[hello! it is roughly five hours after the animal meeting. jiuqing is oblivious to the texting that's been going on.
she comes out of the pod, her bruises having faded and the rest of her wounds having healed into thin scars, and looks a little surprised to see nogiku there]
[she touches the thin, jagged scars from malik's goatening at her throat with one hand and muffles a cough with her other. nogiku will see a flash of peach-colored flower petals as she pulls her hand away and drops them into the trash.]
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