2312/You Have What Now

You Have What Now
Date of Scene:	10 February 2025
Location:	Dorms #1
Synopsis:	Hinoiri is excited to tell Emi all the news.
Cast of Characters:	Emi Hoshino, Hinoiri Kirara

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Emi Hoshino has posed:
Emi is bored.

Her injured ribs mean a lot of her usual activities are foreclosed to her. People with one fractured rib can get around pretty well with some pain medication and support.

She has three,.

And so Emi has arranged herself comfortably on her bed. She;'s already doing far better than most would in her shoes, the restful sleep she's been (forced) to get does a lot for her.

Aside from the excitement of finding out she as right about the Neon Labyrinth, she has mostly been spending her days (and nights) in bed. At least, she's told, she'll receive some support from the school through the In The Know Nurse -- something she's told is happens, but is still sort of unbelievable to her given her own experiences.

She taps on her phone, scrolling through news, forums, image boards. Her dinky television is on a movie she doesn't even know the title of. It's just been going from one to the other,.

BORED.

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
There was a saying about 'Boredom' and the like. And it was a few minutes later that Emi received a text from Hinoiri. 'Hey, I'm coming over.'

But Hinoiri wasn't home, in her room... She was out. So Emi had a little time. Only a little. There was a small knock eventually... and Hinoiri was there. Arms crossed, wearing a jacket, a smirk and violence! Well, not the last bit. And... "Huh. All things considered, you don't look bad. How you feeling?"

And she didn't sound accusatory!

In fact, she had a big grin on her face and a... new ring? "So, how's my favorite patient today? Did you manage to avoid doing anything too dangerous, reckless or self-maimable? Cause I've got some good news~"

Emi Hoshino has posed:
Her phone dings with Hinoiri's assigned message tone.

"It's the Famous Mister Ed!"

As Emi's english is only 'ok', it was quite the google hunt to find a properly annoying one for her. Hopefully, she'll never discover her full ring tone for her or it might well be the bat if she recognizes it. Texting back, she just replies with 'k' and settles in to wait, sprawling lackadaisically on top of her blankets. She's still managing to keep herself gothy -- girl's got priorities -- but she's definitely not up to her usual snuff with regards to her dress. Call it Goth-Casual, if you would.

"Mostly," she replies innocently, "There's not a whole lot of trouble I can get into from here, right?" She forms a smile, knowing that her being in bed is not exactly any kind of assurance that she's not up to no good.

Favorite patient did get her to make a face, however, before she raises her eybros at her (and her eyebrow game is at least on point), "What's that?" she asks, obvious trepidation rising into her voice.

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Hinoiri Kirara would walk in and sit either on the end of the bed or on whatever furniture was available. She could understand Emi's desire to wear the goth garb regardless of her role, after all. Hinoiri wasn't a villain anymore, but she still likely to wear spike jackets, blacks and reds. Even if she sometimes wore more sparkly things.

She then pulled out a small compact and... "Good news. I've got sparkle powers now. Apparently, I resonate with mermaids. It was pretty great, all things considered. I got to drive a dune buggy covered filled with cleaning supplies into a youma. It wasn't very effective, but it was fun."

... Wait, didn't she yell at Emi for fighting youma one on one?

Emi Hoshino has posed:
Really, Emi's room is pretty spartan, but there is a desk and chair -- two of them, actually, since her room is intended tp have more than just her in it. Alas, they have yet to find a roommmate for her. Such a travesty.

"Wait," she begins, "what? Mermaids?" She arches her eyebros even higher before she squints at the compact. "... and a compact?" she asks, having no idea ho these things work or what their deal is. "... you hit a monster with a buggy?" She asks, incredulously. "Well ... okay?? I'm happy you got some magic?" She's very confused right now. She had not long ago been told, after all, that Hinoiri didn't have magic aside from being a unicorn which ... unicorn! Admittedly, that sort of overwhelms the rest. KenKen crawls out from under the bed and then hops from the floor onto the desk in a single jump, "Hi, Hinoiri," she squeaks.

