[He has to go. He has to go, now, before the guards put two and two together and search outside and find him. What will they do to him, if they suspect him of conspiring with her? For a moment, she curses her own ineptitude. She should have known bringing up his sister was a bad idea - if not a bad idea in general, then a bad idea at this exact moment, when they have so little time.
Still, her assurance comes easily and it's genuine. Though she's desperate to have him get safely back to his room, she does mean it when she swears to him, her own hands pressed against her side of the wall.]
I promise you! I'll do everything within my power to reunite the two of you.
[It may not be an easy promise to keep, but if she can, she absolutely wants to keep it. It's for the better that the Nagumo clan doesn't know of Chizuru's whereabouts, because she doesn't doubt that they would use "reuniting the twins" as a pretext to take her and subject her to the same foul treatment Kaoru has been living with for so many years, but she finds it dreadfully unfair that Kaoru has had no word of the one person who seems, from his reaction, to mean the most to him.]
Now go!
[Her command is insistent, and perhaps spoken a little too loudly. She hears movement just outside her door and draws away from the wall, turning instead to kneel at the low table and glare at the door as it slides open, her lips pressed together into a thin line.
"I heard a voice. She must have been talking to someone. Go and look!"
All Sen can do is pray that by the time the footsteps she hears leaving the hall just outside her room make it to the outside, Kaoru is somewhere safe.]
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Still, her assurance comes easily and it's genuine. Though she's desperate to have him get safely back to his room, she does mean it when she swears to him, her own hands pressed against her side of the wall.]
I promise you! I'll do everything within my power to reunite the two of you.
[It may not be an easy promise to keep, but if she can, she absolutely wants to keep it. It's for the better that the Nagumo clan doesn't know of Chizuru's whereabouts, because she doesn't doubt that they would use "reuniting the twins" as a pretext to take her and subject her to the same foul treatment Kaoru has been living with for so many years, but she finds it dreadfully unfair that Kaoru has had no word of the one person who seems, from his reaction, to mean the most to him.]
Now go!
[Her command is insistent, and perhaps spoken a little too loudly. She hears movement just outside her door and draws away from the wall, turning instead to kneel at the low table and glare at the door as it slides open, her lips pressed together into a thin line.
"I heard a voice. She must have been talking to someone. Go and look!"
All Sen can do is pray that by the time the footsteps she hears leaving the hall just outside her room make it to the outside, Kaoru is somewhere safe.]