Scene #2298: Giant Ice Cream Party

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Laura La Mer	It's a pleasant afternoon at the Botanical Gardens. The air is fresh with the smell of grass and flowers and the sun's rays peek through the clouds, casting a golden sheen on the stony paths among the greenery and providing some warmth to an otherwise chilly day. Resting on round stones, open ice cream boxes await, freshly bought off of the Ice Cream Parlor, and a few steps away from them two figures and one object stay still, a pinkette with a blue shirt and a star motif, a white skirt, and blue shoes with slouchy white socks, a pink seal with heart ears and tailfin, and blue bottle with a see-through window. She will have sent a message to Amy and Tsubasa explaining they are having a part 2 to yesterday's victory party, while Hinoiri will have been told that Laura has found some great shots at the Botanical Gardens that she thinks will go great as paintings. However, that had gotten into the background of her attention, and she is currently staring at a curious mallet laying flat on the ground, one hand holding her chin, and the corresponding elbow resting on the hand of the other arm, which lies parallel to her torso.
Amy Faust	Amy's been thinking about some of the less pleasant things going on lately, when Laura's message arrives to brighten her day! Victory party? Hell yeah, and it'll be good to see how Hinoiri's doing now that she's a Cure after so long! The redhead arrives in her winter coat, and smiles and waves, "Hey Laura! Hey Kururun! Whatcha... lookin' at?" She looks at the weird mallet, and tries to pick it up for a closer look. "It's not a croquet mallet... It makes me think of like... if you saw someone doing really old-fashioned carpentry in a cartoon or something. What's this symbol on the side...?" Realization flashes across her face. "Ooh, maybe it's someone's cosplay prop?? But how would it get left behind..." She looks around, as if a cosplayer might come running up right then to ask if anyone's seen their hammer.
Cure Wing	It's not just that Tsubasa and Laura are both Precures. They're also classmates. So he tries his best to support her whenever he can. While his own team is back in his hometown, he's been cheering on Laura to find her team and friends. And is very excited that she finally found one! Dressed warmly, because it's still winter, when the brunette spies the pinkette, he lifts his hand in a wave. "Hii!" he calls out as he jogs his way over, pausing once he gets there, because a bird chirp got his attention. Turning to it, after a short conversation, he moves his foot, exposing a smashed piece of bread. "Sorry!" comes his quick apology, a bow of his head as he turns to join the others. "I'm here!"
Hinoiri Kirara	Hinoiri Kirara was a pretty cure! Was a pretty cure! Rah rah! Pretty cure! She didn't know if they had a theme song but if they did, she'd probably hum it! My pretty cure, I used to wonder where I could punch my first, my pretty cure, until I got this toy a mermaid and some bling! ... Okay, so it needed work. The important thing was she was excited and mad magic powers now! And had polished her tropical pact like... seventy five times. She was happy. And when Laura called her, she was more than happy to say she'd be on her way. Heck, she'd draw that little raggamuffin herself if she wanted at this point. She was a pretty currrrrre! "Heyyyy!" she called as she came running up the stairs, wearing her sunglasses again. Why? Because she kept getting flashed by the sun, and it was sunny. Wearing a non-black jacket for once, pink gloves and pants. It was looking like a cold one, admittedly. Of course, when she arrived, they were... hanging out with a hammer? "Soooo... what's going on?" she asked. Then she chuckled. "You know, if you're not sure who's that is, we can swing by the lost and found and drop it off. Someone probably... wait..." She trailed off when she saw the sticker on the side of it, her eyes narrowing. "I've... seen that symbol. Where did I..." She rubbed her chin, looking confused. Something about it seemed... familiar. Was it one of the kids in class? No... a company? No... maybe an art group? Huh... She pulled out her sketch pad and started copying it. "Where... have I seen this? I know... I... it's not Kirakirafantastician..."
