Who: Chihiro Ogino and YOU!
When: August 22nd
Where: The Garden Library, Kuja's Library, and the shrine
What: Chihiro goes looking for something to read, and thinks on what she finds
Rating: PG-13 for romance talk? Other than that, probably nothing.

The Library
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Kuja's Library
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Gensokyo Shrine
[All in all, after having become acquainted with the literature apparently commonplace in the gardens, it's a distracted and slightly brooding Chihiro that goes about the business of tending to the shrine. Sweeping and polishing and sweeping some more, and finally rounding it off with a bit of praying at the shrine.]

[Oh God everything is so cute and wonderful and they're trying to BAKE and Jessica might be about to splode from delight right now. OH GOD THAT ONE HAS A CHEF HAT. It is so fabulous that she almost forgot to order. Almost. The chocolate chip cookies are entirely too tempting, although she's noticed that the lack of tastebuds thing is rarely conducive to great food. Still, she definitely wants to encourage the robots in their efforts, so...]

[Samus is going to try a little experiment today, which would explain why she's currently wearing her armor. The idea is simple enough, and she begins executing it.

Having picked a less populated area of the Gardens, Samus starts to run straight forward. A few seconds later, she ends up moving faster and faster until the Speed Booster activates.

Once it does, she comes to a full stop almost instantly before performing a vertical shinespark. Launching herself high into the air, she continues traveling upwards until hitting the invisible barrier. Despite the high altitude and resulting free fall, she safely lands back on the ground.

She then looks upward at the sky.]

Not even a dent...

[ooc: the vine probably caught her during mid-boost, just not for very long. samus can run at supersonic speeds with the speed booster.]

The mirror on the vine shows the newest woman in the Gardens, a tall, pale ("fair"), soft-looking woman with hair that could ironically be deemed 'Princess Curls,' in a new entrant's shift that's a bit too short for her.

She isn't outraged or panicking; she's seething as she physically hoists a rabbit away from her corset, her pink gown, and her crown. She flips her white shift over her head without any hesitation, modesty or embarrassment, and begins dressing herself.

"If my latest kidnapper addresses me as 'the Princess of Aerisland,' then I swear by Hurane and the god of exhausted patience as my witnesses that I shall simply strike him and affect my own rescue," she says as she attempts to tighten her own corset. "At least that way I shall gain some welcome respect from the lady Falwythwr." She pauses, then laughs, once, to herself. "And while I am planning for my casting of Wish, I should very much like a unicorn."

Wretch.

[It is a single withering syllable before the mirror takes form, the voice piercing through the silence with its anger. As the image solidifies within, the Warrior Princess waits, expression dark.]

You will return the Damsel to me, or I shall take out your still-beating heart.

[Again she waits for an answer, one which is not forthcoming. That stormy expression, shadows brooding across her brow, soon becomes hardened and stony. She is resolved, and her eyes lift, looking out at whoever has gathered as her audience.]

I will not tolerate this slight to our independence. These Queens, for all the good their 'nobility' does for them, have refused to resolve this situation. I will resolve it for them. I will lay waste on she who dares pluck the Damsel from this grove.

I call upon all of you, all of you who hold friends and loved ones near to your heart, to take up your swords alongside me. If you do not wield one of your own, then I beg you put your spirit behind mine: there is still much work for hands such as yours. The blacksmith is no lesser a warrior.

Come together and we will form something unbreakable.

[She takes something from her belt, a scroll that she begins to untie as she continues to speak.]

I need scouts to survey the Garden while preparations are being made, and I will need these. [She holds up the plans to what appears to be a flying machine.] She is quick and she is crafty, but so shall we be.

Who is with me.

[It is not a question.]

[The video feed comes to life, showing a young Japanese school girl with bright yellow hair. She is wearing what looks like a normal school uniform with a big white fluffy sweater over it. There are tears in her eyes and she looks scared out of her wits.]

H-Hello? M-My name is K-Kise Yayoi. Please, w-where am I? [she holds up a scroll] A-A cat gave me this a-and said I-I could use this weird vine...can someone t-tell me how I-[her eyes widen with horror] Did I do the book thing wrong? [more tears fall from her eyes]

I-I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! I-I know th-the fairy said I-I needed to be careful but I wasn't even thinking of a-a-[she is cut off as she cries].

[To say Sapphire was displeased at finding herself here would be an understatement. Was this a kidnapping? Some kind of sorcery? Either way, she couldn't be certain that she wasn't in danger, so she has her sword drawn as she explores the Gardens, and the Vine has brought forth a mirror to record each and every one of her words and movements.]

To whoever is in charge, I ask that you show yourself! If this is simply a misunderstanding, then I believe we can resolve things peacefully, but if this is a kidnapping… that is unforgivable!

[She tightens her grip on her sword, and she bits her lower lip before speaking again, this time in a whisper.]

What sort of place is this? It seems so eerily calm…