Third Sea Wind // Video

[ocean_souled]

[As the video comes on, Michiru is sitting on the edge of one of the hot springs pools, not looking at the PCD. She dips a ladle in the pool, pours the water over her left hand, and then her right. She takes a sip of water and turns away to spit it out. She dips the ladle in the water one last time before tilting it backward to let the water

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[buntails]

Michiru-san? I don't really understand...

[But it worries her. She does, of course, know that the people are acting strangely - almost like the people under the Dead Moon influence.]

[ocean_souled]

[She smiles]

I am feeling a bit spiritual at the moment, Usagi-chan. There is great darkness moving across the city at the moment.

[A long pause]

Be safe. Without you...

[buntails]

Michiru-san... [She smiles a small, quiet smile; she's touched, Michiru, by that feeling even if she doesn't want to be the focus and the center.

Suddenly she really wants to see Michiru.]

Can I come out and sit with you?

[ocean_souled]

I think I would like that.

[buntails]

[She's so eager that she's out there in record time, though as soon as she spots Michiru, Usagi schools herself to what she hopes is a graceful, mature gait. (If the exaggerated movements could be called graceful still...)]

It's nice out here this time of year.

[ocean_souled]

[The sight of Usagi trying so hard to be graceful makes her laugh.]

Indeed it is.

[She offers the ladle to Usagi]

I realize this isn't a true shrine, but I've found the rituals calming sometimes.

[buntails]

It feels sort of like staying over at Rei-chan's all the time, living here, doesn't it?

[Usagi takes the ladle.]

[ocean_souled]

Mmm.

[She trails her fingers in the water, silent for a long moment. The desire for purity and peace is why she's out here instead of at the Temple. The irony does not escape her]

Are things always so... chaotic here?

[buntails]

Sometimes. But sometimes really nice things happen, too. And people here have had chances they wouldn't have back in their world, to meet their friends and loved ones again.

[ocean_souled]

A bit like anywhere else then.

Are you... happy here?

[buntails]

I'm fine. [She says it smiling and it's.. at least mostly true. She can live here. Though if Rei hadn't been here when she first arrived, if all the others ever went home without at least a few still being here, if she were alone here...]

[ocean_souled]

Fine is not happy. [And yet, Michiru smiles. She understands what Usagi means]

[buntails]

It really is alright. I promise.

[ocean_souled]

We all must make the best of situations, no?

[She looks down at her mirror again, and traces a finger across it's surface]

Still, I dislike this current disturbance.

[buntails]

[She becomes serious.]

I understand. It feels... sort of like when Dead Moon was around, doesn't it?