Chiyo Sakai	Chiyo Sakai wasn't here for a party per say. Or at least she hadn't been informed of one. It was just a visit to the gardens on her own when she had seen a few familiar faces loitering around a certain area which piqued her curiosity. Unbidden, she strides that way to join those already here with a look of curiosity easily read upon her face. "I didn't realize the botanical garden was such a hot hangout spot," she remarks by way of greeting as a smile is flashed to Amy, Laura, and... and Hinoiri even, in spite of their sometimes shaky past. As she draws closer though it's obvious her gaze shifts to the hammer that had been found. She KNEW hammers. She worked with them, fought with them, and that... "That's definitely not a prop but it does look like the older sort Ojiisan might have in the shed," she begins only to pause as talk of a symbol is mentioned. Her hands jam down into the pockets of her coat to wiggle deep into the warmth it offered as she suggests, "... Maybe we shouldn't be touching it?"
Laura La Mer	"Amy-chan, sup", Laura greets the redhead, her mind still stuck contemplating, and the seal fairy adds her own greeting as well, decidedly the less stumped of the two. "I don't really know, Kururun and I have been talking about it, but no dice between the two of us, and the Gardens haven't been very useful either." Then she extends her arm to emphasize the empty park. Really, she did not expect such a mystery for her party. Why can't people be more useful with their stuff? "Hi, Tsubasa-kun", Laura smiles at the arrival of the boy, while Kururun waves in response. "You haven't seen a person looking for an object while coming here, have you?" And then the girl of the moment arrives, naturally still under her game of pretense. "Heh, Hinoiri-chan, you thought this was a painting opportunity, but you have fallen into my trap. This is another celebration for yesterday! With ice cream!" ... "That was the plan at least, but then this mallet was there, and we have been trying to solve the situation first", Laura explains to the other Tropical Cure. She raises an eyebrow. "I see...? You sure you can't remember where you have seen it?" Then there is a newcomer, a purple-haired girl she did meet already. "Hello, Chiyo-san, correct? Welcome to Hinoiri's Graduation Party, where she is now a full-fledged Tropical Cure. Feel free to stay and eat the ice cream", Laura promptly invites her. "We were thinking of how to return it, to be honest." Meanwhile Kururun approaches Amy looking at the mallet, looking at the mallet with curiosity. "Kururun?" she asks the Puella. "That means she wants to hold it, Amy-chan", Laura quickly interprets for her.
Amy Faust	Amy smiles as she sees Hinoiri, and waves! "Hey, Hinoiri!" She nods at Chiyo commenting on the look of the hammer, and then Hinoiri says she recognizes the symbol, and Amy holds it out for her to look at. "Not KiraKiraFantastican? ...Was that a possibility??? Is stuff from there here?" She looks a bit confused at the ''seal'' wanting a hammer, but... okay. She holds it out to the fairy, wondering what Kururun wants with it.
Cure Wing	"Someone looking for that?" Tsubasa asks in confusion, shaking his head. "No, but I can ask the birds if they have?" he suggests with a small little smile. Most people usually start laughing when he suggests talking to birds, after all. With Chiyo's arrival, he offers a small wave, "Hi." he greets. "I'm Tsubasa Yuunagi, grade 7 and classmates with Laura-chan." he offers in way of introduction. No mention of his other identity, he's still getting used to well... being around others. "How does it feel, now that you have your compact, Hinoiri?" he asks the new Tropical Cure.
Hinoiri Kirara	Hinoiri Kirara blinked a few times and stared at Laura. Then... Then slowly, she grinned and reached out, patting her on the head. "Awww, aren't you the sweetest? And clever, too. I never would have seen such a stunning trap. I truly am humbled to be in the presence of such a clever master of espionage as yourself." She then glanced back to the hammer. It... She KNEW she'd seen that somewhere before. "Hey, Sakai-san. Uhhhhh... guess who got powers again? For real, this time. Heh. Turns out I resonate with mermaids." She then glanced towards Tsubasa and gave a little sqwee, the grin on her face massive. "It is amazing. This magic is so cool. It doesn't hurt or anything, it's strong, it feels right, it's like, amaz--" And then she stopped, her eyes going wide when she looked down at her little doodle of the symbol. And turned it around. And paled. Then looked to the hammer in Pururun's little flipper? "W-wait. I think I know where that symbol's from! Careful with that!"
