Feris stepped out of the seam like she'd been hiding in the wall the whole time.
Her light hit a sheet of Luminite and ran back in a dozen soft echoes. The chamber's glow - pale, patient - soaked into her shoulder plate, turning the black to a faint winter green.
"You undersold this place, Raizen" she breathed, and then the grin came back. "Also? Rude. Only Hikari gets a private tour?"
Raizen felt heat climb his face. "It's- the shaft was closed without clearance. Illegal closure. I wasn't supposed to tell anyone."
"And yet here we are" Feris said, teasing. She tipped her chin toward Hikari, whose lamp hung low, whose eyes were lit like she'd just remembered something kind. "Why her?"
His mouth jumped ahead of his brain and tripped. "I… I trusted she- that Hikari wouldn't say anything"
Hikari's brow lifted. Soft, amused. Grateful in a way that made him want to look anywhere but at her.
