Title: Return to the Scene of the Rhythm
Fandom: 9th Elsewhere (Webcomic)
Author: silveradept
Rating: G
Pairing: Carmen Cinea & Eiji Miyake
Summary: After being fired from O.R.M.Y.!, Eiji goes home, has dinner with his mother, and then returns to Carmen's dreamscape with the intent of providing her with something neither of them have had much of in their lives—a friend.
Content Notice: While 9th Elsewhere is a story of psychology, foster care, being a different child than the typical, and coping mechanisms, there are no things referenced directly that would warrant content warnings.
Disclaimer: N/A.
Author's Note: The following fragment of poetry was the prompt:

From Langston Hughes, Dust Bowl,

The land wants me to come back
To a broken song in October,
to a snowbird on the wing.
The land wants me to come back.

Word Count: 1865

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