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Hinoiri Kirara gave a small smirk, before nodding. "I'm happy to see you, too. And yeah, it had grabbed all the other girls and since there was a barrier up, a barrier is kind of a magical 'Nothing actually gets destroyed and civilians are kicked out' thing, I just grabbed a dune buggy that maintenance used and BOOOM! Just drove it into the youma! It was... not effective. But I was just trying to buy the other's time, but then I got a device. And now? I am Cure La Licorne!"

As the spider came out, she reached out and gave it a little pat. "Hey, KenKen, long time no see."

"So, how goes operation 'Get you some sparkle buddies'? Meet anyone interesting? And what'd the nurse say?"

Emi Hoshino has posed:
KenKen purrs.

Yes, spiders can purr. Some of them, anyway, and it doesn't sound like a cat's purr but the principle is the same. She's gonna jump on Hinoiri next to demand spider-pets, because of course it does. Spiders are a little more like cats than some realize. At least this one is.

"Uh, well. So far Usagi is blowing up my phone about inconsiderate film makers, Mamoru is very tall. Amy is ... still jumping to conclusions, Madoka seemed nice but she had fairies which was, well, I've seen them in dreams but never here." She's answering the second part of her question first, because she's still digesting the first half, having looked on it with big eyes for a time. "I had to explain why I didn't go to the hospital so *that* was fun to explain. But she fixed up my hands and helped me tape myself up which was good." She rests her hands against her right side. "Anyway, I think they're a little worse off than bruised," she admits, chagrinned. "I'm probably gonna be down longer than I'd hoped."

DUH, Emi. DUH.

"So, uh... Cure La Licorne?" She has no idea why it has 'cure' in front of it. "Show me?" she asks, curiously. She can show her magic, surely.

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Hinoiri Kirara blinkd a few times. "In... considerate... film makers? What? And yeah, Mamoru is very tall. Nice guy, though. He stabbed my hand back when I was evil, but to be fair I had just kidnapped one of their friends. I was a teensy bit of a jerk then. Amy... Amy just does that. You get... used... to it," Hinoiri said with a sigh. "She does mean well, though. She's just not always the best with... people. She's getting better, though."

"Madoka's pretty great. Mean right hand, though. Gotta watch out for that. but she sticks up for what she believes in and I've never known her to not offer help, even to the undeserving."

The mention of her being hurt longer than expected, that made her frown. She then nodded. "Well, at least you're taking care of yourself this time. Trust me, I get it. I HATE being laid up. It happened a lot. But... it's better than the alternative. Dying. That sucks. Don't recommend."

She grinned when Emi asked. "Welllll... if you insist." Insist her flank. Hinoiri needed almsot NO encouragement. The moment she asked, Hinoiri pulled it out and well...

Hinoiri placed her heart kuru ring into her tropical pact and turned it clockwise, causing the pact to open. "Precure! Tropical change!" The pact opened, showing her reflection. She smirked and reached a hand up, putting a pair of shaded glasses on. "Let's make up! Bling!"

"Cheeks!" She tapped her cheeks with the shell brush, causing a little red. "Lips!" She applied the lipstick next. "Eyes!" And she brushed it over them, causing the shades to disappear with a flash and her to get eyeshadow. "Hair!" And there was the animation budget. Her hair erupted into flames, vanishing from her head to become a massive inferno. The inferno then retracted, becoming a strange distorted mass of writhing energy, as if one was staring at a sunset through a portal, and the portal was her hair. "Dress!"

Low heeled boots formed on her feet, fingerless black gloves with a sun emblem on the back of each. Flames erupted from her ankles and rolled up her body, covering her in a black bodysuit up to her chest, then forming a partial coat over her shoulders and arms. Spikes erupted from the wrists and boots a moment later, before a flaming skirt formed, snuffing out to reveal a sun-themed skirt. A small pouch to hold her compact formed at her hip a moment later. She then snapped her fingers three times, each time creating a small spurt of flames, before a definitely wicked grin formed on her lips. "Righteous Indignation! Cure La Licorne!"

"So, what do you think?" She looked like she was about to light Emi on fire and then stuff her in a locker...

Emi Hoshino has posed:
"Oh yeah. Just taking acre of myself. No trouble at all here. Being absolutely restful and allowing things to wait and others to like help and shit, you know."

