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Note: The speaker here is Hikari. She is currently attending school in Unova.
I glance out the window, at the darkening sky over Nimbasa, that still isn't dark enough even though the sun set nearly an hour ago. It's a full moon. I can make it out, even with all of those blasted city lights. This place is too bright. For someone whose name means light, I still appreciate the darkness. Only in darkness can you see things for what they really are. Only in darkness are you forced to use other senses; sound, smell, touch. You can't touch the moon, though. Just as right now, I can't see it shining in the sky because of the lights.
Next to the bed, my phone beeps with an alert. I reach over to pick it up, and in an instant, I am tearing up. It's a photo from Cyrus, of the moon, high and full and bright over the water in our back yard. He knows, of course, how much I dislike being here, where everything is metal and concrete and nothing is personal and earthy and--
But this place is so like him.
I send him a text back, one that I know he will see, attempt not to roll his eyes at, and then not respond to. It is unlike me, to put things so, but I have found with him that it is what goes unsaid that is ultimately more important than what I have said.
"<3" said the text. And nothing else.