses and get candy...and...well, it's not a very logical holiday, is it? But it is a lot of fun. It's technically not until the 31st of October, but there was a big celebration for it today."//

//So... you're... an angel...~~Don't you worry Setsuna... you're my angel every day...~~//

Setsuna nodded. //"Right. For Halloween."// She smiled a little. //"Kind of a cop-out of a costume, I know, but no one seemed to call me out on it, so that's good."//

It was either the angel or the bunny suit. And she was not wearing the bunny suit.

Impulsive, Setsuna shivered for a moment, the chill of the night reminding her how thin the white dress was, being really quite a summer dress in all respects. The shiver started in her shoulders and went rippling through her wings, all the way to the very tips of her feathers as they spread themselves out magesticly. They were enjoying being out, having so much room to stretch.

//I really... do like your wings Setsuna.. I know you can never really like em... but I think they're amazing...// Ack when you catch him off guard he's awfully candid. And boy is he blushing.

Setsuna certainly wasn't lacking on the blushing either. And she was pretty sure her eyes would be trained on the ground a little past Ranma's feet all night if this kept up. //"I...I guess their not that bad. I...I haven't had them out in so long; I've forgotten how much I like flying..."//

That shiving from before made him really want to just pull her close... but he's trying hard to banish that thought... //I thought ya might have already gotten rid of them... since 's been so long...//

//"Yeah...."// Setsuna's eyes drifted upward now, toward the sky. //"I dunno. The whole...thing has been an issue in such a long time. I've kinda stopped going to see Yuuko. I'm sort of discovering on my own to be normal, despite all of the stuff wrong with me...."//

//'m glad... I like ya the way ya are...// Cheesey but it's how he really feels...

Setsuna smiled softly, dropping her head again as she found herself blushing. Her wings seemed to stretch out as if agreeing with Ranma. Her shoulders shifted slightly as they did so; it felt so strange to feel them shifting, pulling the muscles of her back like that. She wondered if they'd always feel awkward or if it was just because she never used them anymore. Maybe she should more often...

//"Thank you, Ranma,"// she said softly.

//No need ta thank me... 'm happy.. that sometimes I get ta tell ya.. that I...// Love you. Can't you just tell her Ranma...? She already knows but... it's still hard to say...

Finally, Setsuna looked at Ranma; she wanted to read his face. Why was he being so nice to her? So complimentary? Could she have possibly had been right, when she tried on this dress that afternoon and thought to herself that she did look pretty, almost even beautiful, a thought she quickly shooed out of her head at the moment. But Jude had said it. And now Ranma was saying it, and wasn't even fighting with her, and was just...being so kind. And she didn't want to fight, either, didn't want to argue against his compliments. She...kind of wanted to hug him for them, for telling her these things.

//"I..."// You what, Setsuna? She didn't know. //"I...I know I don't have to...but...Thank you anyway."//

She wanted to say that she was glad she had a friend like him at times like these, but couldn't quite get that out.

He had a strange urge to touch her wings but he didn't act on it. //Yeah... 'm happy ta...// For moment he wished he could fly too, just to be able to fly with her...

//"Um, yes, well..."//

This was just terribly awkward. Setsuna didn't know what to say, or what to do, could only just stand there, fidgeting under her wings. She wanted to just fly away, but that would be too rude. She didn't know how to handle a Ranma like this. Her brain searched for something comfortable, something to argue about, because, while she hated fighting with him, at least she knew how to do that. But her mind was a blank. Was it just because it was so late? Or was another part of her just trying to cling to this nice moment, with him complimenting her, being kind...

But it wasn't a nice moment, it was an awkward moment. She wanted to be rid of it.

//"S...should I let you go? I...I didn't mean to interupt your walk with Mizu."//

Although you didn't interupt it, you idiot, Mizu interupted you. Her shoulders sunk a bit with a sigh. Why could she never just feel comfortable around him?

//Well... O-okay... See you..// He turns to walk away, more than a bit sadly.

Setsuna blinked. Sure, it was the most obvious response, but it certainly wasn't the one she expected. she didn't know what she expected, though. Just that that wasn't it.

//"Ranma, wait!"// She took a few jogging steps up to him, stopping as he stopped, giving a small smile. //"You heading back to the dorms? We might as well walk together."//

Ranma smiles cutely at her. //Sure... I'd like that...//

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