"h"

"it started rag right after you"

"so?"

"it's weird"

"not really"

"why?"

"heaven is siply tryg to put out a fire it can't reach"

gojyo ughed and ruffled his hair, pullg hi close for a chaste and quiet kiss before fallg back it was their first, though it certaly didn't feel like it "you cag trouble without ?"

"wouldn't drea of it" tired he was still tired hakkai closed his eyes

"so" gojyo said, then drifted off

"h?"

perhaps as if to clear his own nscience: "i' jt curio, butudid you and kenren"

"go to sleep, gojyo" and with a sirk, gojyo did

this was a good heaven, tenpou thought as he sprawled hiself over the grassy field jt outside the holy city the roughness of the ground beneath his sk, the scent of flowers, the sky that never cried and the breeze that always caressed

nothg but beg it was a good heaven

a shadow fell over hi, akg the dess behd his eyelids even dir he squted the open tenpou's gaze was t by o deep blood red jewels gracefully set a statue of shg white arble and scales

"arshal" goujun greeted ipassively