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General Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game)

Gen | for CoralDragoness | 100 words | 2023-02-03 | the lamb | AO3

Laura | Lora & Minochi | Cole | Minoth

Minochi | Cole | Minoth, Laura | Lora

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel

"Ahhh...!"

Minoth threw a curious glance Lora's way, and after she'd exited her yawning repose, she caught it. "It's so good to be able to just stretch out and be free, after all this time."

"Thought you've been living in the wilds for seventeen years," he replied conversationally, coming to sit in the desert's-edge wildflowers beside her.

Lora nodded, then actually yawned, instead of just stretching. "That's right. It's been a long time. But now that I've got such lovely comrades I can trust-" she paused to poke his shoulder, and he nudged back, grin wide "-it's different."

"Better?"

"Worlds."