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[color=6ecff6]"You'd be right,"[/color] Mia said, feeling herself come to ease opposite this man Solenne. But anonymity still girded them both, a cloak Mia was prepared to wrench away. [color=6ecff6]"I came from Singapore, somewhere in Southeast Asia. Haven't lived in these parts for very long."[/color] She gestured around the cafe, as though to encompass the entire city, the entire world left unexplored, in an easy wave of the hand. 

Solenne massaged the nape of his neck, to ask, [i]“How do you feel about another species being your soulmate?”[/i] Mia blinked, and her eyes came to settle on Solenne's irises - startling crimson rubies.

[color=6ecff6][i]Well, that is something to chew on[/i][/color], Mia thought, as Delilah came up to deliver Solenne's coffee. It sat steaming between them. [i]“Take your time to answer..."[/i] said Solenne, [i]"I'm in no rush.”[/i]

That was an invitation. Mia might have stalled and bought time as if it were going out of style. She might have mulled over each of her words carefully, considering and weighing every syllable in the palm of her hand, until the answer that sounded the most [i]right[/i] translated from thought to spoken word. She might have, and she absolutely did not, for reasons that evaded her well.

Resting her chin on the heel of her palm, Mia looked distantly out the window, where men and women were bustling up and down the street, so enthralled by their worlds of office matters and business affairs, that none of them paused to glance once at one another. [color=6ecff6]"I could say it doesn't matter,"[/color] she said, considering on the spot, musing over what left her mouth as it did. [color=6ecff6]"I could probably say that it matters even less than what my horoscope is."[/color] Her eyes flicked back to Solenne's, glinting with humour. [color=6ecff6]"Aquarius, by the way."[/color] Mia's expression one of contemplative solemnity, she narrowed her gaze, as though all the better to study Solenne. [color=6ecff6]"But that wouldn't be entirely true.[/color]

[color=6ecff6]"You belonging to another species matters - even though it's not the most important. [i]That[/i] would be knowing how you like your coffee - "[/color] she nodded to the beverage mug, [color=6ecff6]" - what you like to do on a lazy day, your interests, your pastimes. What makes you smile. I think your species matters, only because it's something about you that I would like [i]very[/i] much to know about."[/color] Leaning forward in her chair, the corners of Mia's lips quirked upwards fondly. [color=6ecff6]"So will you tell me?"[/color]