ApparitionsStalkTheNight 1

[21:21]	<GMOwen>	Time passes… It means so little to those that refuse to age. The family moves from 1870 to 1883, and from Europe to America. Rejecting the boring feel of the Eastern Seaboard, the ladies move inland and settle in Chicago, setting themselves up in a nice house away from the main drag of the Windy City. It wouldn’t do to attract too much attention, after all…
[21:21]	<GMOwen>	It is a brisk November evening, the 7th to be precise, though snow is still quite a ways off. The ladies take solace in dim lights and a crackling fire for the time being…
[21:26]	* Phrine	sits cross-legged in a giant armchair, watching the fireplace.
[21:28]	* Joule	sits at a desk with a few papers, drawing some graphs and writing down something that looks extremely complex with the aid of a machine that looks like an arithmometer.
[21:28]	<Phrine>	"Is it snowing yet?"
[21:30]	<Leticia>	Not yet.
[21:30]	* Phrine	wonders if it's because she's watching the fire. Maybe if she moves away the snow will stop melting.
[21:31]	<Joule>	Can't be long, but it may be a few days.
[21:32]	* Phrine	wanders over to Joule's desk.
[21:32]	<Phrine>	"Wha'chya inventin'~?"
[21:37]	* Phrine	doesn't even bother trying to understand those scribbles.
[21:38]	<Joule>	Good eye. I'm making some calculations for some electromagnetic coils. There are many potential applications, but I can't design a working one without planning this out first.
[21:39]	* Joule	thinks and punches a few more numbers into the machine; it whirs and displays a few more. She writes them down and marks a few points on one of the graphs.
[21:39]	<Phrine>	"...Does that make you sparkly better?"
[21:40]	* Phrine	wiggles her fingers at Joule, miming what might be "sparkly sparkly".
[21:40]	<Joule>	Well, since you bring up the matter... it could, yes. Although there are many more things that they could do...
[21:41]	* Joule	thinks about it some, drumming her fingers on the desk.
[21:42]	* Leticia	flips through the bible she keeps around.
[21:43]	<Joule>	Heh heh heh... So many things... Ah! Would you mind helping me test them when I build working ones? I think if I built them correctly they could be used to influence the direction of electric fields and signals...
[21:44]	* Phrine	's head tilts to the side more and more as Joule keeps talking.
[21:45]	* Phrine	's head now rests on her left shoulder entirely.
[21:45]	<Joule>	Oh, just the thought of it threatens to drive me mad. A device that would allow me to manipulate a person's nervous system without even touching them! So many places to go from there, too...
[21:46]	* Phrine	just stares at Joule with a blissful empty smile on her face. She's no longer listening, but it's kind of hard to tell considering she's always like this.
[21:48]	<Joule>	Of course, it could also be used to experimentally decode the signalling used to control motor functions. Or perhaps extend the range for my ability to enter a mind, or override thoughts... although shorting the nerves would likely be much easier.
[21:49]	* Joule	continues to speak, going faster and faster while drumming her fingers more and more strongly on the tabletop.
[21:49]	* Phrine	continues to tilt her head, then her body. Eventually she just falls over onto the floor.
[21:50]	* Leticia	puts her book down and gets up, helping right Phrine.
[21:52]	<Phrine>	"Whoo~ Thanks Letty~"
[21:53]	<Phrine>	"Did I miss anything...?"
[21:53]	* Joule	is now quiet but working furiously, her eyes sparkling a little more strongly.
[21:55]	<Leticia>	Nothing either of us would understand.
[21:56]	* Phrine	nods.
[21:57]	<Phrine>	"Well that means I double-can't. Oh well... Sorry I fell over on you, Jewel~"
[21:57]	<Joule>	Hm? Oh, no, no matter. Nothing I haven't seen before.
[21:59]	* Phrine	nods and chews on her finger. Utterly pointless in the long run, but blood tastes like blood~
[22:01]	<Phrine>	"Nnrrmm... I'm thirsty."
[22:02]	<Leticia>	Should we hunt, then?
[22:02]	* Phrine	pouts.
[22:02]	<Phrine>	"Heeey, stooop calling it hunting~!"
