I never really looked up to the stars after I ran away. [Maybe as a child with countless siblings, the stars were a beautiful thing to gaze at. After that though...] If I could see the sky then it meant I had no roof over my head.

[Kizuna might not have known he was homeless for a good part of his childhood, but the memory they saw was enough implication that he was.] It was day when I went down, but it was raining. The sky couldn't be seen by the rain clouds. [He pulls the other closer to him, burying his face into Kizuna's hair. He smells salt from the water lingering with the scent of Kizuna's shampoo.]

There were so many things that had to be done if I wanted the Fortress to become a better place, but at that moment, I didn't have to think about any of it. I could just enjoy the scene before me. [There were plenty of moments where he felt like he would drown from it all, but things as simple as seeing the night sky kept him grounded.

It's the littlest things that really propelled one to keep going.]