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Night 42: Rooftop - Residential area between Germaine St and Bohr St

Aug 05, 2009 00:32

[from here]Momo landed on the rooftop of one of the houses across the street from the bookstore. Fingertips digging into the shingles to stop her momentum as she slid out of the flash step, Momo's vision swam and she coughed harshly, spitting blood out of her mouth. She stayed kneeling once she came to a stop, leaning against the stone of the ( Read more... )

signum, hinamori momo

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blazing_general August 6 2009, 06:45:11 UTC

The zombie knight's arrival was impossible to miss; she had followed her target with another impossible leap, and landed heavily towards the center of the building Momo had stopped on.

Again it seemed slow, taking a moment to straighten after landing and turn towards Momo, but the jump that had carried it was evidence enough that it did not wholly share in the decrepitude of the townsfolk. Even without its arms and armor, it would have been a formidable opponent, as it had been in life...

hajike_tobiume August 6 2009, 20:13:59 UTC

The knight's landing did not escape Momo's senses. In fact, she felt the impact vibrate through the roof. She was expecting to have to immediately defend herself, yet it seemed Signum was not as fast as she'd been the last time Momo fought her. At least, that's the way it seemed as the knight took a lot longer than predicted.

Standing up, the shinigami wiped the blood off her face with her sleeve and focused her eyes on Signum. She had fought some since the Noah had taken her eye, but she had not faced anything remotely as strong as the knight before her. How much had this corruption affected Signum's prowess? How much of a handicap was the vice captain's limited sight going to be? These were all questions she assumed would be answered soon enough, but before anything further happened...

Stepping out from the chimney, Momo met those twin flames with her own eyes. "Signum, is there anything of you still there?"

blazing_general August 8 2009, 01:52:09 UTC

For some reason, it found that words came to it in the presence of the one it had sought. Thoughts burned quickly in the fires of her mind, but they lasted long enough to speak...

"Yes," it mouthed silently, "All of it."

Belatedly, it seemed to realize it couldn't speak, and moved a hand to its torn throat in what might have been irritation. It had found her, but there needed to be something more, didn't there...?

But all it could do was nod again.

hajike_tobiume August 8 2009, 02:05:10 UTC

As the undead knight's lips moved, Momo caught the intent behind it. The duty-bound side of her was relieved as it meant she could put Signum to rest while her soul was still her own, yet it made the side of her that valued friendship protest in agony. How could she destroy someone who was a friend, someone who was still there? Signum was strong, surely she could overcome this is she'd somehow managed to overcome death? Yet, the question remained if the knight had indeed overcome death. Momo had seen, felt, the knight's spirit threads cease as she died. She had known Signum's death had come. But... if Landel could force her healing kidou to harm instead, could he not possibly fool her senses?

You don't have time for this, the duty-bound side of her said. She was shinigami and this was a soul in the process of corruption. Friend or not, especially friend, Momo could not let this happen. She firmly believed Signum would not want her soul to endure more than it had to, to have everything that had been noble and honorable in ( ... )

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