Chiyo Sakai	Chiyo Sakai dips her head toward Laura as everything is explained about the gathering. "Ah, thank you," she remarks, looking toward the icecream only breifly. Tsubasa's greeting is returned as well. "Chiyo Sakai, grade 10. I think we crossed paths a few times before, breifly." She was fairly certain at least that she'd seen the bright-haired boy. "Congratulations Hinoiri. Don't mess it up this time." It's a bit curt, but there's a softer edge to the words. She's teasing and smiling as she does. For a moment she seems about to say something else before thinking better of it with a slight shake of her head. This was Hinoiri's reveal party after all! "Be careful of any mirrors though. Mirage's minions like to capture Precures with them."
Laura La Mer	"Don't worry about it, Chiyo-san", Laura replies confidently. "The Pretty Cure Hunter got nothing on us. You should have seen how we all taught a lesson to yesterday's Layabout. The pinkette blushes when Hinoiri pats her on the head. Not like anyone has done it before for her. Is she being patronised? Or is this just what Hinoiri is like? Must be the latter, of course. Why would her new teammate not mean the praise? For her, to boot. "I know, I know, you can say it twice. So any flavour you are feeling like today? I got a lot of variations." Meanwhile, Kururun yells excitedly when Amy does offer the mallet to the seal. They certainly exhude joy at the thought of holding it. Maybe she has taken it for a toy? Whatever the case, the fairy floats up and gets it from Amy's hand, swinging it around with reckless abandon. "Hey, Kururun", Laura starts approaching and reproaching the fairy. "Be more careful with that, you are going to hurt someone." Right thought process for Laura, too bad it did not occur to her that coming closer to a mallet moving around like that is quite the wrong move. Which naturally ends up whacking Laura right in the face. "Ugh", she groans putting a hand on her face. "See, Kururun? Hinoiri told you to be careful too. Give it-" The mermaid's words never reach the end, interrupted by an extremely bright flash that cancels out everything else. When everyone's sight returns, the world has changed drastically, with huge orderly cracks in the stony ground, and the greenery much farther than it had been before. Roughly 350 feet away from their perspective. Above them, a gigantic Kururun floats about 500 feets in the air. "Kururun?" she asks with a distorted, booming and weirdly slow noise, looking around and sitting on a rock at the edge of the path.
Amy Faust	Chiyo warns about mirrors and Amy looks at her wide-eyed. "Wait, ''any'' mirrors?! I thought they had to call them out of the shield thing!" Hinoiri recognizes the symbol. "Wait, don't swing that!" Amy holds a hand out towards Kururun, but it's too late. While blinded, she replies to Hinoiri, "And that's why you don't say 'you need to see this, Captain!' Lead with 'It's magic, don't touch!'" And then her sight returns. They're in an alien, stony landscape, "Where are we?" ...and daikaiju kururun floats above oh gods they've been shrunk. And not like 'Oh cool everything is so big I can't wait to have a giant icecream' shrunk, but 'you might lose a fight to an insect and small animals will see you as prey' shrunk. ''Honey I Shrunk the Kids'' shrunk! "Oh no." Amy glances down at her hands, down at the ground, she looks around for Hinoiri, "How do we reverse this?!" she asks in alarm, then hopefully, "I don't suppose it'll wear off on its own? Do we need to get Kururun to reverse it?" Amy looks up at Kururun. "She can't even see us..."
Hinoiri Kirara	Hinoiri Kirara was... well. Wasn't being patronizing. But was enjoying how excited the mermaid was. So she wasn't wrong about it. Though... "Eh. I worked with Phantom in the past. He's... well. I could probably take him. But I don't intend to test it, either. Pride cometh before the sparkles put an imprint of their foot on your flank." Besides, if she beat Phantom, he'd just dusk port off and flee. If he beat her, she'd get mirrored. No thank you. "I won't mess it up this time. I've learned my lesson, for real this time." However, as the hammer gets waved about, she squeaked. "Careful! I think that symbol is Majorina's! If it--" And too late. Laura was hit. And... Nothing happened. "Oh. Maybe not. I guess--" AND THEN SOMETHING HAPPENED! A moment later, Hinoiri was staring up at... a massive Kururun, many stories in the air. "Huh. So... it enlarged him?" she asked. "That's going to be hard to hi--" And then? Then she realized... they were tiny. And... "Oh... buck. Okay. Nobody panic." She pulled out her phone and... "No... signal... buck," she said again, hanging her head. "Of course. Ugh. It's like 'Teensy magics 101' all over ahead... And I have no idea," she said to Amy. "I'd need to study it to find out and ummmmm... the hammer is... over there." "... Buck."
