"Midnight..." Ariiko murmured. "Your hair is like winter during a forbidden hour of night." She smiles at Hanami and patted the priestess's head, noticing the princess leaving. It wasn't much of her concern. Ida was asleep and didn't notice, thankfully. Yet she still wondered, what darkness did the demon harbor.

"Starlight," Ariiko called down to her lover. "What's going on?"

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