>>2373187

It’s to be expected, you imagine. This in particular is a place of obvious power.

Your task, and the garment, are eventually complete. The small boxes upon the drier areas of this space are emptied, and in the fading light of the spring this hole in the earth looks almost comfortable.

Bidding the girls a pleasant evening, you disembark from the campus of the Zodiac Academy for Girls and find some means of normalcy or stealth in returning home for the evening. In working on these magical clothes, you had in part been taking up a request from Midori to not run around so frantically to the point of near exhaustion. And here you are, coming home at a reasonable hour on a Sunday night without being exhausted or injured or emotionally drained.

From home, through the miracles of technology, you have some time to either yourself or to put toward making sure things are in order.

>Unwind, actually try to unwind and relax alone for a bit
>Check in on your sister, see if she wants to hang out or something
>Get in touch with Sasha and Saori, see how things went at the Big Egg complex today, and let them know you have something for both of them
>Get in touch with Keiko and Midori, they might be on overlap right now, see how the stake out is going
>It’s not so late, just after dinner, it’s not out of the ordinary to maybe call someone to talk, like perhaps Yoshi.
>Get on the group chat and get the news for ongoing Fashion Circle shenanigans, especially now that Hanako isn’t possessed and going crazy
>Write in

>>2373189
>>Check in on your sister, see if she wants to hang out or something

>>2373189
>Check in on your sister, see if she wants to hang out or something

Alright, Imouto times.

“I’m home,” you announce, slipping out of your shoes and setting the bag containing two neatly folded parcels of ensorcelled clothes into the closet by the door.

You are greeted evenly as you see the small red eyed child, Kalyke, sleeping peacefully with her head on your father’s shoulder as he sits on the couch, with an open manilla folder in his hand and an open briefcase on the coffee table next to a sleeping Luna.

“Welcome home, productive day?” your father questions, sparing a glance up from whatever he is reviewing before closing the folder and setting it down.

“I think so,” you smile sharply and cross the room toward the stairs, ruffling the toddler’s sleepy hair as you pass, “is Koyomi home?”

“Upstairs,” your father shrugs and braces the child with both arms as he stands before offering her to you, “Would you mind putter her down on the way?”

“Sure,” you shrug and carefully take the child as you ascend the stairs.

After setting Kalyke down in the old crib, you spin toward your younger sister’s door and find it open. Koyomi is kneeling on her bed, facing the window, with her phone nigh cradled against her cheek.

“Nu-uh!” your younger sister exclaims and shakes her head, sending her blonde twin tails of hair fluttering behind her.

“Hey,” you call out to let her know you’re there and her conversation, whatever it may be, is no longer private.

Your sister pauses, turns to see you in the door, and then back down at her phone.

“I’ll call you back later,” she offers quickly before ending the call and greeting you cheerfully, “Hey Mikage-nee, what’s up?”

Across from her, you sort of shrug.

“Just saying hi, wanted to know if you wanted to hang out or anything,” you explain.

“So, there’s no emergency?” she questions, “Magical or otherwise?”

>>2373872

“Not that I know of right now...but there’s always tomorrow,” you sigh, “Midori has been wanting me to take it easy, so everyone on my end has divvied up all the run around work I tend to lose myself in...so I have the night to relax. Are you free to hangout or do you have plans?”

Your younger sister kicks her legs out from where they rest under her, now sitting on her bed rather than kneeling. Crossing her arms and closing her eyes in thought, she seems to consider your query and offer before snapping her fingers and pointing at you with decided mock aggression.

“Mikage-nee, tonight we resume the contest you left behind years ago,” she declares sharply but with the broadest smile, “Boardgames!”

“Sounds like a plan,” you nod firmly as your sister dives for her closet and begins pushing small boxes of art supplies out of the way and digging up a few familiar and dinged up boxes you haven’t seen in quite a while.

As your sister lists what she has available, the two of you wind up settling on a few games of battleship. Analog

>Focus on the game, and destroying your sister’s fleet
>Suggest the game be made interesting, actively try to use your awakened psychic powers and encourage Koyomi to try and do the same
>Casual conversation, ask after he classes and her friends
>So, what was up with that phone call?
>See how things are going between her and Koito
>Write in

>>2373879
>>Suggest the game be made interesting, actively try to use your awakened psychic powers and encourage Koyomi to try and do the same

>>2373879
So, we're here to chill out. We can
>See how things are going between her and Koito
while playing a game.

