Miki was left to watch as the lad accepted he box she'd given him with a bit of hesitation. She wondered if he really understood what she'd meant, maybe he didn't maybe she'd have to explain it a bit further. But, his reddened face and inquisitive nature were something else to deal with in the meantime. It seemed that he was quite surprised by the idea that she'd done such a thing in the name of this particular day, but she'd realized perhaps because of the goodness of this avatar, the 'liteness' of her own personality that her feelings might not have been obvious, nor seemed as focused as they were in her own mind. When asked about the rune, a habit of Miki's or rather of Kimiko's would become rather obvious. The lass would open her mouth to speak and give the necessary information with relative quickness while she turned that single lock of hair in her right hand in a manner most anxious.
"Ah, yeah... it's... Ehwaz... which is the rune which hardens. But... Runes aren't really that simple, like it also means trust, and symbolizes a balanced bond between things, so I could use it to like make my spear do more damage, but I could also use it to balance out a Bounded Field with two really different but equally good other runes involved," she mentioned, she was used to talking so her words didn't falter instead she just said a lot, as if trying to get it all out of her own head. "But... it's more than that... Runes are applied to Druids as part of their baptisms. It turns them into walking Runestones and lets them use 'Free Magic' so Ehwaz is mine..." she mentioned lifting her bangs to show the same mark on her own forehead, glowing sage green. "Well, I didn't really know that when I chose it, it was one of those weird sets of questions you are asked sometimes in games. And it was the one that ended up assigned to me but it really works... because it's... equally shared and freely offered," she mentioned the explanation of it that she'd been given by the rune master because it was the one which let her understand herself the best. "I thought, I'd offer it to you... because I like you... I mean like I actually like you, more and differently than I like my friends," she said looking up her own face flushed intensely but she was already so deep in she thought maybe it wasn't as clear as she thought it had been. "But I realized that might not have been as obvious as I thought it was in my head so... I figured I could show you with the puzzle and you'd understand..." she mentioned seeming more nervous about it than she should have been. Maybe he already understood, all the bits that had gone into the puzzle were chosen with the intention of putting herself out there, and of inviting him into a different kind of equal partnership with her. She'd put a lot of thought into making this her grand romantic gesture, because she wasn't sure if she'd be able to properly explain her own feelings as such. So, she'd decided to show them in a way she didn't think could be misinterpreted.