[22:03]	<Leticia>	Why?
[22:03]	<Phrine>	"..."
[22:04]	* Phrine	has no legitimate response planned. Obviously.
[22:04]	<Phrine>	"...Cause~"
[22:04]	<Joule>	Is there a better word for it, at least?
[22:05]	<Leticia>	I CALL IT WHAT IT IS.
[22:05]	* Phrine	smiles, still sucking on her finger.
[22:05]	<Phrine>	"Shopping~!"
[22:05]	<Leticia>	This is no different from a hunter catching a rabbit or two for a meal.
[22:05]	* Phrine	re-clarifies.
[22:05]	<Phrine>	"Grocery shopping!"
[22:07]	<Leticia>	Call it what you wish, though. The result is the same.
[22:07]	<Joule>	A rose by any other name.
[22:08]	<Phrine>	"Roses are blood-colored~ Maybe we're gardening~..."
[22:08]	<Joule>	Do let me know if you go; I believe that I could use some 'harvesting' myself.
[22:10]	* Phrine	skips away to get her bulky topcoat; a necessity considering she wanders around in tiny shorts and silly revealing tops most days.
[22:14]	* Phrine	checks the pockets for her revolver. Never leave the house without it; bad men might try bad things!
[22:16]	* Leticia	doesn't mind cold, but fetches a jacket anyway.
[22:16]	* Phrine	pulls out her Colt Peacemaker and spins the chamber around a few times. It makes a fun clicky sound~!
[22:17]	* Joule	finishes up a few calculations and stands up, adjusting her bowtie and glasses.
[22:21]	<Phrine>	"I'm not THAT thirsty, by the way; I don't mind sharing tonight~"
[22:21]	* Phrine	pockets her revolver again.
[22:26]	<Leticia>	We'll just need one or two, then.
[22:27]	* Phrine	nods and opens the door. A nippy wind blows.
[22:29]	* Joule	waits for the other two to go through first.
[22:29]	* Leticia	goes in front.
[22:30]	* Phrine	follows the leader. Which is everyone; she's the youngest, after all!
[22:31]	<GMOwen>	The lovely ladies venture out into the dark evening, opting to travel by foot tonight; the sky is too clear to risk flight. Chicago bustles with activity as usual for such a big city. It’s a little early yet to pick off a few victims unnoticed, though, so they stroll around downtown first, admiring the shops.
[22:33]	* Joule	notices a few newspapers and publications, but keeps an eye out for something actually interesting to her.
[22:35]	* Leticia	admires the city itself. Even after all this time, these things still amaze her, when compares them to the cities of her youth.
[22:39]	* Phrine	focuses on the eye-catching shop displays. Pretty clothes and pastries, ooo...
[22:43]	<Phrine>	"Uuu, that cake looks good... But I didn't bring my money with me."
[22:44]	* Joule	hands over a few coins for a copy of the Scientific American, burying herself in its pages a few seconds later.
[22:44]	* Phrine	stares at delicious cake through the glass.
[22:44]	<Leticia>	Phrine, you don't need to eat cake anymore.
[22:44]	* Phrine	turns to Letty and is all like |:\
[22:45]	<Phrine>	"I'm not DUMB, Letty. I'm just weird."
[22:46]	<Joule>	I suppose the latter portion of the two is verifiably correct.
[22:47]	* Phrine	stares back at the cake.
[22:47]	<Phrine>	"But it looks soooo gooood..."
[22:47]	<Leticia>	I never said you were.
[22:47]	<Leticia>	I'm just saying you don't need that cake.
[22:56]	<Phrine>	"But I think I WANT cake~!"
[22:57]	<Joule>	What are you going to do about it? Are you carrying enough? If you're not, I can't help.
[22:59]	<Phrine>	"It's... just a cake..."
[22:59]	<Phrine>	"It's small, see?"
[23:00]	* Joule	shrugs.
[23:00]	<Joule>	The tag is right there. I'm not carrying enough either.
[23:03]	* Phrine	pouts. Her cake...
[23:04]	<Leticia>	...Do you really want it?
