[ She almost visibly starts at his line of questioning. Almost being the operative word. She can't let him see how rattled it has her. ]
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What you're asking is purely hypothetical of course?
[ The truth is... well, perhaps she's a little more aware of what she's been doing than he realises. There might have been another morning, a couple of days prior, where Mitsuru had woken to find herself very much not on her side of the bed.
She had moved, eventually. Somehow, without waking Akihiko. Or at least she thought she had. Perhaps he'd known all along... or perhaps she had done it again. ]
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What you're asking is purely hypothetical of course?
[ The truth is... well, perhaps she's a little more aware of what she's been doing than he realises. There might have been another morning, a couple of days prior, where Mitsuru had woken to find herself very much not on her side of the bed.
She had moved, eventually. Somehow, without waking Akihiko. Or at least she thought she had. Perhaps he'd known all along... or perhaps she had done it again. ]