820/We Ended Up Fine Ultimately

We Ended Up Fine Ultimately
Date of Scene:	17 October 2023
Location:	Tsukino-Osaka Dorm
Synopsis:	Naru is Not Dead Yet. Kazuo has emu feathers. This makes sense, honestly. Somehow.
Cast of Characters:	Naru Osaka, Kazuo Saitou

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Naru Osaka has posed:
Txt Naru to Kazuo: Not dead yet. (I broke rule #1)

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
TXT Kazuo to Naru: Also not dead yet. I have a minor sample for you. If you're not in the hospital?

Naru Osaka has posed:
TXT Naru to Kazuo: Nope. You feel (mostly) better pretty much right away once you have your soul back. What sort of sample? Meet for Coffee?

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
TXT Kazuo to Naru: Feathers. That no longer drain energy. They may now be just feathers, don't know.

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
TXT Kazuo to Naru: There was an Emucident. Which means oh god coffee yes

Naru Osaka has posed:
Txt Naru to Kazuo: What were the feathers on that drained energy? An EMU!? Those things are huge! Coffee for sure. See you soon.

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
TXT Kazuo to Naru, in an afterthought of clarification: Your place or somewhere else?

Naru Osaka has posed:
TXT Naru to Kazuo: If you have stuff for me, might as well come here.

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
... it's about ten minutes before a light tap on the door heralds a Kazuo, with a folded-over shopping bag and a couple of bags of lychee hard candy. Both of these things are presented to Naru with a little bow.

Naru Osaka has posed:
Ten minutes that lets Naru put the kettle on and get a couple of coffees going. The temptation to upgrade her own coffee set up is strong, but there's something to be said for the excuse to go visiting espresso machines and their owners now and then.

Naru opens the door just as the kettle makes itself known, smiling. "Morning. C'mon in." She accepts the bags with a little return of a bow. "Coffee, or would you prefer tea?" There's no question about which she would prefer, that's for certain.

"So when did you meet the Emu?" Naru asks as she heads back towards the little coffee set up, to be able to get the hot beverages going, setting down the bags on the table on the way.

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
"You are blessed and a giver of blessings for having coffee," Kazuo replies.

The Emu's date, time, and physical street address are recited duly. Juuban. "Hematite wrangling the thing, Zoisite and Pyrite bystanding. Two magical girls I don't know, one monkey-themed right up to the expanding staff, one alternating between wings and a blur. Also, Makoto Kino noticed it, who I think you've met? She helped keep idiots from getting in the way trying to get video. When did you get shot?"

Naru Osaka has posed:
Coffee for both of them and a warm mug is passed over to Kazuo. "Milk is in the fridge if you want some." Apparently Naru is going without today.

"I have met Makoto.. and I'm not recognizing either of the others by that description." She considers a moment or two longer and then shakes her head a little. "Never mind. I might know them, I might not."

A sip of her coffee first as Naru returns back to where she left the bags. "Last night after clubs. I wasn't the target, but I got in the way of La Crima shooting the target by accident. Probably better me than the poor mundane student."

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
Kazuo is going without forever. "Thanks," he says, folding the mug in both hands and actually taking a swallow instead of just soaking up the heat.

Possibly he is actually worried about Naru.

"I'm not sure I'm going to vote 'better' either way on that one. I am glad you feel better. And have proof that you have a soul, I guess, though that's stretching for a silver lining."

Naru Osaka has posed:
"I mean.. I ended up fine ultimately." Naru points out. "And by not being fine for a little while, I got a lot of information about exactly how it feels. Which is good data."

Naru quirks a half smile. "I should be sure to check with Usagi about exactly what it looked like too. So far I've got one outlier on configuration, and I want to see if I'm part of the what seems to be the normal configuration, or joining the outlier."

Naru sips from her own coffee a little more. "At least you really are out utterly while it's not there. I think I'm grateful for that."

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
"Configuration of the g- oh. Oh." Kazuo looks like he really wanted to invoke deity again on that one. Instead? Coffee. Coffee will cure all ills if he has to force it to do so with his bare hands.

"I think I'm grateful for that too," he says slowly. "And I think - I was wondering if we might be able to use those things to help the Ites. You just made me realize that that would be a terrible idea. Thank you."

Naru Osaka has posed:
"So.. generally, yes. Bad idea." Naru agrees there, having been distracted by the conversation and coffee into leaving the bag closed for the moment. Both feathers and candy. Clearly she is not Usagi.

"It's unclear exactly how long having the crystal out goes fataly bad, but it goes fatally bad at some point, and that point is measured in hours. Possibly as little as one hour, but I expect there's wiggle room that I dont want to explore on that." Naru is as matter of fact about the horrors of it all as she is about everything else. "That being said.. it does knock 'em flat, and at least in one case, I held the crystal safe while we purified the snot out of it before putting it back. Generally if someone is chock full of dark energy, doing a bit of clean up when it doesn't hurt like stupid isn't the worst plan in the world. Temporary measure, but still."

Kazuo Saitou has posed:
"Those are both good things to know," Kazuo agrees. Then adds, "Sorry." A little toss of his head, half-apologetic somehow. "My brain just writes horror movie scripts and thinks it's being helpful."

He exhales, and then adds, "Not much risk from the Emu, even given it was twice my height when it pulled up straight and had two sets of beaks. Those things mostly kick with a claw, and Hematite left the claw off on this one. The feathers drained energy, but only enough to make the victims cranky and tired. Definitely phoning that one in to meet quota. The interesting thing was Zoisite. He was under the influence of something, and it wasn't a demon. Wonder if that's the way he tries to sabotage himself."