[23:07]	* Kalinka	has been strolling around downtown for about an hour or so, now. She's bundled up warmly, but the cold that penetrates doesn't bother a Daughter of Russia such as herself~. Today is her 100th birthday, and although she's a little unhappy that she isn't spending it in Moscow, she has decided that one could certainly do worse than America. It's a cute little country.
[23:07]	* Kalinka	has been making the rounds of her favorite places to shop-- although the term is mostly a euphemism in her mind; spending one's own money to actually buy things is generally something that /lesser/ people engage in.
[23:09]	* Kalinka	...And yet, oddly, she hasn't done more than give each elaborate storefront display a brief once-over. No, something else is occupying her mind, and she isn't sure what. All she knows for certain is that her PATRON has given her the rest of the month off, guaranteed. She could afford to take it easy, and that suited her wonderfully.
[23:11]	* Kalinka	woke up this morning with a strange sense of excitement and anticipation. She had felt this way around Christmastime, on the day she had met her PATRON. It was a kind of giddiness and expectation. Something good was going to happen, and it seemed right that it should happen on such an auspicious day.
[23:14]	* Phrine	looks longingly at the cake with sad eyes.
[23:15]	<Phrine>	"I... I guess I don't, NEED, it... Since we, don't have the money..."
[23:16]	* Phrine	stuffs her hands into her pockets and walks away from the bakery, sniffling.
[23:17]	* Joule	moves along with the rest of the group, zipping through the magazine.
[23:17]	* Kalinka	however hasn't been able to figure out what it is. Nothing seems to be springing out at her with any obviousness. She headed downtown to go looking for a birthday present an hour ago, but nothing seems to be That Special Thing.
[23:17]	* Kalinka	knows that it's somewhere here, though...
[23:17]	* Kalinka	Somewhere...
[23:17]	* Kalinka	...pink.
[23:17]	* Kalinka	blinks.
[23:17]	<Leticia>	Well, we could see what we find in dinner's wallet.
[23:18]	<Kalinka>	...Eh?
[23:18]	* Phrine	's mouth goes :\
[23:18]	<Phrine>	"Eehhh, Letty, you know that's riskystuff, taking people with money. They might... you know... be missed."
[23:19]	* Kalinka	stops in the middle of the sidewalk, jolted back out of her half-attentive scanning of wares in windows. Something important just happened. And it was pink.
[23:19]	* Kalinka	looks around, frowning.
[23:19]	* Phrine	hangs her head lower now, the allure of window-shopping lost since they can't actually buy anything.
[23:20]	<Joule>	We would only need someone with enough money for what we want; it needn't be truly a lot.
[23:21]	<Phrine>	"Pretty cakes are always expensive..."
[23:21]	<Phrine>	"Tasty cakes aren't. But, the pretty ones... yeah."
[23:22]	<Leticia>	Well, so what if they're missed?
[23:22]	* Kalinka	turns around, tracing her steps. Where did she see it...? There's nothing especially /pink/ in the windows of the last three stores. One's a bootmaker, one's a tailor, and the other's a bookstore.
[23:22]	<Leticia>	Even if someone finds us, they can be silenced.
[23:22]	* Kalinka	looks around, her frown deppening.
[23:22]	* Kalinka	...and, unaware of it herself, smiling.
[23:22]	* Phrine	holds up her finger, playing connect the dots in the air.
[23:23]	<Phrine>	"But, like... you kill that one, then you gotta kill the next one and the next one..."
[23:23]	* Phrine	keeps connecting the dots, using both hands. She has no idea what the conclusion is supposed to be.
[23:23]	<Joule>	Perhaps we could make it look like an accident?
[23:24]	<Kalinka>	"...White. There was something white, too."
[23:24]	* Phrine	rubs her mouth, thinking. But she's no good at thinking.
[23:25]	<Phrine>	"You'd haffa do that, though. All I do is look pretty an' have pink hair~"
[23:26]	<Phrine>	"An' everything I do is an accident."
[23:26]	* Joule	thinks about it.
[23:26]	<Leticia>	The other option is you can get a job, Phrine.
[23:27]	* Kalinka	scans the other side of the street... There, a bakery with several cakes on display in the window! There's nothing pink around it that she can see, but it's a start.