>>2373879
>Casual conversation, ask after he classes and her friends

>>2373879
>Suggest the game be made interesting, actively try to use your awakened psychic powers and encourage Koyomi to try and do the same
>Casual conversation, ask after he classes and her friends

>>2373879
>>2373945
Sounds good.

Rolled , , , , , = 0 (6d0)

Alright, looks like we got casual conversation and making this a psychic game.

I need 3 rolls of dice+2d20

Rolled 19, 8, 10, 14, 16, 9 = 76 (6d20)

mucked that up because I am distracted by delicious taco adjacent products made of my future regrets. trying again.

How is everyone tonight, I know its been a while but I still enjoy hearing how things are going for everyone.

Rolled 4, 13 = 17 (2d20)

>>2374240
Here's one.

Rolled 6, 8 = 14 (2d20)

>>2374240

Rolled 20, 15 = 35 (2d20)

>>2374240
>Rolled , , , , , = 0 (6d0)
I guess someone superfailed.

>>2374249
Well enough. How are things going with you?

>>2374309
Things are alright, still looking to switch jobs. Trying my hand at combining my professional abilities and my hobby. And feeling a great sense of closure now that the religious aspect of my divorce joins the concluded civil matter behind me that may finally open me up to being able to moving forward.

Rolled 5, 5 = 10 (2d20)

>>2374240

Sorry for the writing delay...can't seem to find a long misplaced character name.

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As your younger sister hurriedly sets up the two folding boards of the game on the floor, double checking the volume of each set of pieces, a thought strikes you. The two of you are both possessed of psychic abilities similar to those of your father...why not use this game to help push Koyomi’s more recent awakening of those abilities?

“Say, let’s make this game a bit more interesting,” you offer your younger sister a devious smile while laying out the pieces of assorted nautical cruisers on your board’s grid.

Your sister peaks up from behind the screen of her board, laying low on her stomach while you’re merely sitting.

“How so?” she questions, dubious of your intentions.

“Well, we use it to test powers,” you explain and hold up your carrier, “Namely, the psychic potential we woke up inside you that morning on the bench. Let’s see how clearly we can see the others board, take a bit of the guesswork out of the game and speed things up,”

She considers your offer for a moment before agreeing with a smile.

“You’re on,” she exclaims, but deflates a little, “That kills the tension though,”

“We’ll end on a fair round,” you offer, “Just a few like this beforehand to gauge where we both are,”

“Deal!” she extends her hand, the two of your shake on it and begin your game.

Numbers and letters come quickly from both of you, after a few seconds concentrating each turn...well each of your sisters turns. She lags a bit behind you, but clearly has your board in view after the first two misses.

You haven’t missed since turn one. The correct targets are painted to you in an illusory map.

“B5,” you state and then wonder, there is a lot going on with Koyomi outside of the usual magical saga that is your family and immediate friends, “How’s school, anything going on with your friends who aren’t involved in all of this?”

“Hit,” she replies in a grouse, frustration as she imagines you saw her board faster than she was able to see your own, “It’s going okay, I’m missing art club more often than not, but I’m still able to hang out there when I can. Also, my teachers haven’t been on my back as much lately so that’s good. C3,”

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>>2375068

“Hit,” you nod, “Actually being focused in class does tend to get teachers to back off the pressure,”

“Yeah, well. Lui-Sensei seemed really smug about my change in behavior before,” she huffs, “but actually trying in class is so draining...luckily I’ve got a secret weapon to keep my energy up. A5,”

“Hit, sunk,” you explain, she took out one of your smaller ships but at this point you’re well ahead of her, “And that secret weapon is?”

“Koito has been bringing me espresso truffles,” she smiles, “His own recipe. They’re so creamy...though can I talk to you about something. Something else,”

“Shoot,” you offer, while fidgeting a red hitmarker between your fingers.

“I think some people are bullying Kanari-chan and Koito-chan,” she offers in a serious sigh, “And I don’t know what to do,”

“What happened?” you have experience being bullied, and know how to take the best kinds of revenge.

You pause in the back and forth of the game a bit as Koyomi explains what’s been going on. Apparently some girls in the basketball club with Kanari Kino have it out for her and Koito for their father being a Brazilian Sansei. She admits that’s what she was talking to a classmate about before you arrived. That word was slipping around the grapevine that the ringleader of this dislike was prepping for a particularly harsh prank. She’s going to tell Kanari and Koito her intel on this first thing in the morning, but beyond that she’s a bit lost.

