Well. Iiiiiiiiiii dunno about you, [i]but.[/i] In my opinion? If you wanna know what I think? If, uh, I mean, you... [i]do[/i] wanna know what I think, right? Course you do! Course! Right. Well. Well! 

I think! Given all the, y'know, the everything, that one day's not askin' too much. Y'know? Just one little day. Let Yue and Hyra have this one single solemntary morning noon and night to drown in each other and leave the rest for figuring out later. Tomorrow when they wake up (late), there'll be time for new adventures. Tomorrow there'll be time for all the little things. Tomorrow there'll be time for friends. And for saying sorry to those friends, who happen to matter more than all the rest. 

It's just, a friend's not the same thing as a girlfriend, is it? At least not all the time. Though I guess a girlfriend should always be a friend. But still. There are those people you'd do anything for, and your fluffy tail can't help but wag when you see them, right? Or, uh, the people at the end of the adventure who hug with everything you've got and cry for all you're worth 'cause you know you're about to have to say goodbye for a while and it hurts your heart to do it. But you do it, don't you? For you and for them, 'cause you've all got different lives to live. 

But then there's the ones whose suitcases you sit down inside of to keep them from leaving you, aren't there? The ones where your whole world goes bursting into full color when they come in the door and you have to tackle them right then and there before they go away again. The ones you hug and cry with even harder at the end of the journey because you're saying goodbye together. And you wave together and you let everyone [i]else[/i] go, because you decided you were gonna live your lives together after all. 

Yue's never had that second thing before. And when she and Hyra finally locked together against all odds a whole bunch of other stuff happened (that you just got finished hearing about, you lucky devil!) and made it so she couldn't do any of the special Girfriend Stuff she'd read so much about. So it's not, y'know, it's not unreasonable for her to wanna have a day to start doin' all that before she gets back to all've the everything else. And besides. Besides! If she's gonna have a proper double-date with Rose and Chen she needs practice first, right? 

And it's a day they haven't wasted, lemme tell you. First picnic, out under a little persimmon tree. Tea and little cakes and just a tiny bit of duck with crispy bits of skin cut up like little fries. All handmade, of course. And shhhoooooo goodf! Mm! Even if there was barely enough extra for guests, and um, ahaha, if we're being real honest for a second? That's proooooobably 'cause Yue didn't eat her whole share. Still though! Mmmf!! But yeah. First picnic. First time sharin' a sunlit spot with someone she could actually have a conversation with. First time wasting that first time with not sayin' anything worth hearing anyways. First time sittin' in the sunlight, with not a single bead out farming and bein' completely ok with that. 

First time runnin' with a pretty girl by her side and getting to feel the wind in her hair and tugging at her skirts 'cause even though she's wolf-light, wolf-swift, wolf-fast, she's actually [i]not[/i] a wolf for the first time she's actually gotten to move around like this since learnin' it was something she could do. And it's joyful, a treat among treats, to feel her sandals on the ground and glance over through a mop of frizzled brown hair and seeing the most beautiful girl in the world grinning at her and matching her step for... wait a second, where's she going? Hyra you jerk, you can't go faster than! Ohhhh, you're in trouble when she catches you!

First time stumbling into a room tired and sweaty and needing a bath... and feeling eyes on her when she goes to peel off her clothes.

"Um... d-d'you have to watch like that?"

"Does it bother you?" Hyra is smiling like a sphynx.

"N... no! But I, it's just, oh goshies, I'm all sweaty and gross..."

"I like you sweaty and gross. I should keep training you forever just to keep you looking like this."

"A-and besides! Y-y-you saw me naked for like a whole week! A-a-and you're looking at me like..."

"Yue."

"Meep!"

"I saw a wolf. A very pretty wolf, sure. But now I get to see [i]you[/i], Yue. I get to see the body you belong to, not something someone else tried to force you to be. Of course I'm gonna look! Unless you don't want me to~"

"N-no! I mean yes! I mean gosh, [i]gosh!![/i] I, I... I want you to look, and I, I want you to..."

"You think I need a bath too, is that it?"

"Ye, yu-- uhuh! I think we! I! Please?"

"You poor thing, you're shaking! Well. How about I help you finish getting out of those clothes?"

"...y-yes please."

"And then you,"

"Uhuh?"

"Can help me out of [i]mine[/i]."

"adskfgjblbsdf!!"

"There we go, good girl~"

Yue learned a lot of things that night. Like, for one, Hyra's got a mole just above the left side of her waist that's perfect for kissing. And another one a little higher just beneath the collar bone. And that Hyra's tail wags when she runs her fingers down the magic spot on her spine. 

Also, remember all that stuff I said before about kissin'? And how you never get your first one twice? Turns out that's not true! 'Cause there's all sorts of places a girl can be kissed. And the first kiss on her neck's very different from the one on her lips. And the one that comes after with the sucking that pulls her skin up and the bite of strong teeth after? That's even better. The line of tiny pecks down her chest feel like something she'd never even dreamed of. 

And didja know girls can get licked and kissed across their tummy? And it's the best thing ev-- wait! Wait wait wait, breaking news! Thighs are even better for kissing! Right on the top, like that, like that! Right on... on the inside, and... oh, oh, ohhhh!

Yue learned a lot about kisses that night. About getting them and giving them, and the noises she had inside of her that she never knew she could make. It's a wonderful, incredible, [i]amazing[/i] thing to have a girlfriend. To have somebody who loves you with all of their infinite heart. Someone you never have to say goodbye to, not ever. Not even then. It's amazing to give all of yourself to that person. Next time she'll try to learn how to take it back. Or if she's not up to that just yet, maybe she'll learn how many [i]other[/i] ways there are to give yourself to a special girl. 

The duel is, after all, about the duel. And there's always something new to learn. About technique. About your partner. About yourself and your secretest of secret hearts.