[23:28]	<Phrine>	"Like a... job-job? Or, just a job?"
[23:28]	<Joule>	What can you do?
[23:28]	* Kalinka	walks across the street, not even really watching for traffic. Carts have a way of always going around her.
[23:28]	* Phrine	sees a gun store! Oh joy! She's always looking for sisters for her Colt!
[23:29]	<Phrine>	"I can-GUNS!"
[23:29]	* Phrine	whisks herself away and goes into the store.
[23:30]	* Kalinka	gets to the bakery, and looks at it, expectantly. ...Nothing very PINK leaps out at --wait, dammit, there it is again!
[23:30]	<Leticia>	Phrine, wai-
[23:30]	* Leticia	sighs.
[23:31]	<Leticia>	When I was young, children listened.
[23:31]	<Joule>	Didn't older women say that when you were young also?
[23:31]	<Leticia>	Yes, they did.
[23:31]	* Kalinka	looks sharply to her left, further down the street. It disappeared quickly, but she knows she saw it.
[23:31]	* Phrine	slips up the hood on her coat. A young lady in a gun shop is weird enough. Pink hair only makes things worse.
[23:32]	<GMOwen>	[The store owner is currently busy discussing a rifle with another customer and doesn't notice Phrine slip in.]
[23:32]	* Kalinka	stalks down the street, taking time now to examine everything she passes. Most of the people here dress in darker or duller shades.
[23:34]	<Joule>	...Should we keep an eye on her?
[23:35]	<Leticia>	Yes.
[23:35]	* Leticia	follows the bob of pink hair.
[23:35]	* Phrine	has immediately forgotten that she was sad about not having money.
[23:37]	* Phrine	inspects a line of pearl-handled Derringers inside a glass case. Silly guns; how can they shoot when they're so small?
[23:39]	* Joule	allows Leticia to take care of it, staying outside. She's nowhere near as good at it...
[23:41]	* Leticia	enters the store.
[23:43]	<GMOwen>	[The owner notices the lovely lady enter his shop. He's professional about it, but still doesn't generally get women in here. At least, not ones that aren't escorted by men.]
[23:43]	<GMOwen>	Mr. Phillips the Owner: "Good evening, ma'am. May I help you?"
[23:46]	* Kalinka	starts looking carefully at every person walking by, and scanning over customers and shopkeepers alike in each store she passes.
[23:46]	<Leticia>	Oh, I'm just with my daughter.
[23:47]	* Leticia	adopts the slightly alluring tone she's learned works well in her dealings with men.
[23:47]	<GMOwen>	Mr. Phillips: "Oh? I, don't think I've seen another woman enter here lately, ma'am."
[23:48]	<GMOwen>	[The store is large enough to have a few aisles, one of which Phrine is behind. The owner can't see her from the counter.]
[23:49]	* Joule	walks over in front of the shops to the one the other two entered so as to meet them when they exit.
[23:49]	<Leticia>	She should be somewhere here.
[23:50]	* Leticia	wanders.
[23:50]	<GMOwen>	Mr. Phillips: "Well, feel free to look around, ma'am. If you have any, uhh, questions, I'll be right here."
[23:51]	<Leticia>	Alright~
[23:52]	<GMOwen>	[Mr. Phillips wonders what this woman is up to, but it's of little consequence. You get strange people in gun stores.]
[23:57]	* Joule	suddenly notices she forgot to put on a coat when she left. All she needs to do is draw more power from the electrosphere, but people are giving her strange glances.
[00:01]	* Leticia	finds Phrine.
[00:01]	<Leticia>	There you are.
[00:04]	<Phrine>	"Ehh? Oh, hi. I'm window shopping again~"
[00:04]	<Leticia>	It's only window shopping if you're outside the window, dear.
[00:04]	* Phrine	points to the glass case.
[00:04]	<Phrine>	"But, uhhmm... the glass, it's... LIKE a window, right~?"
[00:05]	<Leticia>	It's fine, as long as you don't break anything.
[00:07]	* Kalinka	wanders by a gun shop, and goes to pass it; she's not really concerned with ... Then screeches to a sudden stop as she sees the woman standing just outside.
