SUMIRE
Yuhi laughs. "You don't have to worry. I'm always going to be here." He trails off. "I think I should be the one worried, there is a higher chance of you trying to run off somewhere."
Her sweat fell hearing those words. She wants to deny them and reassure him. But, she knows herself very well.
"Say my dear?"
"Yeah?
"These scars, I don't think I've seen them before."
"Yeah, now my power and memory are returning. Some of my old wounds are too."
Now that he mentions it, didn't he say something about being occupied during the time she got captured? She wonders if these wounds are related.
"When I was being tortured in the first life." Sumire started.
She has been meaning to approach this topic with him ever since he revealed how they first met when she was still Norah. But, it felt like she was intruding on old wounds that he wasn't ready to reveal yet.