Thank you all for the kind words, favorites, and follows. Here's another small drabble. I know I've focused a bit more on Naru than Mai in these last two, but I have one planned out that's a bit more Mai centric for next time.

The wedding of Mai Taniyama and Dr. Oliver Davis was a strange affair... well, even stranger than one would expect from a wedding where almost all of the wedding guests were involved in paranormal research.

The groom's guestlist was quite large, inviting many old colleagues from the BSPR and friends of the family as was required by the etiquette set by the groom's parents. Meanwhile, the bride's guestlist was a small thing. It was made mostly of the staff from the Japanese branch of SPR though some friends from her school days made it out too, but many of her friends from Japan couldn't fly to England and she had no family there whatsoever. It was for this reason that they did away with Bride or Groom sides, and everyone was free to sit where they wished. Most guests understood the reasoning behind this.

The ceremony was also conducted by an Australian priest, though neither bride nor groom where religious, let alone Catholic. And it wasn't even a religious ceremony to begin with! It was for this reason that the wedding was short; it was just a few minutes shy of being "Do you? Do you? Now kiss," extended only for the niceties. Many guests couldn't figure out, "why a priest?" but there were whispers among them explaining that the kind, young priest was a friend of the couple and was doing the ceremony as a favor.

But what almost no one understood, beyond a very small select few, was why the groom kept one of his hands in his pocket for most of the ceremony. Some explained it away by nerves. Many explained it away by thinking that the groom didn't really care about all of the pageantry and the ceremony was purely for his new wife's sake. While this was true, it wasn't the reason Naru kept his hand in his pocket for most of the wedding, even to the point of awkwardness.

The handful of those who were "in-the-know" were aware that in his pocket was a small mirror. He kept touching it in order to make sure his Best Man could stand with him on his wedding day.