[00:09]	* Phrine	rolls her eyes.
[00:09]	* Joule	is reading intently, but seems to perk up like she notices something. Her eyes stop moving back and forth, although she doesn't change positions.
[00:09]	<Phrine>	"My eyes don't break things, Letty. Jus' my fingers~"
[00:10]	* Phrine	tap-tap-taps on the glass with her fingernails.
[00:10]	<Leticia>	Yes, of course.
[00:15]	* Kalinka	looks at the woman reading with something like awe. She's a spirit of some kind, probably, but no scrap of memory bound to a place, and no simple nature-being.
[00:16]	* Kalinka	has no idea what in hell she is, and she'd love to talk to her... but something calls her into the store. What could be bigger than this, though?
[00:17]	* Kalinka	just gives her a friendly nod, and goes into the store, feeling slightly dazed.
[00:17]	* Phrine	browses. Where do they keep the Colts?
[00:17]	* Joule	looks at the girl as she goes inside. Something very strange about her...
[00:17]	* Phrine	considers asking the shopkeep where he keeps the Peacemakers.
[00:21]	* Kalinka	starts as she hears that voice. Something is familiar about it...
[00:22]	* Kalinka	then sees the two women at the shelf, and forgets to breathe for several seconds.
[00:28]	* Kalinka	sees the bloodshed just HANGING off of them. Mostly the other one. Definitely the older one. Neither of then are human, or at least... no, they're not human anymore. They don't have the smell of reanimated corpses, and lycanthropes wouldn't be this deep in the city. Changelings haven't left the Continent, and they don't have the piss-annoying aural glow of fae.
[00:29]	* Kalinka	...but the smaller one, she's almost ...
[00:29]	* Kalinka	taps her on the shoulder.
[00:29]	<Kalinka>	Excuse me?
[00:31]	* Leticia	looks to see the newcomer.
[00:31]	* Phrine	turns her head a little to look at this tapping tapper. Her hood covers most of her hair, but a messy patch of it is slid down over one eye, as it usually is when she's not caring.
[00:32]	<Phrine>	"Ooh, umm... excuse ME?"
[00:33]	* Phrine	did not used to have orange eyes. But they are defiantly orange.
[00:35]	* Kalinka	is speechless.
=Break in between sittings; finishing up this scene at a later date=
[22:52]	<Kalinka>	...Phrine?
[22:53]	* Phrine	just sort of stares at her and squints her visible eye. What... is this?
[22:53]	<Phrine>	"Uuummmm..."
[22:55]	<Kalinka>	It is Magda! Is this... are you Phrine?
[22:55]	* Kalinka	is starting to feel more and more idiotic.
[22:55]	* Phrine	has absolutely no immediate recollection of this young girl. She looks back to Leticia.
[22:56]	<Phrine>	"Umm, Letty... do, we, know her?"
[22:56]	* Leticia	looks between Phrine and the girl.
[22:56]	<Leticia>	I don't.
[22:56]	* Leticia	locks eyes with Kalinka.
[22:56]	<Leticia>	Do you... know Phrine, miss?
[22:57]	* Phrine	twirls a string of her hair and starts sucking on it absentmindedly. SHOULD she know this person? She looks very pretty...
[22:58]	* Kalinka	is getting a little desperate, now, and grips Phrine's arm.
[22:59]	<Phrine>	"Whuh-wha!"
[22:59]	<Kalinka>	Was in Nottingham, at orphanage of St. Thomas... You must remember!
[23:00]	<Kalinka>	...Will admit, was many, many years ago, but is not important.
[23:00]	* Phrine	is getting a little nervous. She's... not supposed to tell strangers about herself! She might expose her family!
[23:00]	<Phrine>	"I, umm, I, don't..."
[23:01]	* Phrine	really doesn't know where to go with this.
[23:01]	<GMOwen>	Mr Phillips: "Excuse me, is there some kind of trouble back there?"
[23:03]	* Kalinka	finally notices the other people in the room. Or at least, notices one, and re-acknowledges the other.
[23:03]	<Leticia>	No, no trouble at all.
[23:03]	<Leticia>	Yet.
