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[marsfireignite]

Ami went home.

[That's all you get. No helpful remark, no explanation, no quip. Just a simple public text message to the network.

Ami is one of the first senshi to fight alongside Usagi. She is one of Rei's very first friends.

And Ami was the first senshi to show up in Adstringendum alongside Rei.

Now there were three.]

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[buntails]

I'm sorry, Rei-chan.

[That's all.]

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[marsfireignite]

Me too.

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[buntails]

[There should be more, so much more, but what can she say when she feels like an enormous part of her just got torn away from right inside her? She knew this sort of thing happened, but this is the first time, this time.]

Do you want to come over?

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[marsfireignite]

[Rei almost says 'no', but that's not what Usagi wants to hear. Because it's not so much a 'Do you want to come over?' as a 'I need you to come over'.]

Sure.

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[buntails]

I'll be here.

[She clicks the PCD off after that, and flops back onto her bed, staring somewhat listlessly at the ceiling until Rei arrives.]