Dearly Beloved...

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The City didn't have weather as most people knew it, but it was nonetheless a beautiful day - warm weather with a nice breeze, Stacy's sun-equivalent shining in the sky... almost as if it was reflecting the emotions of at least one of the ship's crew. In the middle of the Park, someone had set up a little white lattice archway amongst the hedgerows, decorated with ivy and roses and lilies that looked remarkably real (if they were, in fact, synthetic). In front of the arch were several rows of white chairs, more than enough for anyone who cared to show up.

It was a beautiful day for a wedding.

And frankly, Nanoha needed it. After the chaos and confusion; the rage and terror on Galilee... she didn't think she could ever forget that horrible sense of loss and emptiness when she'd thought that Fate was gone, if only for a day or so. But this would go a long way toward exorcising those demons - a day that she'd dreamed of for years.

Of course, she couldn't go greet anyone yet. She was in her wedding dress, after all! These things needed to be proper.

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"Reinforce!" Nanoha's eyes were still shining as always, but she favored the construct with a warm, beaming smile. "Thank you so much. It really means a lot to us."

"...and when Hayate-chan wakes up again, do you think she'll tease us for it?"

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Rein smiled sadly; her master would surely be upset that she'd missed the occasion.

"I think she'll be too busy pouting and demanding photographs."

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"Oh, that's probably true," Nanoha agreed. "Well, it's a good thing your counterpart's been doing all that work - she won't be able to be mad at us for that!"

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"We'll have to all show her them, together, when she returns..."

She could only hope that day would come. Her master had been taken and returned once, it was true, and there was no reason to believe she would not again, but... still, the girl's absence again allowed in a certain doubt, like a sliver of that hopeless paralysis that had once defined her. Even now, she still found it too easy to expect the worst.

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"That's right," the mage said with a soft smile that maybe bore a hint of wistfulness. "We'll show her, and Vita, and everybody else."

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"Ah... I'm sorry." Rein shook her head. She did not want to infect the celebration with that lingering melancholy of hers, to make her doubts Nanoha's. "You must have the rest of the day before you can start reliving it. I don't want to get you ahead of yourself."