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True Affection Chapter 4 -- Darkness. Embossed by gritty ebony and silent despair, Misa slept. Her silken locks lay strewn about her face and around her head like a soft tasseled halo. The small cold stone slab of a bed that was assigned to her hardly took any weight from the slumbering girl resting atop it. It appeared almost as if Misa were floating. A short distance away from her, on the other side of her dwelling, the silhouette of a certain detective flickered against the walls in the pale window light. L's sharp eyes meticulously glided over Misa's curled form; caressing her smooth skin and becoming submerged within her golden t

-The Cause- A commotion on the deck woke her from her unplanned nap.  There was the usual jabbering in a mix of Japanese and English from her parents, obviously angry. It wasn't yet loud enough for her to understand their words, but if it carried on the way their arguments used to it wouldn't be too long. It would take more than a little time to become re-accustomed to her life here, but if she was to believe everything they told her...  She would have plenty of time to get used to it, the rest of her life to be precise. She buries her head in a pillow and pulls another up over her unusually placed ears and prepares to wait it out. And then