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[uraniumtea.livejournal.com]

[Two mis-matched feet appear on the mirror: one encased in concrete, the other seemingly orbited by electrons, not quite to scale.]

Is it like this? Ah, no... I'm supposed to do... this? Cat, are you sure your vine mirror is supposed to do this? Wait, don't--

[After some awkward shifting around of the "camera", the newcomer's face is finally revealed. She's changed back into her normal clothes by now -- though "normal" is a subjective term here.]

Oh... I see. Thanks. Um, bye? --Wait, you never told me your name!

[Utsuho frowns at the cat that's seemed to have lost its patience with her and left. She looks back at the mirror a little awkwardly, unused to this kind of... technology. She shifts in place, stretches out her raven wings, looks a little closer to see what's on the other side...]

...Hello? Hm, I feel like I'm talking to myself. Can someone really see this?

Can the, uh... [She holds up a scroll to quickly re-read and remind herself of the name.] Queen of Hearts see this? Am I supposed to be building something? I think I've forgotten somehow. I don't remember this place at all.

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[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

Please don't kill us all while doing so.

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[uraniumtea.livejournal.com]

Don't worry! I'll keep the output low! But high enough to vaporize her, of course.

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[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

Only if you can find her first...

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[uraniumtea.livejournal.com]

She's hiding? Well, I'll find her! Eventually.

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[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

Good luck with that, nobody here has had any.

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[uraniumtea.livejournal.com]

That doesn't matter. If anyone can do it, I can! I have the power of the Black Sun on my side.

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[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

At least you have your share of confidence.

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[uraniumtea.livejournal.com]

Just wait, you'll get to see my ultimate power soon enough.

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[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

[And that terrifies her.]

I think I might go blind if I did that.

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[uraniumtea.livejournal.com]

Blind? They're just suns.

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[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

I don't know how it works for you, but mostly everyone else has trouble looking directly at one.

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[uraniumtea.livejournal.com]

But there's a sun on the surface, too!

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[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

It's not on the surface, it's way above it. And even then, nobody is looking at it.

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[uraniumtea.livejournal.com]

So you always have to worry about looking at something that's sitting above your heads? Living on the surface sounds difficult.

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[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

Well, it also lights everything up during the day, keeps things warm and allows plants to absorb energy. We just can't look right at it because it is really bright.

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[uraniumtea.livejournal.com]

The sun underground does that, too. Except, it stays lit at night and we don't have any plants. But I can look at it! I had to manage its flames, so if I couldn't see it that would be a problem.

Our sun sounds better.

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[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

Well, the sun above just moves away, and then the moon shows up.

Can anyone else down there look at it?

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[uraniumtea.livejournal.com]

Orin can. And all the other hell ravens and kasha. Miss Satori and the oni usually don't go that deep, so I don't know about them.

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[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

I see, I thought it was only you because of what you do.

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[uraniumtea.livejournal.com]

Orin helps keep an eye on the flames, too, but since I got my power we don't need to use as many corpses to keep them alive.

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[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

[And now Alice is disturbed. Woot woot failure as a youkai.]

I think I'm learning more about the underground than I ever wished to.

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[uraniumtea.livejournal.com]

The surface is a lot weirder. I'm still learning things about it.

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[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

I... might be able to help with that?

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[uraniumtea.livejournal.com]

Really? How?

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[shanghaiworld.livejournal.com]

Well, I am from the surface. That should mean something, at least.