[23:03]	<Kalinka>	~={...There is no trouble. Do not bother us.}=~
[23:06]	<GMOwen>	Mr. Phillips: "I... see. Forgive my intrusion, miss..."
[23:07]	<GMOwen>	[The man goes back to polishing the new import rifles, now oblivious to the girls' concerns.]
[23:08]	* Phrine	bites her lip. What to do? It'd be so easy to just bite her and have done, if it wasn't for the man at the counter...
[23:11]	<Phrine>	"I... don't, think I know you, little girl."
[23:11]	<Kalinka>	..."Little girl"?
[23:11]	* Kalinka	looks almost hurt.
[23:12]	<Kalinka>	Am far older than you, little Phrine.
[23:15]	* Phrine	doesn't like the sound of this...
[23:16]	<Phrine>	"You, uhh, you're, not making me very, comfortable, miss-girl."
[23:16]	* Phrine	scooches back a half-step.
[23:17]	* Kalinka	really does look hurt, now.
[23:17]	<Kalinka>	...You do not remember, then...?
[23:18]	* Leticia	shifts herself slightly in front of Phrine.
[23:19]	* Kalinka	sighs, shoulders slumping.
[23:22]	* Phrine	looks sideways at the owner of the store, then at the window. Maybe... maybe she could get away with it if she was REALLY careful...
[23:23]	<Leticia>	So... What exactly is your relation to Phrine?
[23:26]	* Phrine	inches around to a different shelf, "admiring" the holsters.
[23:35]	* Kalinka	looks at the other lady, trying to get a feel for her species. She's old, that's for damn sure.
[23:35]	<Kalinka>	...Phrine was first friend of mine after working began. Met in England. Played with her for month, then needed move on.
[23:35]	* Phrine	stops moving.
[23:35]	* Phrine	stares hard at this pretty girl.
[23:36]	<Kalinka>	...Would like to stayed for longer.
[23:36]	* Kalinka	sounds rather unhappy about the whole thing.
[23:36]	* Phrine	inches closer to the girl. Something... she, thinks she remembers... something.
[23:37]	<Leticia>	...How long ago?
[23:40]	* Phrine	strains herself to remember. It's so hard to remember "the before". Like it didn't even matter. But still...
[23:41]	* Phrine	brushes the hair out of her eyes to get a better look. HAS she seen her before? Shiny black hair, nice clothes, talks funny...
[23:45]	* Kalinka	thinks.
[23:46]	<Kalinka>	Sixty-seven years. Was 1816.
[23:50]	* Leticia	nods. So the girl isn't normal.
[23:50]	* Leticia	mentally prepares for a possible fight.
[23:51]	* Phrine	continues to rack her brain. She is relatively close to the girl now.
[23:51]	<Phrine>	"Wait... WHO are you again...?"
[23:56]	<Kalinka>	Magda Ilyana.
[23:56]	* Kalinka	turns to look at Phrine, a tiny bit hopeful.
[23:57]	<Phrine>	"God bless you~"
[00:00]	* Kalinka	jerks suddenly, and almost cracks a smile, remembering the reaction from before...
[00:00]	<Kalinka>	Am not sneezing. Was not before.
[00:02]	<Phrine>	"Wait..."
[00:02]	* Phrine	narrows her eyes. Those silly names...
[00:04]	<Phrine>	"You... name..."
[00:04]	<Phrine>	"God, bless..."
[00:07]	* Kalinka	nods, slowly.
[00:07]	<Kalinka>	...Do you remember cart ride on first day...?
[00:09]	* Leticia	's hand twitches
[00:09]	* Phrine	's subconscious manages to somehow put the pieces together. She suddenly leaps forwards and hugs Kalina before she even realizes she is doing so.
[00:10]	<Phrine>	"Best friend~!"
[00:11]	* Kalinka	squeaks in surprise, and stumbles back a few steps before bursting into joyful tears and hugging her back.
[00:12]	<Leticia>	...
[00:12]	* Leticia	drops her guard.
[00:14]	* Phrine	has to lean down to rub her cheek next to Kalinka's due to their height difference, but she could care less~
[00:16]	* Kalinka	's likewise too happy to care.
