1148/Cursed Questions

Cursed Questions
Date of Scene:	20 February 2024
Location:	Administrative Office
Synopsis:	Ahmya has questions for Setsuna, alongside Kaori!
Cast of Characters:	Ahmya Karashima, Kaori Jira, Setsuna Meiou

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Ahmya Karashima has posed:
     It had taken a little bit, but Ahmya had gotten a possible lead on helping Kaori with her problem! So, after texting and/or calling Kaori or just physically hunting her down, she dragged her down to the Radiant Heart Academy nurse's office! "So my friend that the nurse here is a person who might be able to help you with the problem you're looking into. Or at least she might know where to direct us! I already checked my other options, but Auntie Rache said she really wasn't a good option to help because of how her powers work."

Pause. "Her magic requires kind of a balance when she's not just Taking because she's a youma." She adds.

Yes she was talking without regard for who heard as she walked up to the Nurse's office, pausing just long enough at the entrance to it to knock on the door half a moment before realizing. Wait it's the nurse's office. You just open the door and go in. Which she would then proceed to do with an ever so slight blush on her cheeks. She was, of course, presently wearing her uniform since she was at the school.

Kaori Jira has posed:
The last visit to the library after meeting Ahmya had been enlightening for Kaori...and it had lead to the building getting destroyed. That one hadn't been her fault, but it had been a good day. Still, the taller girl with the dark hair and wrapped in her stolen leather jacket around her faded uniform, the young woman had her arms crossed under her bust.

She didn't even bat an eyelid at the mention of the youma. Figures. Who was she to judge?

Following along, Kaori's eyes scanned the room with a frown on her lips.

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
As the two young women come into the Infirmary, the'll probably first note that...nobody seems to be there.

Well, at first glance, that is.

A second look will probably catch that one of the closets is open...and a moment later, Nurse Meiou comes walking out of it, holding a large white tackle box.

As she steps into the room, she walks over to one of the beds before looking at the two and saying, "Please, Miss Karashima, Miss Jira. Step over here, have a seat, and please explain to me the nature of your magical malady."

Either the Nurse is prescient or she's got excellent hearing.

One of the two.

Ahmya Karashima has posed:
     "Wait. Did I say Youma? She's a Yokai, they're a bit different, though I don't know exactly how beyond that I think Youma are created, while Yokai are born? I don't know for sure though." Ahmya continues yammering on towards Kaori a moment, as the room seems to be empty, surely the Nurse would be there soon!

She pauses as she turns her one eye towards the open closet. Huh that's a bit we...ird. "..."

Ahmya quietly stares a moment with her one eye. Wait. Wait. That's a closet. She was bringing out supplies. That wasn't as weird as she thought in hindsight. If she knew what was actually going on in that closet there's a good chance she'd be excited but that's beside the point. "Hello, nurse! ... ... You make a note to learn all of the students don't you?" Because she didn't really meet Setsuna before. She thinks. Maybe some sort of physical exam she wasn't paying much attention to? Oh well.

"This is Kaori Jira! She says that she's cursed. Or at least one of her friends is? She came to the library looking into ways to break it but the library, understandably, doesn't have any real books on curse breaking in it -- at least not in the obvious areas. She explained it to me as being from another world and originally having a different body as well, but being stuck in the human one when she got here?" She pauses.

"But she can probably give better explanations of it than I can honestly." She says, moving over to take a seat on a chair. "I've looked into the occult for a while but most of the stuff casually available doesn't have much actual cursebreaking to it... and my own powers are not very strongly purifying since they're from a trade with a Yokai." She really isn't tight-lipped about her magic at all, huh? ...

She might be a bit nervous and being chatty because of it. Look. Setsuna is cool. This is a fact.

Kaori Jira has posed:
"I have no idea," Kaori offers, a little shift of her stance and perhaps slightly gruff tone given. She didn't even know the word 'Kaiju' after all, but she blinks as she's suddenly addressed, seemingly known. Strange.

The taller girl was a little taken aback by Ahmya being so very open and honest about her situation and being a non-human.

She turns, her gaze shifting to sweep over the nurse, gaging her reaction.

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
Nurse Meiou smiles at Ahmya's commenting about her knowing names and winks.

She then focuses on Kaori and does't seem all that bothered by the mention of someone being 'non-human', "So not originally in a body like this?"

She frowns and taps her chin for a moment, "...depending on what your original form was, that might be less a case of a 'curse' and more a really radical 'translation' spell."

She leans back a bit, "...if you're originally non-corporeal, it might also be a kind of binding."

After a moment, she blinks, then produces a small hand mirror and angles it so that she look at each of the other young women in turn through it.

Ahmya Karashima has posed:
     "Ah, sorry, Kaori, I probably should have just let you explain what was going on instead of doing it for you; I just got excited about maybe finding something that could help you." Ahmya says, dipping her head towards Kaori with a soft apologetic look. "I was told by a friend that I trust that we could trust her with magical problems because she's also magical, and since she's a trained nurse it's likely she's encountered a lot of interesting and weird things." She says softly by means of explanation.

Setsuna's wink gets a slight tilt of Ahmya's head. Well that's. Probably a confirmation, right? Anyway. That said, once Setsuna was more directly seeming to be focusing on Kaori, she stops with her own input towards it; Kaori was her own person and could give her own responses, as well as knowing MORE about the situation. When the mirror is directed at Ahmya...

