#toaballleif

[gentlenekomata]

[ Pause ] - and become frozen in time, paralyzed while an elemental dips their hand in to rearrange the furniture. The music, inexplicably, changes to a jaunty tune…

“ Sorry, I need to reach past you real qu— ” Leif begins to say before time stops and a new music begins to play, furniture moving about and plates being taken off the ground away from entranceways by an elemental hand.

The unfortunate part? Leif realizes as he was doing this, his hand had begun to slip awkwardly and was about to spill the glass of champagne he was aiming for right onto Sakura's dress. Time remains still, but being conscious of it is all the more anxiety building as he tries to plan a route out of this fate he sees now.

And it is when time finally returns to normal that Leif quickly reangles his hand to avoid that disaster, going straight into a completely different one: the champagne glass is pulled the opposite way with such sudden, intense force that its rim collides with the other glasses around it, and although Sakura remains unscathed, shards of glass sparkle as a few of them break and spill across the table.

“ …Damn it. ”

A faint voice was all Sakura could heard before everything happened past her eyes: suddenly, time began to proceed veeery slowly and everything around her became soft and light, hovering in the air as if they were made of a tender and delicate soap bubble. Sakura, for a moment, remained ecstatic in front of that beautiful and idyllic scenery, as if even her was captured by the slowness of the area, but soon after, she realized with much fear in her eyes, that some glasses broke in the air, budging against each other; in the very same moment, time returned to its normal flow and the same unknown figure from before came to her rescue, preventing the petite priestess to crash against those sparkling glasses.

Time has returned to normality and the fragile silhouette of the girl was still lying onto his chest, a little shaky but reassured to be safe. “Thank you for saving me, Mister..?�� she stopped for a moment, realizing she did not know the name of her saviour.