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[The vine's mirrors seem to be following Souji without her being aware of it, or at least, without her caring. Currently, she's wandering around the garden hefting a big, new, heavy-looking spade. And also a cartoonish purple flower that appears to be growing out of her head, since she had to go get new dirt to make the spade. The theater masks floating around, though, are probably a result of the flowers.]

[When she finds a cluster of the mystery flowers, she acts methodically, with the irritated look of someone who's experienced getting close to the damn things a couple of times already. She stands back and invokes a Persona, the image of Scathach appearing above her and covering the harshly-scented blooms in ice. Then, Souji goes to work with the spade, silently and grumpily.]

[At some point in the day, she notices the mirror following her, gets bored, and addresses it.]

As much fun as I had sharing dreams, cracks in reality seem a little too dangerous, you know? Anyone else working on this?

((Feel free to tag video or action, she's going all over the place until her mana runs out.))

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Awesome! Nearest patch of them should be this way.

[And off she goes.]

[and now she's got a little shadow trailing her! Xion follows, spotting the indicated plants, and moves around them for a moment while she decides on her angles of attack.]

Okay...freeze!

[she takes her Keyblade in both hands, pointing it at them, and a lump of shimmering air arcs up and lands in the center of the cluster of plants. The effect is nearly instantaneous, encasing most of them in a block of ice.]

Oh...uh...I didn't think about that. That's gonna make it hard to pull them up...

For all the times I've cast an ice spell, I never figured out how to make things stay frozen for more than a second.

Well, let's try this.

[Souji walks up and gives the solid block of ice a nice, solid heel kick, trying to shatter it.]

Well, it only lasts for a little while, and then it stops working, but I haven't used it on regular flowers before, just Heartless.

[she blinks and steps back as the ice cracks and crumbles a bit, leaving chunks still clinging to the plants. But at least they're more accessible now.]

Woah! You're really strong.

I have a lot of training in kicking stuff. My best friend is kind of the mistress of it.

[Souji takes out the parasol that was her old sword and starts picking off chunks of the cracked ice with it.]

So what's a Heartless?

Wow. [Xion looks thoroughly impressed. She's never been able to break anything without the aid of a weapon, really.]

[she moves to help Souji with her Keyblade.]

A Heartless...they're creatures, um, monsters. They eat people's hearts.

[Between the picking action and the warmth of the Gardens, it's not too long before the plants are again at least grippable. And also very dead aboveground.]

Sounds painful. We had monsters called Shadows at home, but they were all in a different world and most people don't know about them.

Only in one world? That's better than every world, at least...

[she has to put her whole weight into pulling up the flowers, tiny as she is. When the one she's been working at abruptly comes free, she falls on her backside.]

Ow!

Be careful, Xion. Spread your feet and get a good stance, like this.

[Souji proceeds to demonstrate, tugging at a particularly embedded flower...and falling over herself and getting covered in torn-up dirt when half the root structure flies free of the ground suddenly.]

Ha! Ow.

[Xion giggles despite herself, clapping a hand over her mouth.]

Sorry! It's just...

Hey, if I do something that stupid, please laugh. It helps.

[She stands and brushes herself off.]

I don't think it was stupid. These flowers are really stuck, that's all.

True enough. Let's try doing these big ones together.

All right.

[she dusts herself off and moves over to grasp the stem of another flower, waiting for Souji to join her before bracing herself to pull.]

[Souji leans down next to Xion, getting a good grip on another part of the plant.]

Ready?

1, 2, 3!

[Pull!]

[she takes Souji's cue and does so, the plant coming free after a little bit of straining on their parts. She stumbles a little, but manages not to fall.]

We did it!

[Souji, likewise, holds her ground this time.]

Yep.

Thanks, Xion.

You're welcome.

[she smiles up at the older girl, feeling accomplished. Nothing really compared to the feeling of working together with someone else and succeeding.]

Could I ask...who was that person that was with you earlier?

[she means Scathach, not entirely understanding what a summoning is.]

[Souji smiles, closes her eyes, and focuses, the image appearing above her again briefly.]

This is Scathach. She's...part of my mind, I guess. I basically summon her to cast magic.

[The image fades. It's hard to keep that image up and going when she's not actively making an attack. Souji idly wonders how Rise does it, now that she thinks about it.]

Part of your mind...I've never seen magic like that. So she's not another person?

Nope. A part of me, and maybe a little part of my friends. That's the only magic I know of where I'm from...

A part of your friends...? So, you actually borrow strength from them?

Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. Supposedly, the stronger my "bonds", the stronger my Personas. Not that I wouldn't want to be friends with my friends anyway...

[she smiles a bit.]

I've heard about friends strengthening your heart, but...that's pretty amazing.

It's one more thing to be grateful to my friends for. Back home and here.

Friends like you and Sora, in fact.

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