>Do you want me to do anything?
>Offer kindly sisterly advice about supporting Kanari & Koito however they want to approach this, sincerely.
>Offer that kindly sisterly advice, but make a note to enact your own reprisal.
>What are you going to do about it?
>How have Kanari and Koito handled it?
>Don’t suffer threats to those you love.
>Write in

>>2375077
>>How have Kanari and Koito handled it?
>>Offer kindly sisterly advice about supporting Kanari & Koito however they want to approach this, sincerely.

>>2375077
>How have Kanari and Koito handled it?

Slow thread, are there just not many following this quest anymore?

>>2375077
>How have Kanari and Koito handled it?

>>2375106
Let's face it, I'm months between threads these days and I don't keep a straight schedule.

Alright, writing.

>>2375133
Real shame seeing as you're one of my favorite quest runners.

>>2375419
Fan myself as well. Just double booked and not able to participate as hard as I'd like.

>>2375419
Same here.

>>2375419
>>2375428
>>2375434
Well, that warms my heart, truly. Though while I run quests less these days I'm still working on other game adjacent projects on twitch, which I have shared on this quest's twitter. Thanks to those of you who've already checked it out...just...sorry for the audio quality from the first filming date.

“How are Kanari and Koito handling it?” you ask with certain reticence, being no stranger to being on the receiving end of similar behavior even if you did just shrug it off.

Koyomi pouts before offering a sigh. As she orders her thoughts she curls her knees up under herself and to her chest, shifting from being splayed out on the floor of her room to sitting.

“Koito doesn’t deal with it as much anymore, he used to always seemed to take it in stride. There was a kid a few years ago who wouldn’t leave him alone about it enough to end up in a fight,” she explains, “After that he and the kid got along, but that’s just because they’re boys,”

“Yeah,” you nod, “And Kanari?”

Koyomi shakes her head.

“Getting violent won’t work, and she knows it. This girl, Kujo-san, she doesn’t seem to let up. And I know she’s upped her focus on Kanari since Koito and I started dating,” Koyomi seems uncomfortable with this.

Kujo-san? No one you know, but a name is enough to find something out later if you’re so inclined.

There’s a sense of helplessness coming from your little sister you aren’t accustomed to seeing from her.

“Kanari just grits her teeth and rolls with it, tries to shut it out and grit her teeth. She won’t be surprised about this,” she explains, “and I want to do something other than telling her...but I don’t think she wants the help. And I don’t think she’d forgive me if I made a scene,”

>sometimes all you can do is let her know you have her back
>I’ve gone around my friends a few times, and they me, none of us were happy
>It doesn’t matter if she won’t forgive you, you protect her like you know she’d protect you without a second thought
>After you tell her, see what she wants to do.
>write in

>>2375722
>>It doesn’t matter if she won’t forgive you, you protect her like you know she’d protect you without a second thought
Last vote from me for tonight

>>2375722
>I’ve gone around my friends a few times, and they me, none of us were happy

Leaving the vote opened a touch longer before calling it.

Alright, writing.

Mulling over this matter in your mind, you know exactly what you’d do. You’ve done it before, though without any thought to what you or anyone else thought. Then again, in explicitly private matters…you set the red hitmarker back into the tray of your board.

You’re ultimately of two minds about this.

“It doesn't matter if she won’t forgive you,” you begin strongly, “you protect her like you know she’d protect you. Without a second thought,”

Then you pause, you have the second thought you would not likely take in the moment.

“At least, that’s me in the heat of things. Since having friends again I’ve gone around their wishes a few times, and they went around mine in turn. None of us were very happy with that,” you reason.

“Yeah, I heard about some of that,” she offers, “And, I guess I wanted to know how you’d handle it,”

“Head on and with no regrets in the moment,” you nod firmly, “Then again, you clearly want to do something,”

She sits there a moment, wringing her pigtails before releasing her grip and nodding firmly.

“Yeah, and I think I’ve made up my mind on what to do,” she reasons, “Thanks Mikage-nee,”

“Anytime...now, where we? I think I was about to sink something of yours,” you offer seriously before grinning broadly.

“Nooooooo! I’m not going down without a fight!”

True to form you finish both games with precognitive competitiveness the victor. However the round without is far more tense, which honestly does add to the atmosphere as your sister earlier suggested. The evening winds down, and you retire to your room a little upset to learn that Kanari is being bullied.

