When you wish upon a... well, when you make a wish. [COMPLETED]

[ms_ema_skye]

Who: Ema, tagging Yuko
What: Ema ends up in Yuko's teahouse by accident, but decides to make a wish while she's there.
Where: um... Yuko's teahouse *points up*
When: After Ema oh-so-stupidly offered herself up to Matt via email
Rating: um... worksafe? Probably no worse than PG.
Open: 'fraid not.

God damn these doors.

Ema swore they were playing with her

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[spacetime_witch]

Yuko smiled broadly. "You agree then." She closed her eyes and made a fist with her right hand. For a moment, the room seemed to grow slightly darker, and small sparks of electricity darted out between her fingers. Suddenly, the world became lighter, the electricity disappeared, and Yuko opened her eyes and her hand.

Floating in her palm was a small butterfly, about the size of a marble. It fluttered and parts of it seemed to be an iridescent purple, but this beauty was intermixed with times when it was such a deep black it didn't even reflect light. It was crackling faintly.

Yuko caught the butterfly between the thumb and forefinger of her left hand, and held it out to Ema. "Swallow it quickly, and don't use any tea to help it down."

[ms_ema_skye]

Ema watched, wide-eyed and completely fascinated. Magic was nothing but careful lighting and parlor tricks in her world. Yuko's magic was real.

The instructions were just shy of ridiculous, however. Swallow a butterfly?! It was a magic butterfly, yes, but still... it was weird.

However, Ema was not about to bicker with Yuko over things she didn't understand. Gently, she took the butterfly from Yuko and swallowed. While it didn't go down terribly easily, she didn't choke on it like she anticipated.

[spacetime_witch]

Another half-smile from Yuko. She was quite surprised, it appeared. I guess there really is no such thing as real magic in her world, she thought

[ms_ema_skye]

Ema listened quietly and watched as Yuko moved around the room, setting out bedding for her. When Yuko asked for her ID, Ema removed it and set it on the table without a second thought. The ID would be much more useful to Yuko than it would be to her. Additionally, it was a weapon that she would gladly give to Yuko, since the woman had done so much already.

The other stipulation, however, was a bit harder to swallow. There went her plans to protect everyone from Matt's wrath. She worried a bit silently, but quickly found herself too tired to fret too much. She yawned a bit and decided that she would figure out the particulars when she felt more awake.

She went over to the futon and crawled into it. "Thank you, Yuko."

[spacetime_witch]

Yuko walked over to the table and picked up the ID. She slipped it into her obi, for safe keeping, then walked over to Ema. Looked like the girl was almost completely out. She pulled up the cover of the futon around her shoulders, then gently lifted the girl's head to slip a pillow underneath. "You're welcome, Ema," she said softly, brushing some of the scientific investigator-to-be's hair out of her eyes.

She stood up. "There are wards on this room, so you can sleep relatively safely here. I've kept all the doors in this teahouse open a crack to stop you from ending up somewhere odd. I'll be on the back porch if you need me, its the first door on your left if you exit this room."

With that, she slipped quietly out of the side room, then out into her courtyard to do some thinking.