[voice]

[hihou]

-The voice on the other end is... tired. Weak from fasting. But probably from spending days upon days crying in her room as well. No one is keeping score.-

If my miracle powers were working... I could solve this famine. Why won't they work? Why can't I do any good here?

... I really am just taking up space, aren't I? A waste of everyone's time...

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[shanghaiworld]

And I happened to offer something that might help with that, didn't I?

[hihou]

It won't make any difference.

[shanghaiworld]

... I just want to know something. You're feeling so weak right now that you couldn't resist me if I tried to ram bread down your mouth, right?

[hihou]

...

You wouldn't do that.

[shanghaiworld]

By this point I'm thinking you'll pass out and not even notice if I did.

... Say, haven't you been on record of saying you are like a god bound in flesh or something?

[hihou]

I am...

[shanghaiworld]

Right, right, and if I remember correctly, gods of the shinto need faith to... do what they do, don't they?

What I'm trying to get at here is that... did those miracles of yours ever work here in the first place?

[hihou]

They could have... maybe... maybe I'm even more useless than I thought.

[shanghaiworld]

... Okay. So you can't do something only you can do. But there is still things that you can do that only you can.

[hihou]

I don't believe that.

[shanghaiworld]

... You know, I've recently found myself in an... odd situation. You were the only person I could think of to talk to about it, although it is a little awkward and things just keep happening, so I never got around to doing it.

[hihou]

This seems like a bad time to bring that up.

[shanghaiworld]

Which is why I want you to take care of yourself so I can bring it up at a better time.

[hihou]

You should really just leave me alone.

[shanghaiworld]

... Oh to hell with this! I'm leaving that basket of food right in your room, so you have to stare at it and succumb under it's temptation and there's nothing you can do about it!

[And she leaves to go set that up. And eventually it does show up, and there's a note saying to keep the doll as it lands on top of it, as it is a gift. Go on, do something about it, no-miracle girl!

... Alice sure can't, she collapsed from the strain after that. But Sanae won't know about that.]

[hihou]

-She'll probably get a tearful and sincere thanks when Sanae is feeling better.-

[shanghaiworld]

[Remember, your true friends are the ones who do nice things while looking amazingly pissed off.]