Musing about how many different ways you could intervene...but knowing that Koyomi and likely Kanari herself are going to handle this matter on their own.

...still.

Well, tomorrow is Monday. You’ll be getting reports from the Stake Out team and the Big Egg Complex Investigation team tomorrow, and then plot your next big moves from there. You have matters with the four shadows and Amazonite to yet contend with…

Maybe you’ll pop over to see how things go tomorrow during free period?

Or maybe…

Eclipsed Moon Quest 154
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Resume or new thread Monday late afternoon or night

>>2376396
Thanks for running.
I can’t decide if the trouble Kanari and Koito are having is the result of a monster, or just kids being mean.

>>2376422
Welcome

Looking like it's going to be Tuesday Night. Not Monday.

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“Nooooooo! I’m not going down without a fight!”

True to form you finish both games with precognitive competitiveness the victor. However the round without is far more tense, which honestly does add to the atmosphere as your sister earlier suggested. The evening winds down, and you retire to your room a little upset to learn that Kanari is being bullied.

Musing about how many different ways you could intervene...but knowing that Koyomi and likely Kanari herself are going to handle this matter on their own.

...still.

Well, tomorrow is Monday. You’ll be getting reports from the Stake Out team and the Big Egg Complex Investigation team tomorrow, and then plot your next big moves from there. You have matters with the four shadows and Amazonite to yet contend with…

Maybe you’ll pop over to see how things go tomorrow during free period?

Or maybe…you could take half and ignore half of your own advice.

For all the difficulty that you’ve had with Kanari, the way you’ve butt heads ever since she became the new Sailor Jupiter, she and her brother are still someone whose wellbeing and welfare you care about deeply. This would be bully needs to be taken down a peg.

Several pegs, perhaps?

As you sit on your bed and contemplate this, you are left with a choice to turn in for the night or go out and put fear into someone.

>Koyomi came to you for advice, there’s something she wants to do so you won’t interfere. For now it’s bedtime.
>Scaring a bully before bed seems innocuous enough, from a casual misuse of magic standpoint.
>Drop in on the Kino household and see if you can get Kanari’s perspective on these events.
>Intercept Koito Kino on his way to provide snack relief to tonight’s stake out shift and get his opinion and perspective.
>Write in

>>2384655
>>Koyomi came to you for advice, there’s something she wants to do so you won’t interfere. For now it’s bedtime.

>>2384655
>Intercept Koito Kino on his way to provide snack relief to tonight’s stake out shift and get his opinion and perspective.

>>2384655
>Intercept Koito Kino on his way to provide snack relief to tonight’s stake out shift and get his opinion and perspective.
Hey Art, I just wanted to also say that you're doing an awesome job with this quest

>>2384655
>Intercept Koito Kino on his way to provide snack relief to tonight’s stake out shift and get his opinion and perspective.

Alright, Writing.

As you sit on your bed...you feel a bit restless. More than that, you feel a bit under informed on this issue, and how it affects both of the Kino twins. Both of them friends, one a Sailor Senshi and the other among your own Knights.

Mulling over a weak justification regarding the responsibilities toward one’s vassal, you slip downstairs, grab your shoes and a light jacket, and shoot out into the night.

Shooting a text to Koito to find out what’s going on, and where he currently is, you find that your Zoisite Knight is currently on the way home from the stake out park. He had been providing a nap break for the current shift, along with a thermos of freshly brewed coffee and snacks. Crossing town quickly and quietly in the night, as you have become rather adept at doing, you meet up with him as he walks down the stairs of the neighborhood transit stop.

“Evening, Chiba-san,” the younger boy offers calmly as, stopping in front of you beneath the beam of a street light, “What did you want to talk about?”

“I heard something from Koyomi tonight,” you begin, “actually, she wanted my advice...and it made me want to check in on you, maybe ask a few questions,”

The brunette haired boy’s posture stiffens slightly.

“Well, I...that is to say,” his normal demeanor cracks, at least in his voice as he glances askance and blushes a bit,”

Wait, what does he think you wanted to talk about?

>He thinks this is about...him and Koyomi?! Adorable, engage big sister teasing mode
>Cut to the chase, you know that Kanari and he are being bullied, what’s the deal?
>Belay his fears, this is about the flak he and Kanari get at school. And how both of you are dealing with it.
>Write in

>>2384972
>>Belay his fears, this is about the flak he and Kanari get at school. And how both of you are dealing with it.

