24th Reflection ~ Shadows.... [backdated to the 14th]
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Usagi-chan and I are both doing much better now. The sudden recovery makes me think that perhaps it wasn't a normal virus after all. Mah, I suppose it doesn't do much good to think about it by now though.
Have the shadows begun to attack thier owners? We remember that, don't we, Kaioh Michiru.
[Her voice gets sharper, suspicious] Who's there?
Da~re? [light chuckling] Ara, don't you recognize me? I'm always with you after all. I am us. Behind you, beneath you, beyond you, but always there.
... My shadow...
We are clever after all, ne? Ah... this curse brings back memories...
[amusement, with a hint of challenge] Oh? I had thought that puppet's bluff would have meant more chaos than this.
Honestly, strangling? I'm your shadow after all, I'm not a brute.
Perhaps we're not entirely proper either though. We reached a decision on that rather hastily, didn't we?
.....There wasn't time to sit and consider everything endlessly.
And so the truth came out, didn't it? We're a bit selfish, aren't we? it's the flaw in our perfect masterpeice.
You're a bit out of line, aren't you? If you are supposed to be me, you know that's not the way I see things.
Perhaps. We certainly don't try to correct that image others have of us though, do we? After all, everyone's mind might change about us if they knew you would have let them all die just to-
[her tone falls serious now] Don't talk like that. I had a feeling-
A feeling~? That is what we tell ourselves. And what we told her, yes? But we told the puppet the truth. A world without her really isn't worth living in, after all.
.... [sounding confident again] You're my shadow aren't you? Then you have a clear weakness [rumaging around, and a small click as she turns on a tall lamp]
Mm..... clever, but all light sources cast shadows, don't they? You should know that better than most, genius artist.
[silence, then chuckling] Mah~ I wonder what they would all say if they had known that you would have let them be attacked. Makoto-chan, Setsuna-san..... Usagi-
....
Then again, perhaps they would be used to it. After all, we were ready to let them die in our search for the talismans, weren't we? Everyone, everyone was a potential nessecary sacrifice.... except for her. You didn't sit by and watch then, did you?
Quiet!
We wonder.... perhaps, we were glad to have been shot first. Then there wasn't even an instant where she was gone from your world.
We left her first, didn't we, because we couldn't stand having her leave us. So we let her have the pleasure of that agony, didn't we?
...You're out of line again. I might well be selfish, but what you're suggesting now is beyond that.
Is it?
Mmm.... And after all that, we're here, and we expect her to welcome us back.... even after we met that girl. We still want to talk to that one again too, don't we? Mah... such selfishness.
.................. [footsteps, and more rumaging about. the footsetps return, and the sound of a violin being warmed up can be heard for a few moments before it launches into a troubled melody]
ahh....try your best to drown my voice then, powerless soldier of the deep sea, and I will do my best to match you. Let's find out who wins, ne?
Usagi-chan and I are both doing much better now. The sudden recovery makes me think that perhaps it wasn't a normal virus after all. Mah, I suppose it doesn't do much good to think about it by now though.
Have the shadows begun to attack thier owners? We remember that, don't we, Kaioh Michiru.
[Her voice gets sharper, suspicious] Who's there?
Da~re? [light chuckling] Ara, don't you recognize me? I'm always with you after all. I am us. Behind you, beneath you, beyond you, but always there.
... My shadow...
We are clever after all, ne? Ah... this curse brings back memories...
[amusement, with a hint of challenge] Oh? I had thought that puppet's bluff would have meant more chaos than this.
Honestly, strangling? I'm your shadow after all, I'm not a brute.
Perhaps we're not entirely proper either though. We reached a decision on that rather hastily, didn't we?
.....There wasn't time to sit and consider everything endlessly.
And so the truth came out, didn't it? We're a bit selfish, aren't we? it's the flaw in our perfect masterpeice.
You're a bit out of line, aren't you? If you are supposed to be me, you know that's not the way I see things.
Perhaps. We certainly don't try to correct that image others have of us though, do we? After all, everyone's mind might change about us if they knew you would have let them all die just to-
[her tone falls serious now] Don't talk like that. I had a feeling-
A feeling~? That is what we tell ourselves. And what we told her, yes? But we told the puppet the truth. A world without her really isn't worth living in, after all.
.... [sounding confident again] You're my shadow aren't you? Then you have a clear weakness [rumaging around, and a small click as she turns on a tall lamp]
Mm..... clever, but all light sources cast shadows, don't they? You should know that better than most, genius artist.
[silence, then chuckling] Mah~ I wonder what they would all say if they had known that you would have let them be attacked. Makoto-chan, Setsuna-san..... Usagi-
....
Then again, perhaps they would be used to it. After all, we were ready to let them die in our search for the talismans, weren't we? Everyone, everyone was a potential nessecary sacrifice.... except for her. You didn't sit by and watch then, did you?
Quiet!
We wonder.... perhaps, we were glad to have been shot first. Then there wasn't even an instant where she was gone from your world.
We left her first, didn't we, because we couldn't stand having her leave us. So we let her have the pleasure of that agony, didn't we?
...You're out of line again. I might well be selfish, but what you're suggesting now is beyond that.
Is it?
Mmm.... And after all that, we're here, and we expect her to welcome us back.... even after we met that girl. We still want to talk to that one again too, don't we? Mah... such selfishness.
.................. [footsteps, and more rumaging about. the footsetps return, and the sound of a violin being warmed up can be heard for a few moments before it launches into a troubled melody]
ahh....try your best to drown my voice then, powerless soldier of the deep sea, and I will do my best to match you. Let's find out who wins, ne?