glitteringstars | FIC: Prickly Feelings

Title: Prickly Feelings

Fandom: Xenoblade Chronicles (series)

Characters: Sena, Mio (mentioned), Other characters mentioned

Prompts: #25: thistle (100ships)

Author’s Notes: Set early in XB3. This is meant to be a one-sided Sena/Mio, but can be read as platonic as well.

Sena’s muscles ached from the exertion of her daily exercise. The warhammer slipped from her grasp, and disappeared back into the air.

Damn it, damn it, damn it.

She collapsed where she stood, staring up at the starry sky. Her daily paces were supposed to work these feelings out of her system. It always did the trick, so why didn’t it work today?

Sena’s lungs burned as she caught her breath. Her arms and legs tingled with exhaustion, yet those feelings of jealousy were caught in her chest, as if they were cloth caught on thistles. No, if anything, the feelings were more tangled than they should have been.

Mio and Noah. It only made sense they were supposed to get close. They were Ouroboros partners, after all! Like Taion and Eunie. Like her and Lanz. (Hopefully? Eventually?) Sharing one body, one mind. It wasn’t like Mio was disappearing from her life.

Sena squeezed her eyes shut.

It was just like that time when Miyabi was assigned as Mio’s understudy. Those ugly, thorny, catchy feelings prickled and tore at her skin until Sena became friends with Miyabi. She was friends with Noah. He was nice and kind and attentive to everyone’s feelings. Sena liked him. Mio liked him.

Yet, why did it feel like Sena was losing her only friend?