*001* | Skyline

[kujikenai]

 When she closed her eyes and sleep claimed the corpse the soul of Madoka Kaname thus controlled, she dreamed of better days. 

What precisely? Anything one would think of: playing alongside her friends in a schoolyard, or even singing together in a too-small Karaoke box, the familiar sounds of badly-recorded J-Pop fluttering in the air. Madoka's heart often fluttered from event to event, grasping for the normalcy she'd left behind, and yet at the same time embracing the life she'd chosen to lead with no regrets. 

Tonight was no different. 

The school roof wasn't the most comfortable place to lie down, but Madoka cared little. She lied flat on her back, bentou long finished and neatly set aside. The sky was almost an endless expanse above her, with barely any clouds. 

The sun didn't even shine in her eyes.

With a sigh, she closed her eyes. It was so warm. She could just lie here for a while. Nobody would mind, she was sure...

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I'm sorry, school reports make me super slow when writing prose....

[decaying]

[There were big cities in Kanda's world but he hadn't ever really bothered using their rooftops. In an era of thick coal clouds and very few clean things about, being up there couldn't really be good for your health. Perhaps all of his time spent with Ami had gotten him dreaming about the future, about clear skies and fancy rooftops about fancy cities. He wasn't sure what he was doing up there or where he was so when he found the girl lying there, he figured a small interrogation would suffice.]

Hey, kid. Wake up. [He'll say that a bit loudly in order to make sure you actually heard him.] Where are we?

Oh, it's fine. I've been glacial, myself. :<

[kujikenai]

H...uh...?

[In the fog of sleep, someone had been calling to her. A man, probably older than her, from the sounds of it. He was standing over her, close by...

...Oh. That's nice.

Time to go back to sleep--

Wait.

Wait, WHAT. Hold the phone a second, just a second--!!]

Eh...EHHH?!

[Sorry, strange man. Madoka is just going to wonder for a minute why someone she was pretty sure wasn't a faculty member was staring down at her on the school roof and asking where they were.

She sat up quickly.]

U-um...we're on the Mitakihara Junior High School roof!

[Madoka could deal with Witches and still keep her ocmposure (for the most part). She could deal with the worst things in her life and still keep up a smile, and always have hope.

Dealing with a strange older man staring at her while she was sleeping?

Yeah. No.

Flailing was only inevitable.]