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CHAPTER 05
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❝ QUIET WHEN I'M COMING HOME ❞
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ♡︎♡︎♡︎ AKAZA HAD HIS hands in my hair, playing with it. I thought he was going to braid it at first since he was eager to have me let my hair down, but I realized that he was just curious what the texture was. My hair is long and reached way below my back, it can be heavy at times, especially whenever wet, but it was part of my disguise as a woman, and I quite like my hair.
He was gentle with the way he kept combing through the strands, sometimes braiding a small piece before untangling it. The pleasantness of his touch brought me comfort, letting me relax even though a demon was right behind me, lightly playing with my hair.
"Do you mind if I ask questions about you?" Akaza suddenly asked, still toying with the ends of my hair. I flicked some behind me since it was irritating my neck, then nodding to his question. "I don't mind as long as I can ask you some questions as well."
"Do you want to get away from this kind of life?"
His sudden question made me stop what I was doing, my hands pausing on its own as the needle stayed in between the handkerchief. With a small sigh, I regained my composure and nodded. "Sometimes. Yes. I wake up some days and feel the need to just be ordinary. But I have two girls to take care of, so I need to continue with what I'm doing or else we'll all starve."
Akaza stayed quiet for a bit. Maybe he was forming a response, maybe he was thinking of my words deeper, or maybe he was deep in his own world, whichever it was, he enjoyed fingering my hair and combing it. I resumed sewing a simple figure of an evening glory on Hizuki's handkerchief, making sure it looked nearly identical with the one Hazuki has.
"What does human food taste and smell like to demons? Is it still the same or does it taste rotten?" Since it was my turn to ask, I chose a simple question. I have always been curious with those kinds of things regarding other creatures. It makes me wonder how their anatomy works, how are their healing factors, how do their reproduce, and so on.
