[All the greats had editors (well, most!) and let's be frank, she'll read it as his mate and then again as his mate but the third or fourth time she'll probably make a lot of corrections and help reprint it. Either way it doesn't really matter, he's her mate and she knows how he works, the way he goes in and out to his own tempo, technical grammar aside she'll still love it just for being what it is.] It's not in here! It would have been too easy to guess. [Unlike Audrey's bike which had been big but was still small enough to be a little inconspicuous. But, yes! The suits, his favorite book, and the tv totaled out her gifts for Masaomi!]

You're going to leave me a hysterical mess at this rate, come on. [She's not entirely wrong because the picture itself is noteworthy. They didn't often go over that time for a lot of reasons: They were new parents, Ada hadn't settled into her skin yet so she was jumpy, Nariko about lost her mind if she was separated from Yamato for too long - but they'd been happy. She'd felt better and safer in those days than she had for most of her childhood, eager for the moment Masaomi returned home. It doesn't take her long to work out the math of the clock itself, though it's reverse counting does throw her off for just a second.]

You always were unfairly creative. [The same person that was a tiny little thing in this picture was no fully grown, a man in his own right. And he'd been relatively prepared to jump on her less than twenty minutes ago. What Nariko takes from that is that everything just goes by too quickly.]

It's perfect. Absolutely, completely perfect.