Mirror mirror on the wall, tell me something, tell me who's the loneliest of all... ?

[hellpyre]

Who: Rin, OPEN
When: Day 94
Where: Skyway
What: Rin visits a statue and... sort of has a conversation with it
Format: Action
Warnings: None

Hey, four eyes...

[Coming to the Skyway alone was dangerous. Everyone knew that. But it didn't stop Rin from, every so often, going out there on her own anyway. Not to hunt, or look for supplies, but to sit in front of a statue that was really only familiar to her.

She didn't really know why she did it. She didn't really want to see it as like visiting a grave, though it sort of was. It wasn't like there was anything else of her sister, aside from the pin she had found when her and Night had first come across the statues of Monaka and Yuki.

And it felt odd to talk to something that couldn't respond, yet there she was, greeting the statue as if her sister was still alive and able to speak in return.

But she couldn't, and Rin would spend her time out there just staring at it, lips pulled in a tight frown, or teeth worrying at her lower lip in some useless attempt to keep tears back.]

... geez. Never thought I'd miss you this much, Yuki...

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[hellpyre]

[Rin welcomes the hug gratefully, wrapping her arms around him tightly and burying her face in his shoulder.

She stayed quiet for a bit, but eventually a quiet mumble left her.]

Sorry I didn't say where I was goin'...

[kyotoprincess]

[Bon would have given her a hard time for it, had he not just seen her talking to her dead sister.]

...It's alright. Just let me know the next time, and I'll come with you.

[He can watch her back whenever she wants to talk to Yukio.]

[hellpyre]

I will...

[A quiet sniffle, and she let go, sliding back to look back at the statue while keeping close to Bon.]

I wish I could take her back with us... I'm always worried I'm gonna come back and she'll be gone...

[It was weird to speak of a statue as if it was still a person, but Rin knew it would hurt more to say 'it' as opposed to 'her'.]

[kyotoprincess]

[Bon will break from the hug, though he'll try to keep a hold of Rin's hand if she'll let him. He'll also look at the statue of Yuki, trying to think of a solution to this problem.]

Well, we could take her back, if you wanted to. We would just need something to store her ashes in, like an urn.

[hellpyre]

[Rin's fingers curled around his instinctively, blue eyes glancing up at him thoughtfully. It wouldn't be the same... she wouldn't have a form Rin could see anymore, but if they were back home ashes would be the way things would be handled anyway.

Hesitantly, she nodded.]

We could look for somethin' out here.

[kyotoprincess]

Or we could go back, get something nice with shards, and come back here better prepared.

[He doesn't want to risk losing the ashes because of broken things.]

Also...

[He hesitates for a moment before asking the next question.]

Do you want to do a funeral for her? I could do it, I've seen my old man do it enough times to know what to do.

[Though he was raised Buddhist, and Rin was raised Catholic, so there would be very different funerals.]

[hellpyre]

[Good point.]

Oh... y-yeah, we can do that.

[She hesitates, too, with her own response. It really has nothing to do with religions in her mind, given that she really hasn't been a practicing Catholic in years and isn't about to start again after what she learned about herself.

It's more the... finality of it. Know that with a funeral she would have to finally, absolutely accept that she wasn't going to get her sister back. Some version of her, maybe... but Rin just knew that the one standing there, still as stone, was the one she had grown up with.

And she was gone.

She pulled a breath in and let it out, squeezing Bon's hand as she nodded silently.]

[kyotoprincess]

[Bon nods in return, but he doesn't go to leave yet. Even though getting everything done sooner is better (so they don't have to worry about a monster breaking Yukio's statue or anything), he doesn't want to rush Rin. This is very much about her, so they will go at her pace.]

Just let me know when you're ready, and we'll go do the preparations.

[hellpyre]

I will.

[She nodded again, sadly smiling up at him.]

Thank you... I think this would be a lot harder if you weren't here...