Emi smiles up at her. IT's not reassuring, It's designed not to be reassuring. However, the rest of what she said definitely has her staring at Hinoiri with her eyebrows crawling further up her head. Stabbed dhand, kidnapping, mean right hand. Right. She didn't know Hinoiri when she was 'bad', as has been noted, and so she really only has an incomplete picture of what that means until moments like this, and their own initial encounters.

And then there's that change. The spikes, the bodysuit ... the fire. And flery hair. Now, Emi has seen some strange thjings in her time, especially in the dreamworld, but this is here and pretty impressive... but that fire is awfully close to her and she has the understandably primal reaction to scooch back from it until she realizes it produces no actual heat or visible smoke. Magical. Her characteristic serene seeming disinterest is absolutely rattled for a long moment.

"Shit," she says, holding a hand out towards her, as if to check the heat that may be rolling off her. She isn't sure what else to say, so she just repeats 'Shit' a second time, and then...

"That's... that's... amazing, So cool. Or fiery, I guess." Try as she might to hide it, she can not totally control the secondhand joy she feels for Hinoiri, She could tell that her 'lack of sparkles' so to speak is something that had clearly bothered her for likely what are the obvious reasons.

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Cure La Licorne nodded and then gave a light snicker. "No, I know exactly how hard it is. Trust me. I once fell into a pond while hunting a dragon migration and nearly froze to death. Ended up spending almost two weeks in bed, so weak I couldn't even kick off the covers. It bucking sucked... but... you need to heal, so you can go out and do some wild things again. Otherwise you'll just get hurt again."

And the praise upon seeing her henshin? Oh, it made her beam. "Oh yeah. I am loving this. I used dark energy before but it really wasn't the same." She shadow boxed a few times. "It's like... this is MINE. Actually mine. It doesn't hurt. Dark energy always hurt, it felt like I was trying to... like... suck out my life, to pay some cost when I used it. But this? Just just feels natural. Also, like, I can jump a few hundred feet in the air. Still getting used to that. Magic is definitely different, too. But I'm figuring it out. I feel... like me, again. In a lot of ways. Like I'm able to help."

And then she reached out, patting her on the head. "And you will, too, Emi. Once you've healed up. You'll be back out there, in dreams, fighting. Until then? You need to heal up. Then we can work on getting other people into dreams and stuff when you need them."

Emi Hoshino has posed:
Did... did Hinoiri just pat her on the head like she;;'s some kind of tiny anime girl? Okay, she's not exactly tall, she'll admit that, but STILL. And worse, it makes her blush and this just upsets her a little bit more and it comes out as a bit of a glower at her. A glower made ridiculous by her faintly flushed pallor.

"Yeah. yeah. Healing up. That's me," she ducks her head a little and stares down at the floor intently because UGH why is she so infuriating.

"It's really cool you got some magic back, and I can imagine how channeling like nightmare shit must feel so I'm glad you're not doing anything like that now and good grief how many deaths have you nearly had?! You're sure you're not actually some kind of cat, right? Sounds like you might actually have more than nine lives."

KenKen shakes herself off once and then sits up on her hind legs, body facing upwards.

"You've had a lot of near deaths too, Emi!"

"Not helping, KenKen!"

"I am well aware this constitutes 'not helping'. That is for when we are working."

"Ugh, shut up!"

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Cure La Licorne blinked a few times. "How many near death... huh... there was... the time in the dusk zone... the time with moon... the other time with Moon... then that other, other time with Moon... The time with the Witch... the other time with the witch... Beryl, though I didn't almost die I was just trapped in a block of crystal, unmoving for days... there was that time with the hydra... the three times with the dragons..." she mumbled, counting on her fingers... using both hands, multiple times...

Pause. Blink.

"Actually... maybe... Oh! And the time Catra almost killed me maybe? She was a cat. I'm not, though. If I was, I'd have sooooo died a long time ago. But like. I didn't used to make the best choices, so like... maybe... don't... try to imitate me. Eh... heh heh..." She rubbed the back of her head.

"... Do all the deaths in the time loop count? Cause I died like... a few dozen times there."

Emi Hoshino has posed:
Emi Hoshino just stares at her for a long time. She has no idea what to say to any of that. She really doesn't. It's a level beyond anything she's able to quite conceptualize. Sure, she's almost died several times, most recently in the fight that landed her in this predicament, it's not the same as...

Well, not the same as all that. She reaches up to take one of her hands in her's, to squeeze it.

