Waiting For You (for WorldEnder)

Ort liked her current perch. It gave her a very good view of the sleeping girl's face.

"So pretty..."

She was currently straddling Leiko's stomach. The position looked quite like a mixed martial arts straddle. But the dark-haired, ruby-eyed girl didn't intend violence this time, though she appeared to be one of the mythical ghosts from Leiko's culture, the demon children that weighed down sleepers' chests, depriving them of breath and even life. She seemed very fond of her perch, even,

The two were inside the Infirmary. The nurses had left. Ort remained.

"Wake up, Leiko," she cooed.

Almost after Ort's words, Leiko's eyes started fluttering, as if she unconsciously obeyed her words. She coughed after she got some of her consciousness awake, still having an effect from that choking K.O and how Ort was sitting on top of her chest. When her vision was fixed, her eyes immediately opened wide with a gasp as if she really did saw a ghost. She didn't move as she eyed the kawaii girl. "W-What do you want?" She said, a few sweat running down the side of her head.

Ort beamed. As if she had just been offered a great big Christmas gift early. Which she apparently regarded Leiko as. And she said, simply:

"You."

Immediately, almost by instinct, Leiko's eyes widened once more and her right hand jolted as she quickly aimed for a punch right across Ort's cheek, just trying to get her off of her.

Laughing eerily, Ort leapt off Leiko, off the bed, her undone hair defying gravity. She ended up crouched at the foot of the bed, crimson eyes sparkling with amusement. "Is that a rejection of my confession of love?" she giggled. "I'm heartbroken already..."

Leiko coughed a bit after Ort got off, finally getting a better breathing pattern. She slowly move her upper body up and then crawl back a bit, trying to keep some distance away from Ort as she held her guard up. "I only wanted to be friends with you, not your love crush."

Ort laughed anew in that inhuman way of hers. "Then you have nothing to worry," she said as she straightened up and made a show of dusting her thighs. "I only have eyes for my sweet sister Cerbera. Still-"

She curtsied, though her extremely short skirt made the gesture look strange.

"-we may be friends if you truly wish," Ort whispered.

Leiko merely narrowed her eyes at Ort's words. "I don't trust you one bit. Your actions does not seem to be friendly at all, instead, more like actions of slavery. I would be friends with you, only if I have an answer to my question. How? How can I trust you?" She asked.

Ort's eyes seemed to glitter in amusement. She held a hand up to her left ponytail. Soon her hair hung loose on that side of her head, while the ribbon dangled from her fingers.

"I have very few precious things, you see. I do not like to lose them. So I guard them very jealously."

She offered the ribbon to Leiko.

"This is one of my precious things. It may not seem like much to you, but please accept my gift. You do not have to see me as your friend, but I would be happy if you accepted it."

This she said with childlike innocence and faith in Leiko.

Leiko was slightly confused. She couldn't figure out Ort's motives. Or, she's probably just over-thinking it. However, when she thought about it, she didn't think anything significantly bad will happen if she tried to know Ort a little better. She took the ribbon from the smaller girl's hands. "Thank you... Now, what are you going to do now?" She said with a hint of caution in her voice.