2nd Bloom ~ Video / Action

[nephentes_rajah]

[ Yuuka appears on the mirror and she looks tired. Like... "hasn't had a scrap of food or sleep in a week" tired, not "hasn't fought something in a week" and bored. The distinction is in the bags under her eyes and the way she tracks the movement of leaves in the wind lazily. Even her tone lacks any of her normal vigor. ] ...this isn't where...

[ She can't even complete her thoughts. It's pretty bad for herm but if one is wondering the cause of all this, it's quite obvious. The green-haired youkai is literally sleeping in a pile of marigolds. Some have survived this attention, but some haven't.

Yuuka is also clutching something small and white in her left hand, but details are hard to see unless someone finds her in person; at risk to their own health, of course. ]

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[nephentes_rajah]

[ A slow shake of her head. ] I didn't leave something, I left... someone. Or they left me. [ Yuuka creases her brow. Why can't she remember the way? It's like she's lost in her own mind. ]

[cleaningstop]

Someone?

[That's surprising. Considering how nobody likes Yuuka.

Good thing that sick burn was contained in these brackets.]

This is sounding all too familiar! Like that time people here switched bodies and couldn't remember much about who they used to be...

But you're still you, right?

[nephentes_rajah]

I remember everything... everything but the way. [ There is some irritation there, but it's half-hearted.

She raises her hand and opens it to reveal one of those sugar skulls. This one is striped and bears a simple four-letter name right on its forehead: "ELLY" ]

[cleaningstop]

Elly?

... Who's that? And do you have a skull with their name on it?!

[nephentes_rajah]

It isn't real. [ To demonstrate this, Yuuka takes a big chunk out of the skull's face with her teeth. She chews only briefly on it before spitting a sugary glob off to the side. ] Ugh, too sweet...

[cleaningstop]

[Somehow, the idea of Yuuka literally biting out a piece of a skull's face with just her teeth is...

Pretty unsettling.

In fact she's kind of horrified.]

Too sweet? W-What do you mean?

[nephentes_rajah]

[ Calm your tits, Meiling. It would be far too small to be even a child's real skull, which should be obvious when she thrusts it toward the mirror. ] This is not hers.

[cleaningstop]

[Tits have been calmed.

Crisis averted.

For now.]

Where'd you find it? And if it's fake, or too sweet, then what does that mean?

[nephentes_rajah]

A tree spat it at me. [ It fell on her head as she slept. ]

[cleaningstop]

That's a strange way to have found it.

[nephentes_rajah]

Strange and rude, to disturb a sleeping flower.

[cleaningstop]

What are you going to do with the skull?

[nephentes_rajah]

[ To answer that, Yuuka just lets it fall from her hand onto the ground. She won't be eating it, that's for sure. ]