[ lumine just watches him quietly as he goes through the motions, instinctively leaning against his hand when he brushes her tears away and goes through her hair. her counterpart was never this weak, she doesn't think. the images she's seen in her dreams, the visions she's had of the other lumine—something like this wouldn't break her into pieces.

her eyes flicker from aether's braid to ajax when he reaches over to the table. she didn't even notice that there was something else in the box other than the flowers and the chocolate, and now her brother's hair. ]

How ... did they know that I'm staying here, though? No one else knows except you, my assistant, and the housekeeper ...

[ and his sister, but tatiana is someone ajax trusts with his life. it's alarming to find out they might've been followed even here. ]

Does it say anything?