Gorgeous work. I love stories which take an unflinching look at moral ambivalence and provide no easy answers. The structure is beautiful, too, how you've brought in flashbacks of past conversations and how they are cast in a prescient, sinister light with all the changes that happened when Aya was asleep. I like how that becomes another reason why she doesn't press Kritiker in order to reconnect with Ran. It is a lovely, layered story.