Chiyo Sakai	"Not all mirrors," Chiyo supplies to Amy with a shake of her head at the incorrect assumption. "I just meant in a fight... Oh, and Phantom has 'retired'," she explains as well to Hinoiri. At least she'd begun to but that flash of light has her raising her hand to cover her eyes breifly with a grimace. The sound of the others starting to become concerned urges her to draw her hand away again blinking quickly to rid her eyes of the dots of light still there. "What ... Oh no." Her head tips back to peer up toward the fairy with a growing frown. "I think I saw this movie once in 'Foreign film studies'. Uh. We may want to watch out for bugs, if I remember?" Pausing she considers before saying, "I could tell Reshbal to tell the other drivers something is wrong, maybe."
Laura La Mer	The world turns blank, and then from blank to colourful again, and then the alien landscape gets confusing thanks to the booming sound. "Arghh, what was that?", Laura covers her ears, not even looking up, kept to a standstill by the loud noise. "Where even are we?" she asks turning her head around until her sight falls on the resting Kururun all that distance away. "Isn't she a bit too big for someone that far?" Much like Amy, Laura reaches the conclusion they are much smaller, and she grins nervously. "Well, I see, that's quite the mallet..." She sighs, and puts a hand in her hair. "This is enough for the day, I am going to enter the Aqua Pot", she moves it inside in search of the bottle. "Why isn't it... there?", she starts asking, her eyes widening as she speaks, looking at the 30 feet tall bottle, not too far from where Kururun is, relatively speaking. "I left there... I left it there! Why was I so stupid!? Had I still gotten it, I wouldn't have to walk around", she grips her hair frustrated. "I think she was asking where we were", Laura agrees with Amy, even if between the booming noise and the fairy's dialect, she wasn't completely sure. "Would explain why she decided to sit there", the mermaid grumbles. "But it still gives us a chance, we just need to reach Kururun and catch her attention somehow. Let's not waste time!" Laura gets into a sprint. Then she gets to a stop after about 1/20 of that, gazing at a lake of shining water. "What are we looking at now?" In the meantime, Chiyo trying to contact the other Drivers will only net her the discovery the communication isn't quite working right.
Amy Faust	"Teensy magics 101? Did you take a class in this?" She looks for the hammer. "''Can'' you study it, like this, if we can get to it?" She nods to Chiyo, "Yeah, 'Honey I Shrunk the Kids... a classic." She looks around. "Not sure how helpful it is to our present situation... I kept meaning to watch that China animation but never got around to it... saw Arriety the Borrower too, but those are... considerably larger than our situation, I think. Honestly Honey I Shrunk the Kids is probably more helpful." Amy blinks at Laura. "You can understand her? Uh..." She walks after Laura to look at the... puddle? "I think I can shoot up a flare to get her to look this way. Are we sure she'll be able to see us when we're this small, uh..." She has a vision of giant Kururun landing on the puddle, washing them all away in a wave and then flattening them as she looks around for the source of the light. "I'm not sure I uh... want her splashing around or landing on us, you know...?"
Hinoiri Kirara	Hinoiri Kirara stared at the distance between the two of them and... this... Last time she'd been anywhere near this small she'd at least been an alicorn. And bigger, still. On the other hand, at least nothing was going to try and kidnap her. ... Probably. Oh, if Riventon tried to put her in a glass bottle or something she would actually kill him. She might kill him anyway if he ever found out, though. She started walking, following behind Laura. "We've got a long, long way to go, Laura. Don't over exert yourself. Just... pretend it's like going through the dragon lands. Without magic. Going towards... a really, really big dragon. Okay, it's nothing like that." "But yeah, size changing magic is a thing, very useful for some jobs. Be useful about now, honestly. Is... it a puddle? Or... How deep is it? Laura, can you turn into a mermaid like this?" "... I don't know if we could make the world's smallest boat..."