... ... Yeah she's just her. Also the angle allows a view of Hachi on Ahmya's shoulder, half-hidden in the girl's hair. What looks like a normal golden orb weaver beyond the fact that its abdomen is what appears to be an eye. Though upon being spotted the spider would immediately retreat further into Ahmya's hair and out of sight again.

Kaori Jira has posed:
Ironically enough, Nurse Meiou was far more on the money than she'd realise. After all, Kaori herself might call it cursed, but the truth of the matter was that she was essentially 'contained' in this new form. Sealed even...though, there was a little crack perhaps given her new ability to transform...though that form was not her own either, even if it was better.

The reflection was perfectly normal, it looked like the girl she was to the naked eye.

Seemingly Setsuna was fine with all this, an expert...and so Kaori shrugs. "I did not look like this, I was not...this. Now I am. I was pulled from somewhere else to here."

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
Nurse Meiou ahs, "Yes, that sounds a lot more like a binding of some sort than a curse...which means that breaking it is a whole different procedure...and sadly not one I have supplies for."

She waves at the tackle box she'd brought out, "If it was a curse, I have some things here that will at least get a response from most of the common kinds. Prayer Strips. Incense. Holy Water."

She then leans back a bit, "Bindings are much much different, however...and I imagine unraveling it will depend quite greatly on how it was accomplished in the first place."

She looks back over to Kaori, "Which means the question then becomes: Do you WANT to break the binding and go back to wherever? Or would you prefer to stay here?"

She shrugs, "Depending on your former circumstances, living in the here-and-now might be a much better prospect."

Ahmya Karashima has posed:
     Ahmya turns her one eye towards Kaori, a slight concerned look on her face. She was trying to stay quiet and not kibbitz too much! ... ... But she also didn't have much more to add, since that was about how it was described to her, too. "Yeah. I know a little bit but like... that right there is something that, like. Is way outside of my own skills. Especially 'cause I'm pretty new in this whole fight against the Dark Twilight Pact and other evils."

She falls silent again, listening to Setsuna as she goes into what she's talking about. She lifts her hand. "I have training as a shrine maiden if it would help at all, Nurse." Ahmya says, though she hesitates again at the follow-up question from Setsuna.

Right. If they succeeded, Kaori might be gone.

...Even if she only knows her in passing pretty much at this point, she felt some sort of connection with her since she'd been working on try to figure out ways to help her at this point. "..." Hm. "Well... if it's a binding it probably would take a while to figure out, so I imagine any answers like that could be thought about too, right?"

Kaori Jira has posed:
IF they succeeded, Kaori might vanish back to her home dimension...or they might be dealing with a Kaiju suddenly appearing in the academy, crushing things and destroying the city by impulse or accident. So it could be dangerous for -everyone- involved. Still, she crosses her arms under her arms. She unfolds her arms, blinking at that question and considering. A little moment of pondering. Life here was strange, very different, less violent and...well, she was smaller and weaker than she was supposed to be...but she'd found new people, friends...who knows?

Kaori didn't really have an answer to Setsuna's question.

Setsuna Meiou has posed:
Nurse Meiou looks at both other women, then nods, "I can see that's a question you'll probably need to ponder on...and by your reaction, it seems there's no particular time crunch involved."

She stands up straight from where she'd been leaning against the other bed, then walks over to the corner and fiddles with a jar there before turning back and walking towards the two.

"Since that seems to be the case, I advise you take your time...think about things thoroughly before moving forward toward steps that cannot be undone."

Then she hands each of the other two a full sized Snickers candy bar.

Oddly enough, all of the labeling and info are printed in English.

She then gives Ahmya a very severe look for a moment before saying, "...and let your familiar know that as long as it treats you and those around you right, I don't have any problems with it."^

The implication for consequences otherwise is left hanging there unsaid.

Ahmya Karashima has posed:
     Ahmya was a bit curious as she watched Kaori's reaction. The silence and lack of immediate answer. Huh. She'd expected a more... immediate one with how she'd been acting in the library. "...Something must have happened, huh?" She murmurs under her breath to herself. Of course, in a small enough room like the nurse's office, it was pretty easy to hear that.

But it wasn't her decision to make either way. Aaaand... there was a Snickers being offered to her! Ooh, candy. She reaches to take the offered snickers with a polite bow of her head towards Setsuna. "Thank you." She is looking over it with her one eye carefully, not immediately opening it. Because it's honestly kind of a curiosity to her at the moment.

The comment of the familiar causes a bit of her hair to jolt suddenly, Hachi clearly having thought she had evaded being spotted. Eventually, the eye-spider crawled out of Ahmya's hair and perched atop her head, giving a little wave of one of its legs... before slipping back into hiding in Ahmya's hair/under her clothes. "Ah... Hachi? ...She's harmless, mostly she stays hidden because I don't want her to spook people since it'd be mean to surprise people with a spider when arachnophobia is pretty common." Ahmya straightens up, one hand slipping up to lightly pat where Hachi likely was.

"...I don't know if she could actually harm anyone? Hm... well I suppose she's still a golden orb weaver so she could hurt someone. ...But she mostly just helps me keep an eye on things since I haven't fully adjusted to my missing eye."

Haha. Eye spider. Keeping an eye on things.