*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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[lamentoso]

"Ding dong!" called Sayaka from above, leaning over her friend so that she had an upside down view from where she stood. "Anyone home? Come on Madoka, you can't seriously be sleeping!" she joked, following it up with a laugh, "You should save that sort of thing for when you're in class!"

Oh man, sorry this is so late ;w;

[kujikenai]

"Heeeeh?! Sayaka-chaaaaan, you scared me!"

...normalcy. As the sun shone over the two of them, the fresh breeze tousling her hair, and hearing Sayaka's laugh, Madoka could pretend for a moment that she was a normal girl.

Witches didn't exist, she didn't feel the warm glow of her Soul Gem in her pocket, and she was just sitting on the roof with her best friend.

Yeah.

Madoka sat up and puffed out her cheeks with faux-annoyance.

"I didn't get much sleep last night...and I don't want to sleep in class; I'll get in trouble!"

Not that she wouldn't get in trouble for sleeping on the roof and missing class, but still.

i have quite the late tendency myself... ;A;

[lamentoso]

"Awh, don't worry about it, I do it all the time!" she encouraged, prodding Madoka with an elbow gently as she took a seat beside her. "What's the matter? Were you up late with your mom again? She's such a cool career oriented woman, I bet there's lots of times they make her work late," Sayaka continued on the conversation. It was just another normal day. There was no reason to worry about displaced souls or menacing shadows.