[ She says finally after looking him in the eyes for what seems a small eternity.
Nao turns and takes one step, two, giving a two-fingered salute as she glitches into her third step and vanishes.
Outside, the real Nao sighs, her head and back against the cottage wall. In her eyes, a sky full of foreign stars. She looks at them for a moment, then moves to push herself up as the wind asserts itself, causing her braid to billow past her shoulder. She'd best be getting back then. She will, and quietly, a ghost unseen. ]
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[ She says finally after looking him in the eyes for what seems a small eternity.
Nao turns and takes one step, two, giving a two-fingered salute as she glitches into her third step and vanishes.
Outside, the real Nao sighs, her head and back against the cottage wall. In her eyes, a sky full of foreign stars. She looks at them for a moment, then moves to push herself up as the wind asserts itself, causing her braid to billow past her shoulder. She'd best be getting back then. She will, and quietly, a ghost unseen. ]