Mako admitted she’d been afraid her sketches were too small to matter. Hinata laughed, and the laugh was softer than the one she used in public. “Let me be your audience,” she said simply. “But only if you let me keep asking questions.”

Mako’s surprise was small: a hand-written menu item off the cuff, a citrus-honey americano with a thin slice of candied yuzu perched on the rim. Hinata’s sunglasses slipped down as she tasted it; for a beat, she was just a customer discovering a new favorite.

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