597/Questions

Questions
Date of Scene:	15 October 2023
Location:	Mitakihara General Hospital
Synopsis:	Amy Faust has questions for Hematite and Sailor Moon.
Cast of Characters:	Mamoru Chiba, Amanda Faust, Usagi Tsukino, Pyrite

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Mamoru Chiba has posed:
People are still being evacuated, and Pyrite has vanished into Hematite's shadow, and Hematite's taken Sailor Moon's hand and squeezed it, and then he sits on the edge of the stage and raises his eyebrows at Amy. "So you know -- I'm still on the bad guys' team. We'll probably fight at some point, and not side-by-side. What were you trying to ask earlier? Here, and at the doll shop?"

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy poofs away her weapon, then sits on the stage too, then decides to move to a front-row seat instead. "Wait, you're a bad guy?" She blinks. "Well. Your sister's in trouble, and if Sailor Moon's helping you this probably isn't some weird trick, so..."

    "The doll shop. That all really happened, huh? Or we had the same dream, or something? I..." She furrows her brow in thought. "What I was asking at the doll shop didn't make sense. I was... dreaming, or something. ...Thought I'd gone to the afterlife, but I didn't remember how. Dream logic. And then you said you, who weren't dead -- I somehow knew that -- had come to look for your sister, and like... *oof*, you know? I just figured, hey, even if *I'm* dead, I can still help you find your ghost sister, maybe you can even sneak her back into the living world!"

    She smiles and rubs the back of her head. "Dream logic, right? It made sense at the time."

    She crosses her legs, and arms, then uncrosses her arms. "And now, I hear someone's in need of a body. I... I want to help with that. Even if you're a villain. Even if your sister's a villain. Someone shouldn't... they shouldn't have to..." She looks away, trying to put words together, then back at him. "If... if someone needs a body, I'm not gonna *not* help them. What if it was me, huh? I can't just... leave someone like that. A talking animal came to me, and I gotta pay it forward to whoever I can."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon takes her seat, which is of course, right besides Hematite, looking at Amy, sitting cross-legged. She's a little annoyed - not at either of them - but she's been keeping this all a little secret, given their allegiances, and also the recent issue with the Outers. Not very, considering she'd already said no one was allowed to kill Hematite, but -

"He's a bad guy. This isn't a trick. You can't assume you can trust him in other things." She says them like stock phrases, matter of fact. "But he doesn't lie about that, so, you know."

No, Amy probably doesn't know. Usagi isn't going to elaborate. "I wasn't there, last time though. With the dollhouse. And when I did see something, before, it wasn't like a dream. So this is a little... more than I'm used to."

She's not going to address the stuff about a body - about Himeko's body. It's not her business to share, and it's sensitive, and she doesn't know what Amy can do to help, given that they need a miracle, and the miracle is currently hidden away somewhere.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Hematite leans slightly into Sailor Moon, bumping her gently as if to say 'I'm here, I'm sorry, but at least I'm here'. He listens to Amy's questions, then to Usagi's answers, and then he looks at the floor between them and Amy for a second before lifting his head once more.

"She's been dead longer than I've been alive," the boy says frankly. "And there's a miracle out there for her, but creating a body isn't the way to do it. What's happening-- it isn't right, isn't good, and won't work. I appreciate you wanting to help, but her problem really is a family thing to solve. The part where people are being terrorized by whatever is trying to get a body together-- that, yes, please help stop that wherever it crops up, and remember to breathe. Also, if you want to help the people who have been terrorized, you'd be a much better grief counselor than I am, and there's a butcher in Akihabara who desperately needs someone to talk to about dreams of his daughter and bone ghosts. We had to take away what he thought was his chance of seeing his daughter again."

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Remember to breathe. Amy is now breathing manually, as the end of the 'dream' flashes through her head again, she holds a hand to the center of the chest, then looks down at it as if confirming the lack of doll joints.

    She nods solemnly as things are explained, although... "I'm not sure I'm a grief counselor, exactly, but uh... I'll do what I can."

    She lifts her eyes to look back up at him, then at Usagi. "I wish you good luck. Both of you. All three of you." She looks at where Pyrite was standing on the stage. "All... four of you?" She's uncertain.

    "Anyway. I still... If you ever *do* need help, and others... if you have trouble finding help because of what you're trying to do... Dream-me was earnest. I'm not ideologically opposed to this."

    She stands up and holds out a hand to shake. "May you find your miracle."

Usagi Tsukino has posed:
Sailor Moon leans against Hematite in turn, as if to say - why are you sorry? It's fine, because it's you.

It is fine, because it's him. This is how things are. This is how it is. He's their enemy, for now, but not hers, and this problem isn't the result of the enemy. It's a family affair.

"We're working on it. The miracle. Whatever else is going on - we'll get that sorted. But... it's good to know that you'll help, if she needs more than we've got. And today, it was definitely a good help!"

The handshake, she'll leave for Hematite.

Mamoru Chiba has posed:
Hematite leans forward to shake Amy's hand, too, and his hand is warm and dry and doesn't seem villainous, but most of what he presents doesn't. "Yeah-- we'll take you up on that if it comes down to it," he says firmly, "and thank you. I definitely believe we will."

Pyrite has posed:
    From the depths of Hematite's shadow, a golden shard of something much larger pulses like a heartbeat in the darkness.

Amanda Faust has posed:
    Amy smiles up at him. It feels a *little* intimidating, someone who is an alleged enemy being this big, and this close, but... she tries to ignore that feeling for now. She shakes his hand and nods, and then nods to Sailor Moon. "Well. I suppose I should get going then. I'll see you around." And she makes her way out of sight to de-transform, before texting the hero club that she's okay.