network two; I hear footsteps behind me. I wonder who it could be, I wonder.
[Rena wonders, but she doesn't. She knows whose footsteps they are. Why they're always there, always just one step behind her. Oyashiro-sama is angry with her. She's left the village once more. Rena has thrown away that happiness that she had worked so hard to cling to.
She'd always known that it would disappear one day, that things would wind up like this, but she'd hoped to hold onto it for a little while long. Just a little while, just one more day, always asking for just one more day to come and go without incident.]
action three; [Days like today might have once been turned into a pleasant affair. Small pleasures could be found in even the harshest of winters, with ice and snow becoming a time to curl up with hot chocolate and play games and simply take comfort in the presence of friends and loved ones to pass the time before the storm passed. It was something that should always pass, that she could always hope would pass. Now though...
Now there's only a sense of nostalgia for those days, which had come and gone far too quickly. Rena can only be glad for the warmth of the fireplace and the small comforts that the house she'd found provided. With time, she might fill it up. She might make it a home (or perhaps she should leave it as is, so as not to forget the one she has to go back to.) She rubs her hands before extending her palms before the fire, jumps at the sound of the door creaking open behind her and shivers at the sudden chill in the air.
By the time she turns her head, arms wrapping around her thin body and rubbing her arms her misgivings have been carefully tucked away, replaced by the face of someone being intruded upon by a somewhat thoughtless friend.]
Uwah.... C-close the door! It's freezing outside...
Rena Ryugu | Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
I hear footsteps behind me. I wonder who it could be, I wonder.
[Rena wonders, but she doesn't. She knows whose footsteps they are. Why they're always there, always just one step behind her. Oyashiro-sama is angry with her. She's left the village once more. Rena has thrown away that happiness that she had worked so hard to cling to.
She'd always known that it would disappear one day, that things would wind up like this, but she'd hoped to hold onto it for a little while long. Just a little while, just one more day, always asking for just one more day to come and go without incident.]
action three;
[Days like today might have once been turned into a pleasant affair. Small pleasures could be found in even the harshest of winters, with ice and snow becoming a time to curl up with hot chocolate and play games and simply take comfort in the presence of friends and loved ones to pass the time before the storm passed. It was something that should always pass, that she could always hope would pass. Now though...
Now there's only a sense of nostalgia for those days, which had come and gone far too quickly. Rena can only be glad for the warmth of the fireplace and the small comforts that the house she'd found provided. With time, she might fill it up. She might make it a home (or perhaps she should leave it as is, so as not to forget the one she has to go back to.) She rubs her hands before extending her palms before the fire, jumps at the sound of the door creaking open behind her and shivers at the sudden chill in the air.
By the time she turns her head, arms wrapping around her thin body and rubbing her arms her misgivings have been carefully tucked away, replaced by the face of someone being intruded upon by a somewhat thoughtless friend.]
Uwah.... C-close the door! It's freezing outside...