"...hey, no. That's a lot. Let's... let's move on from... yeah. That's a good idea," she manages to stutter out before she quickly lets go of her hand.

"I'll pretend all of that made perfect sense and move on. Okay. Uhm... Like .... apparently there was another nightmare after all and I was right! They brought the remnants by so KenKen could eat them."

"It was pretty tasty," agrees KenKen.

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Cure La Licorne blinked a few times and then, slowly, her cheeks went red. "O-oh. OH! Oh, no, no no no. That was the old me. I ummm... I've gotten a LOT better than... I am a lot better now. I used to have this... thing... about overworking. I thought if I... overdid it enough, my mentor would notice me and... yeah. It wasn't healthy."

She dropped the henshin, returning to Hinoiri. "Since becoming this? I've only almost died... never. Actually. Huh. Neat."

She glances down to KenKen and chuckles, giving him a little pat. "Good lil spider. You know, back home a lot of the talking spiders are bigger than the people. Having a talking one that's like... normal spider sized is pretty cool."

She then glanced over to Emi and smiled. "And that's good! I know it sucks being laid up, but I really am proud of you, Emi. Making the right choices, taking care of yourself. If you do this, you'll be back on your hooves before you know it. Feet. Back on your feet."

"... And trust me. It's... a lot funner than going it alone." She gave the other girl's hand a little squeeze, smiling to her. "So... I figure I'm over, wanna do something? Like, unless you'd rather just get some rest, I can vamoose."

... Admittedly... she just didn't wanna go back to her place. She was... still avoiding it when she could.

Emi Hoshino has posed:
Though she's loathe to admit it, she really doesn't want to be alone right now either. Between the pain and the boredom, company is awfully nice to consider.

"Making the right choices? Me? You jest, surely. I'm a super dangerous delinquentm, after all." She grimaces as she sets herself back up on the bed carefully.

"Wanna play some like video games and shit? Or watch a movie?" She observes her out of the corner of her eye, trying not to be amused -- slightly -- by the correction from hooves to feet.

KenKen pipes up, "It sounds great, Emi. We should go sometimes. Meet new spiders!"

Emi groans.

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
Hinoiri Kirara shook her head. "Likely not a good idea. Most the spiders I met there were like, part of this weird... 'family'... they called it. Some crime organization. I don't think you'd want to be a part of them." Pause. "Also, I lit their webbing on fire and booked it. Something, something, life vendetta, something something sleep with the fishes, I never went back to THAT part of the country..."

"... Anyway, yeah, movie. Let's watch something. What do you got?" she asked, moving over and laying back against the headrest of the bed.

Emi Hoshino has posed:
"Well, there's a whole bunch of shit I've seen but you probably haven't being from a place where spiders apparently for a criminal outfit so, you know, I'm gonna guess like there's so much out there that we could watch that you just haven't seen it, so let's find some good ones.."

Emi starts cycling through her horror movies on her tv, tons of witch have 'WATCHED' under their name. Girl likes her scary stuff.

"Hm," she continues, "Bet you've probably never seen Ringu - or Alien, or ... Tell me which ones of these you have seen?" She's scrolling down a list of classics, now. Trying to see what she likes. What draws her eye.

Hinoiri Kirara has posed:
"Admittedly, I haven't watched much television. Alien sounds fun? Is it like... the 'phone home' thing? I think I saw something about it at one point." Probably from Amy. It sounded like the kind of thing Amy would watch.

... Granted... if it WAS Alien... she'd admit, the aliens in this world were FAR more metal than she'd been led to believe. Though it might freak out Emi to hear the number of species from her world that the monster reminded her of...

... Probably worry her a LOT. She was from a world of PONIES, right?!

Emi Hoshino has posed:
"Sure, Alien it is."

Emi is down with Alien, really. She needs subtitles. English is not her strongest skill, but she can understand some of it and honestly watching Alien means that she gets to watch AlienS next, and she suspects that might be more Hinoiri's speed, just a little bit. When Hinoiri does, in fact, share some more tidbits about life in KiraKiraFantastica, and its varied forms, shge can see her just staring at her with an expression that must surely be described as a series of increasingly bewildered 'what the hell' expressions.

"... the fuck," she finally says.