[00:16]	<Kalinka>	After so long...
[00:18]	<Phrine>	"How'd you find me?!"
[00:20]	* Kalinka	sniffs, and wipes her eyes before looking up at Phrine.
[00:20]	<Kalinka>	...Was accident.
[00:20]	* Kalinka	thinks, and then adds:
[00:20]	<Kalinka>	Maybe fate.
[00:20]	* Phrine	thinks too, and adds.
[00:20]	<Phrine>	"...Luck~"
[00:21]	* Phrine	has always relied on her luck, as if it's a tangible thing almost.
[00:24]	* Kalinka	snuggles her a little closer.
[00:24]	<Kalinka>	You are best birthday present ever.
[00:26]	* Kalinka	blushes a little, and feels the tears coming again. She's been on the earth for a century, but her body and mind are only 15. It's okay to get emotional on this occasion.
[00:27]	<Phrine>	"It's... your, birthday?"
[00:31]	* Kalinka	nods.
[00:32]	* Phrine	sniffles and smiles.
[00:32]	<Phrine>	"H-Happy... happy, then."
[00:33]	* Kalinka	grins, and hugs her again.
[00:33]	<Kalinka>	Is very happy.
[00:33]	* Leticia	smiles, the scene warming her dead, necrotic heart.
[00:35]	<Phrine>	"S-So, uhh, how... you're, not dead. That means you're, like me, right~?"
[00:38]	* Kalinka	's smile slips just a little. Not out of fear or suppressed rejection, but out of "okay, how bad is this going to be?"-ness.
[00:38]	<Kalinka>	What is "like you"?
[00:38]	* Kalinka	seems cautious, but otherwise calm.
[00:39]	<Phrine>	"Well, I'm like... ohh, wait..."
[00:39]	* Phrine	realizes that this is a public place. Durr.
[00:39]	<Phrine>	"It's... a secret~ Not here~"
[00:41]	<Leticia>	...Should we go home? We were going to eat first.
[00:42]	<Leticia>	Though, perhaps a visual example would be quickest for your friend.
[00:42]	<Phrine>	"Nono, eats can be later! It's her birfday, Letty!"
[00:42]	* Phrine	stands back up and folds her hands up to her chin.
[00:43]	<Phrine>	"That means we CAN have cake after all!"
[00:43]	* Phrine	's eyes are shining with glee.
[00:43]	* Leticia	sighs.
[00:44]	<Leticia>	Fine, a cake. But nothing too expensive, we don't have much.
[00:46]	* Kalinka	perks up.
[00:46]	<Kalinka>	Ah. Money is not problem.
[00:46]	* Phrine	perks up now.
[00:47]	<Phrine>	"Ohh~? Oohh~?!"
[00:47]	* Kalinka	grins once again, maybe a little unsettlingly.
[00:47]	<Leticia>	Oh, no, we couldn't ask you to...
[00:47]	* Kalinka	seems confused for a moment.
[00:47]	<Kalinka>	...Ask me to...?
[00:48]	* Kalinka	realizes what she meant, and giggles.
[00:48]	* Phrine	takes the initiative!
[00:48]	<Phrine>	"Best friend~? Do you want to buy a pretty cake so we can eat it an' be best friends again~?"
[00:48]	<Kalinka>	Oh! Are referring to paying money, yes? Ahaha~ I do not do such things unless is dire emergency.
[00:49]	* Kalinka	grabs Phrine's hand, and nods.
[00:50]	<Kalinka>	Absolute yes! But have been friends since long ago, so why need to starting again?
[00:51]	<Leticia>	Then...
[00:51]	* Leticia	isn't connecting something here.
[00:51]	<Phrine>	"...'Cause, I forgot~..."
[00:52]	* Phrine	smiles sheepishly.
[00:54]	* Kalinka	waves a finger and tut-tuts.
[00:55]	<Kalinka>	Is not important! Have been comrades whole time. Was merely long time before meeting again.
[00:56]	<Phrine>	"Oookaaay~"
[01:00]	<GMOwen>	[Friends reunited after so long, only to find that in seventy-six years they haven't changed a bit.  What joy it is, when dark magic brings a smile to a little girl's face...]