[009] ☿ Our bodies are just containers for our powers

[innerflow.livejournal.com]

[It's Tomoe Mami's face, but it's entirely Mizuno Ami's heavy heart that picks up the communicator. It's taken a long time to make herself look almost normal, to make herself look like she hasn't been crying and like she can handle this.

But the hope that's kept her going just disappeared along with Usagi and her other friends. She can't even know when she'll see them again, if she'll see them again, or if they're truly lost to the Darkness until their world can be restored - perhaps never. Three dear friends at once, so close after a fourth, is a terrible blow. Her voice is steady but far too quiet and thin.]

To everyone who knew them, Tsukino Usagi, Hino Rei, and Aino Minako have disappeared.

Naru-chan, we-

[But right there, without any warning, her voice simply stops. She slumps to the floor without any sign of distress of beforehand.]

(ooc: MADOKA SPOILER/explanation: With the body swap, Mami-in-Ami's-body came to pick up the soul gem... thus bringing it too far away for Mami's body (Ami). She will revive once Mami comes back, bringing it close again, and they figure it out.)

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[innerflow.livejournal.com]

[Well, the video was public so she supposes she can't really hide it.]

It's nothing. Just... I wonder why I was having trouble like that.

[musketmagi.livejournal.com]

( she looks down, focusing on the soul gem in her hands ) I've never... experienced a problem like that before. ( but there's a cold chill running down her spine for some reason... )

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[share-a-parfait.livejournal.com]

[And this response of Ami's, calm and collected though it may be, confuses Naru further]

You're.. uh.. an Mizuno Ami .. too? I'm Osaka Naru.

[innerflow.livejournal.com]

I see. Then it's something we'll have to investigate further in order to understand it.

[Video]

[innerflow.livejournal.com]

Naru-chan? It really is you? [Well that's certainly interesting... Some people were left unaffected.]

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[violontides.livejournal.com]

... You mean to say that it was no common fainting spell. Is that it?

[musketmagi.livejournal.com]

What... did it feel like?

[innerflow.livejournal.com]

[She supposes a true answer is necessary if they're going to make progress.]

Like... nothing. I don't remember fainting at all. And then suddenly... I was conscious.

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[innerflow.livejournal.com]

I don't know... I haven't fainted before, except... [Except back at home, in some of their battles - and when Fisheye had tried to manipulate her.]

So I don't really know.

[musketmagi.livejournal.com]

( she's not too fond of the idea of experimentation while someone else is in her body suffering the consequences... but whatever's going on here is definitely a matter that needs to be settled... ) Mizuno-san... ( she holds out her hands, indicating the egg-shaped jewel she carries -- ) take this.

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[violontides.livejournal.com]

... Is this the first time it's happened? Since you've been in this body?

[innerflow.livejournal.com]

Eh? But Tomoe-san, this is very important to you. I can't keep it from you!

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[innerflow.livejournal.com]

Yes... that's why at first, I thought it must have just been the shock of whatever spell changed us. But it seems.. that might not be the case, if others are reacting to it well.

[musketmagi.livejournal.com]

You're right, but... Since I made the contract, I've never been separated from the Soul Gem...

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[violontides.livejournal.com]

( she frowns ) It sounds as though... there may be some troubles with that body, Ami-chan. The girl it belongs to... she isn't ill?

[innerflow.livejournal.com]

[Too quickly for comfort, her mind flies across the next steps.]

Then... could it be you think this reaction relates to the soul gem?

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[innerflow.livejournal.com]

Not that I'm aware of. [And she couldn't disclose it anyway; patient confidentiality.] Perhaps it's just... a difference between a senshi body and another body.

[musketmagi.livejournal.com]

( she doesn't necessairily like it, but... ) Unfortunately there is only one way to find out.

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[violontides.livejournal.com]

( she... is not so ready to just accept it at that. can you escape this scrutinizing gaze? ) And yet I have not seen anyone else with a similar reaction. Have you, Ami-chan?

[innerflow.livejournal.com]

This is going to sound silly... It's just a fainting spell... but...


I don't know if I can go through it again. It feels so strange... Unsettling, somehow.

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[innerflow.livejournal.com]

No; that's why it concerns me... enough to investigate. [She can't admit, to Michiru of all people who she looks up so much, that the real word for it is fear.]

[musketmagi.livejournal.com]

( she pauses for a moment... and then smiles sadly... taking the other girls hand, she places the soul gem inside, and closes her fingers around it gently ) That's why... we need to ensure that it won't happen again. I'm sorry, Ami-chan... ( even though she's already said it... ) That you have to be trapped in the body of a puella magi such as mine...

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[violontides.livejournal.com]

... What is it that you'll do? ( yes, she's allowed to worry... even if she sounds a little cold in doing so... )

[innerflow.livejournal.com]

Please don't apologize. Talking in circles won't find a solution; and besides, the one to blame is whatever is causing these switches. That isn't your fault. And we don't know if it's any fault like that, either.

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[innerflow.livejournal.com]

I don't know enough to have a plan of action yet. I need to find out a cause first.