Demons.exe: The Musebox

WHO: Ran and Atawhai
WHERE: an outdoor cafe near Ran's apartment
WHEN: mid-afternoon
OPEN/CLOSED: Closed
WARNINGS: BOYFRANZ might be actual warnings later

( Yet another adorable Ata/Ran moment )

[While Ran's dreams of his parents were often troubling, his daydreams could leave him in a stupor. Rarely did he allow the thoughts to plague him so, but it can be difficult to keep unwanted thoughts at bay. The bittersweet memories were most often called up in the older sections of Birchpointe, where he'd lived with his parents while he was still young. Some of the parks and playgrounds he remembered well have been torn down by now, but some still stand.

One such playground holds a memory that he still holds very dearly to this day. Not because of its nature as a means to recall the faces and mannerisms of his parents, but because this was the first place he'd ever met the man he would later come to know as his father.

He couldn't help but wonder what it might be like to visit this place again with King some day, to relive that very moment when they'd first seen each other. But as Ran entered the fenced-in lot where the playground sits, he decides against ever asking. As busy as his father is with the Arcanum, there was hardly any time for such recreation. Yet even then, the thought lingers, as the sounds of playing children seem to pull Ran out of the real world and into even deeper into his own thoughts.

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