Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: Wondering

[jordannamorgan]

Title: Wondering
Author: jordannamorgan
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Rating/Warnings: G.
Characters: Takumi and Ikoma.
Setting: Pre-canon.
Summary: Takumi resolves to crack the shell of a solitary young refugee who has arrived at Aragane Station.
Disclaimer: They belong to Kabaneri Committee and other relevant parties. I’m just playing with them.
Notes: This work was inspired by Vathara’s story “Sweeten the Bitter Dregs”. (Which incidentally is the best KotIF fic out there, and one of the best fanfics I’ve read all-time. Seriously, go read it when you’re done here.) That story offered an explanation for Ikoma’s one-lensed eyeglasses that made so much sense, it became instant headcanon for me. Having thus gained a why for the glasses, I wanted to explore how he actually came into possession of them; and naturally, I felt Takumi must have had something to do with that.
Submitted for the prompt word “Generosity” at fan_flashworks, because dear Takumi is the very definition thereof.

( Another station had fallen. )