rabuends | [006] Action/Voice/ReIntro - Forward Dated to December 5th

[Action; Around the village]

[Even in the sudden snap of cold weather, there is someone walking around the village not dressed to seasonal code. Not that she seems the least bit bothered. Her puella magi uniform works well enough in this situation. Right now she is simply walking, at a slow pace, around all parts of the village road. She stops very frequently and stares off into whatever catches her eyes. The trees, the buildings, the birds and so on. Maybe she might stare at you for a moment, if she happens to notice you. But she doesn't say anything and continues along, unless you happen to say something first.

Regardless she is simply walking and taking in the sights. ...Things seem familiar in an odd way, but she hasn't yet placed her finger on it. She should get her memory jogged soon enough with some help.

Eventually she'll make it to the plaza and immediately go into the item store. What will proceed to happen is an entire ransacking of the shop, as she looks for something very particular within. Something she has to find. Things will be thrown to the ground, or pushed aside to different areas as a result, but Homura will be oblivious to how much of a mess she is causing.

Fear not: she'll clean up once she finds what she is looking for and can be caught at either one of these times. As soon as she begins to clean up though, there will be something particular in her hair that was not there before: a red string ribbon, tied to the side of her hair.]

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[Later, after finding a good spot near a shady tree to take a break, she'll fiddle around with the journal and click on the feed.]

......

[She'll just stare into the camera and then shut the feed off. ...Only to turn it on again a minute later.]

This place...is Luceti, isn't it? My memory is foggy, but things are looking more familiar by the minute. I know I left, but it looks like I'm back again.

Can someone tell me...has anything changed, since I was last here? With the Malnosso, the village, anything really. I'm positive I've been gone a while, but I know time isn't exactly linear in this village compared to our wor-- universes. [She almost says 'world', but for her the difference of a 'world' and a 'universe' has taken a sharp turn since going back home.] Any help would be appreciated. ...Or if anyone just wants to talk for a little bit, about anything really, that's fine too.

[Action; Night.]

[If someone happens to pass by the barracks, or is in the general vicinity at the time, they may notice a young girl behind the building. A purple glow seems to flicker every now and then, with dummies being carefully pierced. The girl is of course Homura, holding a large bow and making hand motions that would be attributed to someone firing arrows. Yet there are no signs of arrows by her at all.

That is, until she begins to aim again and a purple glow of energy is suddenly being pulled back by the string with her fingers. Needless to say, something is very different about Homura's capabilities from before. Not even the shield that was around her arm previously is able to be seen.]

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Oh.

[Homura stiffens for a moment, not realizing someone had come up to watch. She anticipated someone may be curious, with the lights, but not enough to say anything or approach. Magic is commonplace after all. She'll turn around to face him and bow her head a little.]

Thank you. I'm sorry, I didn't expect someone to be watching. Have you been there long?

No, I just got here. I saw the lights, and I was curious. And I'm sorry if I'm intruding.

[He's pretty sincere about that. He doesn't think she meant to do this in secret, but he doesn't want to bother her if she wants to be alone.]

[She shakes her head.]

You aren't intruding. I was just practicing my aim and the lights do show up bright at night time.

[He approaches a bit to a more comfortable conversational distance. He's wearing his blue armor as usual, mostly because it still feels weird to go anywhere without it. Still, he glances over to the dummies who've sustained arrow injuries.]

Looks like you're a really good shot. Was that magic you were using?

[The blue armor is eye-catching, once he comes up closer and it's easier to see in the dark. It looks very sturdy as well. It makes it easy to nearly miss his question, but she bounces back and tries not to appear too curious.]

Yes, it was. Only simple magic. I create arrows with it and fire them off.

That's still cool, even if it's only simple. My world doesn't have magic, so when I see it here, it's always neat to see.

But that kind of magic seems pretty useful if you have to protect yourself.

[She nods.] Maybe it does and you simply don't know it? But, that much be too presumptuous of me to say.

I don't use my magic to protect myself, as much as I use it to protect others.

I guess it's possible! I've seen a lot of strange stuff back home, but haven't seen magic yet. But it's a big world, so I can't have seen everything yet.

Really? That's very admirable!

[He likes your style already.]

Sometimes it might just be where you least expect it. [She certainly didn't think magic existed, until finding out about Puella Magi.]

Is it really? I never thought of it that way. Wouldn't you want to help others if you could?

Well, yeah, it is. And I definitely would. [And does.]

But there are some people who wouldn't use their abilities to help people, or would ignore those who needed help. So... really, I've always thought that being willing to help others was admirable, even if it was only in small ways.

[She looks a bit surprised at first, but manages to keep it underwraps. The idea of someone not using their powers to help others has never quite occurred to her, if only because those with power were always helping back home.]

Then you must be an admirable person as well, for wanting to help others with whatever you can.

[He does a poor job hiding a blush. You went and made him embarrassed, Homura.]

I... I really don't do it that much.

[...He's being really modest. Almost stupidly so. He's really done a lot more than he would ever take credit for. And though his modesty isn't forced or false, Homura might be able to easily guess he's done a lot of good in his world.]

The fact that you did anything is still good. You're just as admirable as you claim me to be.

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