@seiirenes said: you've been waiting to say that, haven't you? (For Machiko)
RANDOM INSTIGATIVE PROMPTS || ACCEPTING!
SHE'S SILENT FOR A SECOND, trying to process what exactly she had said. She didn't know what came over her. Maybe it's because of all that happened, being blackmailed by the Former Supreme Commander in the Meta Liberation Army, having to fake their deaths to save them, seeing her second in Command practically trying to kill her, programed to kill them all...
Maybe this all brought her full circle, to things she couldn't say in the past but, perhaps nothing is holding them back anymore. Holding her back anymore.
"....Perhaps I have."
She wasn't one to lie, nor play around with feelings like this. For the majority of her life, Machiko had only been used as a weapon. She had never thought something like this could happen to her.
But she couldn't stop herself anymore.
"Maybe now, that nothing is holding me back. Maybe I just wanna be open with how I have been feeling. You're one of the few people I can really rely on outside of the agency." She means that, fully, "But, after almost losing the agency, losing you nearly...I can't risk that again..." She doesn't like being open this often, but it feels right in this moment.
It all feels right.
"I don't want to die with regrets. And if I didn't say anything and die, it would've been one of my biggest regrets."