>>2384972
>Belay his fears, this is about the flak he and Kanari get at school. And how both of you are dealing with it.
A weak justification is the responsibilities toward one’s vassal.
A real justification is concern for a friend.

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>>2384990

Alright, Writing

Aw, looks like I would have been outvoted on the teasing.

As amusing as it would be to tease your little sister’s boyfriend, he is also your friend. A friend who you’re worried about.

A reason, more than an excuse, concern for a friend.

You laugh to yourself a moment, because it would be so amusing. There is not escaping the impish impulses that have been brought back into you by healing long held schisms, but that’s all they are sometimes. Sighing and steeling yourself for something serious, you engage with your younger friend.

“No, Koito, it's not about you and Koyomi,” you offer to belay his sudden fears, “Unless there is something for me to be concerned about?”

“No, nothing of the sort,” he offers, composing himself.

“Good,” you nod sharply and with a playfully certain before taking on a softer concern, “She told me about what Kanari has been dealing with at school recently. And what you’ve had to deal with before,”

You let it hang there a moment. A pause to let it sink in, or to properly leave him time to understand your implication before you continue. His expression, a mix of embarrassed upset, says that he does.

“How is she dealing with it?” you ask with a soft voice, “Koyomi gave the impression that you were alright, but I also wanted to hear how you were doing,”

Koito sighs, and walks past you a bit. At first you think he’s brushing you off and continuing home, but he turns and leans against the street light. His back sliding down as she crouches to sit on the broader base.

“I’m...I’m fine. I’ve been fine,” he explains evenly, “I know how to deal with those feelings and anyone who causes them. She doesn’t have the same options I did, and doesn’t like talking about it after the fact,”

“She wears it on her sleeve though?” you reason, having known Kanari for year.

“She wears a lot of things on her sleeve,” he shrugs, “Like her pride on having early acceptance for high school. Trying harder and having pride is how she deals...but a few girls in the basketball club haven’t let up on her, and she can only try to ignore them,”

“She really laid into me a little while back, when she was mad I quit being Sailor Moon,” you nod, “With no fear, why is she holding back with this girls?”

“Because that makes them win. Gives them more ammunition. And…,” he pauses and nods, “As mad as she thinks she was at you, I think she was crying out for help the best way she knew how. As a challenge to someone who could take it,”

>>2385242

You nod. Just another facet in the lives of messed up teenagers.

It isn’t a monster. It isn’t some cosmic calamity.

Its normal. Small, but the whole world from eye level. Its something human.

“And frankly, I think everything she’s been doing with Koyomi and the girls,” he reasons and looks up at the sky, “It's been good for her. An outlet that isn’t hitting the heavy bag until…”

Koito pauses. He weighs something in his mind that he isn’t sure he can say, but spares you a long and trusting glance before finding some measure of resolve.

“Until she thinks no one can hear her cry over her tempo,” he sets his jaw but nods firmly, “She bottles it, stores it. She doesn’t like letting anybody in about it, not even me. If Koyomi’s has it in her head to do something...I hope it doesn’t wound Kanari’s pride,”

Kneeling down beside your friend, your knight, you set a hand on his shoulder before pulling him up into a hug.

”You know what happens when Koyomi gets an idea in her head. Believe in her,”

“I do,” he offers softly as the two of you part, “You know I do, although,”

“Hmm?”

“What are you going to do?” he questions.

“I don’t quite know yet,” you offer, innocently.


“Well, whatever is about to happen, mom always says too many cooks spoil the broth,” he squares his shoulders, not necessarily trying to look cool despite using a dated metaphor, but probably.

Offering a nod and a good night, the two of you go your separate ways. There is much to consider in the next day, a school day at that.

So you sleep, deeply but with a decidedly heavy heart.

And after your morning routine of action, of a light run and a shower you find yourself…

>In homeroom early, knowing that this is their challenge and that it’s best not to intrude
>Waiting by the gate to the middle school to see if you can talk to Kanari this morning, discreetly
>Cutting class using your magical stealth powers to more directly monitor, spy on, the situation Koyomi and Kanari find themselves in.
>Searching for the girl Koyomi named, because pride or no there is a toll to be paid
>Write in

>>2385249
>Waiting by the gate to the middle school to see if you can talk to Kanari this morning, discreetly

Extending the voting window.