Laura La Mer	Laura stares surprised at Amy. "Why do humans have so many movies about shrinking? What's the appeal of imagining this?" she asks the redhead. She can't even say it's providing them any advantage, unless human movies has some miraculous quality she just doesn't know about. "Of course I can translate Kururun, why I would I not? That's why I told you to pass her the mallet, it's what she wanted." How does she regrets that now. "The pond looks deep enough for me to swim in it. Even if I am not sure at the thought of swimming in a pond." She shakes her head. That really doesn't sound as nice as swimming in the sea. Laura considers Amy's proposal. It might work, but the redhead is right about the risks. "Let's just not", she turns a bit paler. "I think there is a safer way we can do that. I don't want to spend my last moments like an ant." She doesn't want to think about gigantic dragons of Kururun's dimensions either, even if Hinoiri has a point. "I will pace myself", Laura resigns herself to agreeing. "Of course I can turn into a mermaid, why would I not? I can carry you or Amy on my back, but there is no way I can carry both of you. We will still need to find an alternative method." There has to be a leaf or something around, right? "Let's search for something, and Amy-chan can ride on me while you use the leaf, Hinoiri-chan", she decides, stepping away to find one. "Once you are on the leaf, I can start pushing it, or you can use a stick." She would prefer the latter, but they might have to make do.
Amy Faust	Amy listens as Hinoiri compares this to a trek 'through the dragon lands, without magic'. Concerning! Size changing magic being useful... Amy nods and smiles, "Oh yeah, like, it already helps being small with small hands" She holds out her hands "for changing out computer parts and stuff but I could see being a ''biit'' smaller -- than we normally are, I mean -- helping with some trouble spots. ...There was a webcomic where that came up, actually." For once it's not El Goonish Shive! She's thinking of The Wotch! Laura asks why there are so many movies about Shrinking. "Huh? That's like... Two, and an animation short I think. Oh wait three there was uh, the one where to save money on living expenses people get shrunk down and live in tiny apartments!" Amy holds a hand to her chin thoughtfully. "I guess it's not uncommon in videogames, actually. There being a level where you're extra small, or shrinking as a way to get through tiny passages... there was that one indy game where you're a shrinking chemist who has to mix the antidote before you shrink too far to reach anything. Oh!" She snaps her fingers and points. "And the Midge Mallet in Secret of Mana! And the Minish Cap in the Legend of Zelda game of that name, of course... Midge mallet..." She looks to Hinoiri, "Did you say this belonged to a 'Midge'? Who is she?" Laura is offering to swim them across. "Uhhh... Damn, yeah, I can also try flying but that might attract more predators..." She shivers. But also decides to check if she ''can'' still transform, like this, before looking for a leaf.
Hinoiri Kirara	Hinoiri Kirara shook her head. "I mean... we could try going around? Maybe? How..." Then trailed off when she looked to the side. Oh. That could take... "Right. Leaf. Maybe a leaf. Just... let's find a leaf. Or a clover. Heh. But let's stick together. The last thing we need is someone getting lost. I don't want anyone to... heh... get leaf'd behind." Yes. She did make a pun. In a weird way, Hinoiri felt like she was in her jam. Weird magic things, strange experiences, adventure? This stuff was fun! And there were a lot of them, between the whole group... "No need to carry us. Like... better to just find a leaf for all of us, then have you able to uhhhh... go... and mermaid save us if any of us fall out or something..." She then slowly looked to Amy as the girl just... announced... every shrinking/growing media she could think of. Holy... This girl... Really was a whole library of videos, wasn't she? It was kind of impressive.
Laura La Mer	"I think we are small enough as is, and nobody is asking to find computer parts, regardless", Laura frowns lightly while replying to Amy. "You really are unflappable by the most curious things sometimes", she considers while going around with them to find this salvific leaf and a stick. And that feeling only grows when Amy shows off what Laura feels must be just about everything the human world has to offer. She is not sure to be scared or impressive. "I can do that easily though, I have carried Usagi-chan already, so I doesn't see the problem now." All the more so since it was Hinoiri's idea to know whether she could still turn into a mermaid. Yet now the unicorn wants to reserve it for the absolutely last moment. Why? What's so special about that? They wouldn't even be separated like she fears. All of these doubts course through her mind while they keep up the search. It's a bit worrying that no matter where they go, there is more of the pond still. "I think she said Majorina, not Midge", Laura addresses Amy as the three of them find both leaf and stick, and then they make a weird boat. "At least it holds", Laura tries it out, and when they are all on it, away they go through the pond, until the other side is reached. Kururun is still close and so far away, when they step off the boat, and the fairy decidedly looks more restless and worried while the time passes and passes.
