Shoko listened intently. It was quite interesting. Sometimes she wondered what it would be like to grow up with a mother and a father. Then, she'd think that she had a father who did everything he could with an "uncle" who treated her like an actual relative and she really couldn't ask for anything more. But as she mentioned to Alice, she would just like to meet her mother just once to get confirmation.
"Why did you come to the surface?" Shoko asked as she tilted her head to the side. Xander seemed to be a quite interesting fellow. Her life seemed so mundane in comparison. She spent most of her life in the northern sea port of Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Then she spent a year at Tokyo University before transferring to Harvard then she came to Halcyon. Not that exciting.
Then, she saw him lean in closer to the point she could sense his warm breath on her cheeks and could almost feel the warmth from his lips. Her heart raced and the idea struck her initially as not a bad idea but logic is a stronger pull. She recalled the moment she pulled away from Soujiro with ice blue lips and suddenly she got really cold, like someone was quickly shoved into a freezer. Her eyes flashed the grayish blue again. She shook her head furiously, "No, no, no...." She let go of him and turned around to head out of the room.