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by brythain » Tue Apr 08, 2014 1:51 am
I'm always dozing off at my desk these days. Fortunately, this desk, like all my others, was designed to have plenty of space for sleeping.
I'm woken with a start. It's a warm afternoon and sunlight lances through a gap in the curtains and across my face.
"Hello, author."
In the relative dimness of the room, a slim shape sits, hands folded primly on a pleated skirt. Who is it this time? It doesn't sound like Lilly, and besides, I think I've finished outlining her story.
Slim, very pale. And then I take a closer look. A whiter shade of pale, perhaps. Her irises are crimson even with her body turned away from the window.
"I'm sorry, miss. I haven't yet had the pleasure of your acquaintance."
She laughs with unexpected vigour and charm.
"Katayama. Rika, if you like. I know you've thought of me only very briefly, and I'm just a ghost at the edges of the dream. But… would you mind? It would be interesting to watch you write at least one scene from my story."
Wild surmise runs through my head. I have indeed thought about it briefly. Only yesterday, in fact. Does the act of invocation, the deed of summoning, spring from thought alone?
She gives a gentle little snort, as if reading my mind.
"I've been thinking the same kind of thoughts. Maybe the answer becomes clearer if more people think about them, and if those people are somehow linked."
She smiles. Her teeth are very white, but her lips are pale. She has an ethereal beauty, like the faint scent of bergamot with a hint of vanilla.
From another corner of the room, "Wahaha!~ Author-san, I won't mind! The more the merrier! It might even make my story less sad! You cannot write sad stories all day, they just make you tired, and who will then give Misha a good deal?"
Fine.
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brythain on Wed May 21, 2014 12:47 am, edited 2 times in total.
