Private Crazy Rich Jedi

[Xian Xiao]

Xian watched her go, standing still for a heartbeat longer than she meant to before her body finally remembered to move.

"…You're being dramatic again," she called after her, already pushing into motion, boots crunching softly along the path as she hurried to close the distance Noriko had so pointedly created.

She slipped through the drifting clouds and between the rows of trees, refusing—on principle, mostly—to let herself be left behind over whatever that little performance was supposed to be.

"I do trust you," Xian added, raising her voice just enough to be heard, though it sounded more like she was arguing with the air than admitting anything to an actual person.

A beat passed. "…Mostly."

She caught up at last, falling into step beside Noriko with a look that tried very hard to be annoyed and didn't quite manage the conviction.

"But if you actually leave me to get lost in a palace in the clouds, that's on you," she muttered, the words slipping out with more resignation than threat.

Then, quieter, almost reluctant, as if the admission cost her something small but real.

"And your heart isn't broken. You were smiling."

Noriko Ike

 

[Noriko Ike]

Xian Xiao

Noriko looked at her. "I can do two things at once, sometimes I tear up when spending an enjoyable time with a paramour padawan..." SHe said it while walking between the trees and up another set of stairs as there was more people around. NOriko was skipping though as she walked... not worried about Xians reaction as she moved. "Come on if you are going to follow me might as well show you where to go. The things I do and go back even though you are so cruel to me over and over again." She mocked cried but was moving now through the hallways before she opened up large doors and the room was massive filled with a central bed but also a large panoramic window that wrapped around and gave a view of the mountains, clouds and the sun setting to the side. "THis will be your room."