Mistletoe threads!!

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RAPHAEL

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[ from here ]

Yes, that'd be great!
You were headed... this way, right? [ he turns around. ]

[wingectomy]

That's right. [ He offers his hand. ]

[floret]

Oh, thank you! [ hana's not wearing his mittens today, so his hand is pretty cold when he takes raphael's... of course, it's also tiny, but it's like that every day. ]

[wingectomy]

[ He looks at him, a bit surprised, making sure his hand is wrapped fully around Hanatarou's, feeling a little concerned over how chilly his fingers are. ]

You're gonna get frostbite.

[floret]

Ehhhhhh??
It's not that cold...
Doesn't it have to be much colder than this for that to happen?

[wingectomy]

[ He rubs Hanatarou's hand a little in his grasp, trying to warm it. ]

Mm? Does it?

[floret]

...Well, I thought it did.
It usually doesn't get cold enough that we have to worry about it where I'm from.

[wingectomy]

Haha, well I'm not much on science, but still, I wouldn't want you to catch cold, either!

[floret]

I'll make sure to put on mittens or something later if it's going to stay this cold... How are you handling it?

[wingectomy]

Oh, I still hate it, but it's alright. I'm just getting used to feeling the cold again.

[floret]

You couldn't even feel it when you were busy being an angel?
...Or it just never got so cold like this there?

[wingectomy]

I couldn't really feel it, no. Being an angel on earth is weird. There's stuff you can interact with, stuff you can't... things you feel and things you don't.

[floret]

Being in the living world for a shinigami is a little like that, too. Though it sort of depends on what you're trying to do and how much you're paying attention as to what you can and can't touch...

[wingectomy]

Mm, that does sound familiar. Can you talk to the living? I don't remember if I asked before.

[floret]

Not really. Living humans with enough spiritual power to sense us at all are very rare.

[wingectomy]

Then I picked a good friend! You understand.

[floret]

Well... only a little. I didn't spend that much time in the living world, and I was never a living human myself, so... it probably wasn't that much like what you had to deal with.

[wingectomy]

So you've always been that way? Did you ever have a childhood?

[floret]

Yes, a really long one! It's somewhat rare, but people are still born in Soul Society, so... I was able to grow up more or less normally. I think.

[wingectomy]

It doesn't matter if it was normal or not. Angels are born, too, sometimes. Mikael was born an angel. Or, at least, something holy that's supposed to become an angel.

[floret]

Oh, really? Did he grow up in the human world, or in... um, the angel one?

[wingectomy]

The angel world. He's been in the human world for a while, now, but he hasn't got his wings, yet, so he can still be seen.

[floret]

Oh! So is he sort of living as a human right now?

[wingectomy]

That's right. I think he's having fun with it.

[floret]

I can imagine! There are a lot of wonderful things in the human world.
Ah, but won't it get complicated when he has to leave to be an angel instead?