[voice]

[blastiafreak]

This needs to...No, wait, that's no good...

[The shuffle of papers, the scribbling of a pencil in the background--someone's busy. But the distraction doesn't last long as Rita takes note of the date-]

Wait a minute--September?! How the hell is it--it's almost October again...

How could they bring back Estelle now- What if something-[ooc: Tags

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[voice]

[blessed_ninja]

Are you worried about something in October? Did something bad happened then?

[voice]

[blastiafreak]

Huh? Yeah, something like that...

So you weren't here last year?

[blessed_ninja]

No, I wasn't. I only arrived a couple of weeks ago. What happened then?

[ She sounds a bit distraught - if Rita's implications are correct then this is going to suck. ]

[blastiafreak]

So you're still pretty new...

[The other girl's right to be distraught, Rita thinks, if it'll be anything like last year. She's serious in return; nothing good would come of sugarcoating it.]

Basically, think of the worst curse you can imagine, and it was probably about a whole month of that.

[...So she doesn't realize she's exaggerating a bit, but it's still a pretty horrible memory.]

[blessed_ninja]

Do you mind providing me details of this curse? [ because seriously this level of vagueness wouldn't help Sakura at all. ]

I'm afraid I don't quite get what you're saying.

[blastiafreak]

[Right, she should be specific, shouldn't she?] ...Yeah, okay.

I guess the worst ones were...this nightmare curse that trapped people in dreams, and one where people were kidnapped underground and tortured. That kind of bad.

[blessed_ninja]

That sounds horrible! I'm sorry you had to go through that. What was your name again? [ Sakura's voice can't even begin to properly depict the horror she felt at the torture and nightmare. ] Were you safe last time?

[blastiafreak]

Uh, yeah...It was. [She's a little thrown off by the other girl's empathy, though it distracts her at least a little from remembering.

Oh--right. Name.] Rita Mordio. You?

[blessed_ninja]

My name is Sakura Haruno. It's nice to meet you. [ Her tone remains positive, but still empathetic. ] I'm really sorry you had to go through that. If you or any of your friends need someone to heal you or any sort of aid at all, don't hesitate to call me, okay? [ Just hearing about that and that other people were subjected to it makes her a bit unsettled. ]

[blastiafreak]

Yeah...Thanks. [More for the offer of help. Getting apologies from a stranger is still kind of weird to her.] So you're some kind of healer, Sakura?

[blessed_ninja]

[ Her voice seems to perk up in confidence. ]

Yep. I'm a really talented and skilled medic.

[blastiafreak]

That's one thing the City could use during some of those curses. You haven't really seen any bad ones yet, have you?

[blessed_ninja]

Being turned into a pig was pretty bad, but I haven't seen anything truly awful - that was caused by a curse at least.

[blastiafreak]

Well, yeah--you were turned into a pig?

[It's somewhere between ridiculous and funny. Of course she's seen curses turn people into animals, but never pigs.]

[blessed_ninja]

Yeah. Not my finest moment.

[ she is still mad over it |: that pig thing was not funny!! ]

[blastiafreak]

...You were lucky no butchers found you.

[Totally funny! As long as she doesn't think too much about how that could have actually come true...]