Kanade watched with a blank expression as the last train of the light left the platform, its bell echoing in the midst of the inky blue night sky, dotted with small shining stars. It was one in the morning, currently the time the two had to log onto Nightcord, and it was cold— Kanade and Mafuyu had no way of getting back home at the moment, since their phones were dead. She fiddled with her sweatshirt sleeve for a moment, before glancing at the train timings, blinking her ocean blue eyes and pushing her long azureish white hair out of her face. She wasn’t used to being out so late, even though she was accustomed to being awake at the hour. The next train would arrive at five in the morning, which was.. tomorrow. This was.. not very convenient..

It all started when Nightcord at 25:00 decided to go out to eat dinner together, since they hadn’t gone on an outing in a while. Afterwards, they had went to the mall— Mizuki needed to return a makeup product. One thing went to another, and before they knew it, it was already late at night. The illustrator and animator left the composer and lyricist alone, and due to their lack of navigation skills in this part of town, the pair had arrived at the station after quite a while.

Turning to a unfazed Mafuyu, Kanade frowned slightly, feeling the cold nip at her bare legs. It seemed as if they were stranded here for a while, so she did the logical thing and moved to gently hold her hand— frail, delicate yet warm fingers wrapping around Mafuyu’s more larger and slender ones, trying to provide her with some warmth, even if she had just only started feeling the numbness of the cold recently.

“..Mafuyu.. are you cold?”