Amy Faust	Amy smiles at Hinoiri's pun, then facepalms at Laura's 'small enough as it is' comment. "No I meant how big I ''normally'' am! Like, it's easier to reach into cramped computers cases than when I was bigger, but like, it ''could'' be easier..." She shakes her head. "And yeah, we ''gotta'' stick together. Phones aren't working, our voices will get drowned out by a light breeze..." Amy shivers. "One of us could, could fall between paving stones or, or into an anthill or something and never be found..." She moves a bit closer to the others as they look for a leaf. Amy would absolutely understand feeling like this is one's jam! That's how she feels dealing with Veronicat. On the boat, Amy looks out over the lake-size puddle with wide eyes. "You know. I read someone writing about the original tale of Thumbelina the other day." She lays back on the leaf for a moment, looking up at the sky. "And so I looked it up and I thought, huh, this is actually kind of a mood. There's... there's a lot of people in the story messing with her, tanking her self-worth and then making her so used to obeying their authority she daren't go against them when she gets her first chance at a better life, and I thought, ''damn'', I didn't expect this story to be such a childhood ''mood'', you know?" She sits up. Like, freaking 'Thumbelina' of all things. Shame it ends in comphet." Beat. Amy looks out over the water again. "Anyway yeah feeling for that story's a little cursed now. There's a bit where she's stuck drifting on a leaf down a river lost in a terrifyingly big world and I thought, geeze, okay, at her size it ''would'' be scary actually and well." Amy gestures out at the water. ''"Yeah."'' She breathes a sigh of relief... or perhaps deleaf? When they step onto dry land once again. "So, who's this Majorina, anyway?"
Hinoiri Kirara	Hinoiri Kirara was more than happy to help as they all looked for a leaf. Good side of it? Even as small as they were, it didn't seem to be too heavy. "Majorina. She's a witch of Obsidian. A very powerful one. Something to do with fairytales? I don't know, but she wasn't human. Most the people there ARE human, she wasn't, it was nice." Of course, as they went on the water and started going, as Amy talked about Thumbelina, well... Hinoiri couldn't help but chuckle. "Really? I don't know. I mean, sure, it's kind of scary. But isn't it exciting? This is a side of the world nobody else ever sees. It's a whole new world, everything we've ever known, but in a new way. And... yeah. It's dangerous. But if you spend your whole life only focusing on what's 'safe', you'll miss out on so, so much wonder and excitement in the world." "Everything can be scary if you look at it the wrong way. But there's a lot of magic to it, things we're seeing now, perspectives that nobody else could even imagine. How is that not the coolest thing ever?" It was moments like this that it was likely pretty clear why she was willing to step through that portal into this world, once she felt she had nothing left. Of course, on the other side? With Kururun so far away still? "Oh... this is, however, going to be quite the journey still. Maybe... we should... huh... Oh. Welp. I mean, at least we get to do this with friends, right? So no getting lost for any of us, promise," she said, giving them both a confident grin before she headed on ahead. ... Admittedly, she was starting to feel a bit nervous about all of this... Surely she could... somehow... figure out how to reverse the spell, right? ... She hoped.
