Miyako
ποΈ Game Master
- RP Date
- YE 44.6
- RP Location
- Kyoto, Yamatai
Motoyoshi-Jo
Kyoto, YamataiThe sound of a heavy swallow is all that broke the silence inside of the transport. The rain had been louder earlier, but tapered off as they slowed on approach to the main offices and residences of Motoyoshi-jo.
The single clan bodyguard looked from the window where she scanned the covered landing site over to her charge:
"It's nothing. You may go for the night once we stop. It's well inside the perimeter. I don't want a big announcement, that's why we're not in the marked vehicle." Shimizu Akina sat across from her watcher, wearing something more appropriate for a meeting than a reunion. She decided after much deliberation to go with a somewhat muted outfit in black and grey. It featured a pencil skirt and dark thigh-high stockings, complete with black pumps she felt made the most pleasing sound of her professional heels on hard surfaces. A smartly cut vest is all she wore over a sleeveless snowy undershirt. Taking the time earlier in the afternoon to have her hair professionally styled, and it had come with a treatment to her nails to give them a glossy, pearlescent rainbow shine. The finishing touch was a very faint jasmine-based perfume and a necklace hiding an interface, operating as her communication device to make up for the lack of any pockets.
As she checked her reflection in the nearest screen, rather than one of the tinted windows for evidence of the faint 'sparkles' they had claimed showed up under light with the hair spray used on her, the passenger door opened. Her escort nodded, peered outside, and when she gave another nod to her passenger, she was smiling slightly.
Standing at the landing alone was a green-haired Nekovalkyrja with her mouth already agape. "Taisho H-ime! No one told me you were coming!" She blurted out, bowing low as after a cursory look down at her outfit, Akina gave her a reassuring smile as she was handed a rather large and expensive looking flower box. It featured blue, red, and purple flowers in very specific colors resting in a bed of white pebbles, the dirt underneath. On the bed of pebbles sat a jewelry set of a fine white gold in the clan color, which she always felt looked pretty with her mate's hair color.
"That was the point, do not tell anyone please. I'm just an 'unscheduled guest', I want to make this a surprise." Only getting a stunned nod in return, she waited a moment to get cleared through, just without using her name. The transport shifted away, back out into the rain, leaving them alone for a few moments, until the doors to the building opened to reveal the next attendant, dressed more traditionally in a Kimono of blue and white with a bamboo motif.
"This way please, hime-sama." The woman bowed, though the strategist was feeling more and more nervous, the more certain things became.
With doors sealed behind her, and a far less chilly reception area in front, Akina couldn't help but ask, "Where is my wife? The butterflies are only going to multiply the longer we dally." Raising from her bow after a depth and time no doubt drilled into her at an etiquette course, her new guide gestured smoothly with one arm, to reveal a set of doors sliding open near noiselessly from the relief of a Hummingbird and Phoenix five meters behind her desk. Things became even more real, ripping her out of the dream of even being in the building while she stared into the elevator, motionless until she could hear the voice of the attendant repeating herself.
"May I take that for you?" She inquired, only to cause those momentarily sedentary feet to sound a (mostly) sure track of heels on the marble all the way to the elevator. Once inside, she smiled more nervously than she thought and clung the box more tightly, letting the blossoms obscure her face when held to her stomach.
Not even realizing she was making the same request they were already tending to, the admiral fought the hiccup-like feeling inside of her and replied, "I'll be fine, I think I need it. Thank you. Make sure not to tell her who is coming."
Smooth, shiny doors slid shut, leaving her only as nervous as she had been on the way over, at least until it started to move skyward towards where she was. The veteran commander's heart started to beat so loudly that she thought it might get picked up on the security sensors, or the feeling of all the blood alternating going to her feet, to all over her face, making her even check the temperature readout amid the myriad information displayed on the panel to the right of the doors. It was still the right thing to do, it had been for far longer than she had let her worry keep her from her love, her partner. A digital brain is not always a gift, when you can imagine every scenario that can tear one's heart from their chest.
As the doors slid open, she could only hear herself think, "We need each other, just walk one foot in front of the other, soldier." The flowers can't really conceal Akina that well, but she walked out and tried to make a go of it before, as pins and needles shot up the back of her neck, she lowered it and looked for Katsuko, trying to keep herself from getting misty too soon to not seem a wreck, even if her mascara wouldn't run.
She wasn't going to either.
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