>>2385249
>Waiting by the gate to the middle school to see if you can talk to Kanari this morning, discreetly
No reason to intervene just yet, but should still get her take on the situation.

Writing. Final update for the night.

It’s early, and your own school gate is across the street of a road that ends against the shared athletic fields between the highschool and the middle school. As you drift there this morning, you lean against the wall you helped Koyomi leap not even a few days ago.

There is something calming to watch people drift past for a bit. Familiar and unfamiliar. Your own classmates, people from other classes, underclassmen, upperclassmen, and the students of the middle school.

As you wait, you’d rather not get too involved in anything. Slipping into the subtle power of your disguise field, you allow yourself to become a cipher to those who pass, becoming unnoticed in plain sight.

At least, you hold this power until you hear the approaching buzz of the vespa.

Kanari rounds the corner down the center of the street towards the two schools. Slowing down at approach to the morning crowd of students before dismounting and walking her bike to the gate.

Dropping the field, you meet her halfway to the gate from where she stopped riding.

“Morning,” you greet her with a wave as she pauses at your approach, and then stores her helmet in a compartment underneath the seat of her conveyance.

“Morning,” she replies, uncertain, before questioning “Where you waiting for me?”

“Yes,” you nod sharply, “I was. Do you have a few minutes to talk?”

Kanari, unless other errands consume her time or specific arrangements are made with Koyomi, is usually early for school to your knowledge. That in mind, Koyomi is still probably a ways behind. When you were leaving earlier she was just lurching her way downstairs.

“Yeah, sure,” she nods.

“Somewhere a bit less open,” you explain and she nods as her eyes widen a bit, thinking this might be something sensitive to the ongoing secrets in your lives.

As she locks her bike outside the main door, she leads you over to an alcove on the side of the building, looking up you imagine that you are near the place you caught Estra’s siblings playing children’s card games.

“What’s up?” she questions once the two of you are alone, quick to business and perhaps eager for an excuse to action.

“Koyomi and I were talking last night,” you open carefully, aware you could be walking into a mine field, “And she was worried about you. About some of the things you’re going through. So, I’m just here to see if you’re okay or if there’s anything you wanted to talk about,”

The brunette girl before you closes off her body language almost immediately.

>>2385560

“She asked you to talk to me?” she asks, but with an accusatory tone.

“No,” you offer, “She asked me what she should do. If she should do something,”

You muse a moment on what Koyomi had said. She was going to tell Kanari about what she had learned in rumor first thing...the specifics of which are still lost to you. Still, her posture loses some of it’s edge at your admission and relaxes a bit.

“You didn’t tell her to show up dressed as a yankee and start smacking people?” she laughs at the thought of your sister trying to imitate one of the ways you dealt with tragedy, which honestly garners a laugh from you as well, “because that might just confuse the people I’ve been having trouble with enough to get them to lay off for a while,”

“No, nothing so specific,” you let your tone grow a bit more serious, “I just told her to protect you without a second thought the same way you’d protect her,”

She nods at that, but shakes her head.

“That’s nice and all, but I don’t need protection right now,” she huffs and crosses her arms, “It’s just schoolyard stuff and it’ll pass. You didn’t need to go so far to come and check on me,”

“Hey, I thought you wanted me to get back out there and stand with all of you out in the open,” you chide her to what you can remember from her once attempt at scolding you whilst you lay in the hospital, “Well, this is what you get. Me caring and probably sticking my nose into other peoples business,”

Kanari rolls her eyes and curses something in Portuguese. Perhaps more at her own rising embarrassment than any upset or anger.

“Whatever,” she mumbles, “I appreciate it,”

Victory.

“And at least right now, I don’t want to talk about it,” she explains, “but later,”

“That’s fine. Whenever you’re ready,” you offer, “or if you just wanted to hang out and do anything to take your mind off of anything that would be fine too,”

She nods at that. You feel you’ve really reconnected with Kanari on something outside of Senshi related matters while also offering her a hand up from a kind of angry pit you’re familiar with. Your basking in this moment is broken, as is Kanari’s attention, by the nearby and hurried voice of your younger sister calling out for Kanari both in given name and a handful of familiar nicknames.

Eclipsed Moon Quest Episode 154
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Thanks Art.

>>2385561
Sounds like nothings on fire; in other words, all's good by our standards.

Thanks for running Art! Its always great when I see you started a new thread.

>>2385561
Thanks for the thread, Artemis.