Laura La Mer	"I was only planning to turn into a mermaid and be there", Laura tells Amy, pointing right next to the leaf boat behind them when the previous subject turns into being at different places on dry land. "I wasn't going to go anywhere on my own, and certainly not carrying you away from Hinoiri. This was only about having a more stable navigation. And Usagi was even happy to be offered a lift on my back, anyway", the pinkette tilts her head a bit confused by the tangent. But she should probably put that behind herself now, just as they are about to do with the boat. Can they still reach Kururun in time though? They are near a grassy patch now, on their left, but the fairy still feels so far away, and the day is getting old fast. "I don't really know about any of that: if I had been in it, I would have shown them about trying to give ''me'' orders", Laura shakes her head at Amy's summary. "They probably wouldn't have had the time to know just what is it they did wrong before they got the consequences of their actions." Laura starts walking towards Kururun as Amy and Hinoiri do, the noise of the grassland making itself known a bit loudly, reminding her of Amy's talk about flying attracting a predator. "It's an interesting experience, just don't let your guard down. We don't have much time now anyway", she looks at the sun in the sky. "There are some nice sights here, I suppose. It would be a great time to take bubble photos if I had my Aqua Pot with me. I suppose I can make do with my phone, but it's not quite the same thing", Laura considers to Hinoiri. But the situation changes before any of them has even gotten close to Kururun. The fairy's voice booms again, the same question from earlier, and then she belly-flops into the Aqua Pot with the mallet, leaving the three girls to watch the takeoff that for their size is quite loud with the air displaced. "What are you doing, Kururun?", Laura asks with a shaking voice, the gravity of their situation hitting her. "We are here! We haven't gone anywhere!" she shouts in vain. The pinkette turns to the other two, her expression saying a lot before she speaks. "What are we going to do now? We don't even have a refuge." She eyes the vegetation. They could make one, but would it be good enough?
Amy Faust	Amy blinks at Hinoiri as the unicorn-turned-human gushes about the experience the same way Amy would be if they were a few inches taller. And... Seeing that enthusiasm... Amy can't help but smile. It's not ''that'' far of a leap to that mood. Only a few inches... even if that seems like a huge leap, right now. Amanda smiles. "You get it. ''You get it.'' This is a bit much for me, but you ''get it.''" She hugs Hinoiri. "I think most folks think I'm a bit crazy for thinking that way, when we get turned into toys or whatever... But you ''get it!''" She smiles wider, hugs tightly. "It's nice to meet another who does." She lets go and steps back, "And, even if this time it ''is''a little scary, I'm together with friends!" Mood buoyed, she goes to gather a little water droplet in her hands, "Look, look! The surface tension is keeping it round! This is ''wild''!" And she runs over to touch one of the blades of the grass forest, just to see what it feels like. Her attention is pulled back by Kururun disappearing. "Wait, what? Where did she go? ...Into the Aqua Pot? Will it just keep floating? If not, and we could get inside..."
Hinoiri Kirara	Hinoiri Kirara blinked in confusion when Amy hugged her, however... when she saw the other girl running off, enjoying herself, losing herself in the moment, well... it was nice. Made her own little weirdness feel better. ... And then Kururun abandons them. There was a moment of pure, unrelenting rage. She was considering making a seal-fairy-skin jacket! But... that was suppressed quickly. "Well then. That makes things... a little more difficult. HOWEVER! We're going to be fine," she said. "Let's setup camp. We may be small, but that doesn't mean we're helpless. We'll need to setup some shelter so we don't get hurt, then we'll need to leave a message for Kururun. Or any sparkle who comes by the area. If one of them see it, they'll be bound to help us out. I have fought sparkles way too many times to believe for even a moment we're in that much trouble. There's probably three or four of them on the way already to help us out." She then blinked and snorted. "Actually, there probably are. Wow. I half expect one to just... pop up. Besides, maybe Kururun ran off to get help. You said there's another pretty cure, right Laura? Maybe he'll get her and she can help us out. If she comes here, she'll probably be able to help locate us. Especially if we make a fire or a camp or something." She really hoped sounding confident would help the others feel as confident as she wished she felt about the situation.
Laura La Mer	"Oh, yeah, she is Sharon", Laura replies, watching Amy hug it out with Hinoiri, before stepping besides the two and squeezing all three of them together as she adds herself to the hug. "Thought you could leave me out, could you? Too bad, you will have to bear with me" she laughs in a way that undermines the faux seriousness of her words. She doesn't know the first thing about camping though, beyond the definition of it she has learnt here. Even when she does expeditions out of Grand Ocean, there isn't exactly a need to cover yourself from the elements, and the animals... she speaks to those normally. "I will be in your care this time on building a camp", she tells the two. "It will actually be my first one, and I want to enjoy this experience as well." Just as she says that, a small (aka very small, in the matter of things) droplet of water falls on her head from a blade of water above. Should she treat that as part of the experience too?