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"We can go anywhere," Anthy hears as she reaches up, fingers splayed out as if to grab the night sky in her claws and then pull them down to her; she forces her fingers to relax and the stars escape her grasp like fireflies. Utena keeps talking. "We can go anywhere we want to."
Anthy has learned to love and to hate the stars from her brother's bedroom; here in Utena's, she'd like to learn how to forgive them as well. She turns from the stars and smiles at Utena's sincerity. "I've never been to the ocean," she whispers as she leans down to taste that sincerity.
"Then let's go there first."