First Bloom - 「Awakening」

[fragrantsadism]

[Dark shadows register over the monitor as video is broadcast, overlaying a background of cloud-covered sky. The dark stain constricts, engulfing all but a corner of the visible display.]

Nnnn...gh.

[Movement of the communicator is indicated perhaps more by the sound of dirt and grit shuffling below than the blurred and indistinguishable shifting of

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[cozmic_travel]

Well now... Yuuka Kazami.

[witchoftheweek]

What?

[cozmic_travel]

I'm sure you're familiar with the Flower Youkai of Mugenkan, Miss Patchouli. Her reputation is quite tremendous, after all.

[witchoftheweek]

I am aware of the Flower Master of Four Seasons.

...How did you know it was her though?

[fragrantsadism]

[Other voices filtered in from...somewhere. Nearby, yet somehow distant. And unfamiliar. Yet they spoke of her, knew of her.]

It seems my reputation precedes me. Not surprising, really.

[She stepped towards the root of the voices, all but oblivious of their source]

Why don't you come out, like good little play things?

[cozmic_travel]

The device you had intended to feed upon, dear, is actually a communicator.

[fragrantsadism]

You mean, some outer-world gadget?

[She pauses]

That's where your voice is coming from, then? Who are you?

[cozmic_travel]

None other than Dr. Eirin Yagokoro. At your service, dear.

[fragrantsadism]

I have heard of you. It is nice being able to put a voice to the name.

Surely I did not sleep so long for this field to decay. May I ask, is this not Gensokyo?

[cozmic_travel]

Not at all. You're in a world called "Fortuna". This city is called "Discedo".

[fragrantsadism]

[She looks around once more]

This world does not look so ... fortunate.

[cozmic_travel]

It certainly is not. And neither are you. You will find any attempt to produce flora through the use of your powers has been, at this time, sealed.

1/? FFFF

[fragrantsadism]

[Within...NoflowersNoPowersNoFlowersNoPowersNoFlowersNoPowers?!..waitaminute.]

2/? w8nvm

[fragrantsadism]

[Outwardly, the embodiment of cool, collected.]

3/? oic...

[fragrantsadism]

... Then might I assume the same is true for anyone...else that may be here?

[Obvious implication should be obvious]

4/4 ...fff

[fragrantsadism]

How did I even come to be here? And yourself? Certainly not by choice...
...It wasn't her, was it? I'll tear out her spine.

[...I assume she has one...]