GROWING DIM.

         “ — huh.  so you really leave for UA.”

                     it happens, obviously, but not often.  shiketsu is just as hard to get into, so most people who end up there have made the CHOICE not to go to UA.  still, if she’s fated to run into someone she’s familiar with, she prefers this – an underclassman she barely knows – to an encounter with her brother.  she’d come to the sports festival to watch aoi, but she doesn’t plan to let him find out.

     the  last  person  he  expected  to  run  into  was  a  ( formerly )  fellow  shiketsu  attendee  --  one  he  doesn’t  recognize,  either  by  lack  of  interaction  or  lack  of  interest.  she  seems  to  know  him,  though,  and  it  takes  every  ounce  of  his  willpower  not  to  simply  sigh  at  her  inquiry ;  the  topic  isn’t  one  he  wishes  to  touch  on,  especially  with  someone  he  can  scarcely  recall.