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[incandescentfaith]

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Voice; UN: Cuddlebunny

[lightthedarkness]

R-Rei-chan, are you busy?

UN: Hino

[incandescentfaith]

Not at the moment. What's wrong?

[Please, please don't have sprouted Beast parts...]

[lightthedarkness]

I... um... [She takes a deep breath.] I'm just worried. Really worried.

[incandescentfaith]

About...?

[lightthedarkness]

Next month.

Lots of... lots of stuff is repeating like back in Deerington. Maybe not... not exactly... but...

And I can't... I can't sleep. And there's that... that blood sport thing...

What if... [She rubs her face.] Rei-chan, what if that comes back?

[incandescentfaith]

That's all coincidence so far.

[A hardness enters Rei's voice, an edge of clarity and certainty, and instead of speaking she projects thoughts towards Usagi. Testing her new power.]

I won't let that happen again. I will not be so distracted this year.

Video; UN: Cuddlebunny

[lightthedarkness]

REI-CHAN REI-CHAN REI-CHAN! OCTOBER HASN'T BEEN AWFUL YET!

WE MIGHT ACTUALLY GET TO CELEBRATE MINA-CHAN'S BIRTHDAY!

[incandescentfaith]

Even if October was awful, we could probably have managed something.

[Last year had been an outlier.]

I can prepare something to eat for a party.

[lightthedarkness]

I'm gonna ask Mako-chan if she can bake a cake!

We'll have it at my house and I'll take care of decorations and clean up before and after!

[incandescentfaith]

I have no doubt she'll be happy to.

[No doubt at all.]

I'll see about making something more...dinner-like then.

[lightthedarkness]

Should we make it a big party or just the four of us, you think?

[Minako adored attention, but... did she want something like a birthday to be a big thing?]

[incandescentfaith]

That's something you'd need to ask her?

text; late october

[entreats]

You have been invited for Ruby Rose's birthday party!

The party will be held at the house Ruby lives in over in the Gaze district. [ There's an address included, or just general directions, along with the time the party starts. ] Feel free to dress up or not - you know Ruby won't mind either way. You're also free to bring a present if you want to. If you want to bring one, but you're having trouble thinking of what to get her, you can ask me, I guess.

.. Or Oscar. Actually, ask Oscar.

[ Please don't make her talk to people. ]

Let's do our best to make it fun for Ruby. She's had a really crappy time around this time last year, and I know she would love to be surrounded by her friends.

( ooc: the log for the party can be found over here! )

[incandescentfaith]

Thank you, Ange.

I'll see you then.

video; un: rosestorm

[thunderingcourage]

REI-CHAN! You won't believe how great these cinnamon rolls are, and the hot cocoa is really sweet. But not too sweet. I really have to find out how they made them! I was just going to have a bite since they were offering samples and I didn't want to be rude.

But they're so good, I've had three or four of them!

[And as a result, Makoto was being very loud and very friendly. Currently, she was drapped over a table, though she did manage to reach over and glom onto someone else.]

[incandescentfaith]

Makoto...are...you okay?

[Rei is staring, wide eyed, at the video. Is she drunk?!

[thunderingcourage]

I feel great! The food was soo good after all the garbage I've been eating all month.

[Eventually, the other person manages to wrangle their arm free, and Makoto is left to just prop herself on the table and look up.]

We should all get together sometime, and hang out, a girl's night out. No guys.

[incandescentfaith]

What did you eat?

[That's more important than anything, right now. No guys feels obvious...but...Concern!]

[thunderingcourage]

Cinnamon rolls and hot cocoa. But they were really delicious so I had three or four of them.

[No immediate danger to herself, or from anyone else. Though that didn't mean she wasn't problematic.]

Ah, I could you bring you a few and you could try them.

Text; UN: Cuddlebunny

[lightthedarkness]

[That this is a text is probably the first bad sign.]

I have fangs and claws... have had...



Please don't be mad I didn't say something sooner.

[incandescentfaith]

You have fangs and claws?

Usagi what happened? Did you get bitten by a Werewolf or a Vampire?

[lightthedarkness]

[Was... Was that Rei making a joke?]

I dunno, Varian said it's called Corruption, something the Hunters write about a lot.

I got the fangs back in late October, the claws came in November. I've just sorta, been filing them down, the claws I mean. They keep coming and going so I didn't... I didn't know to be worried but after being hit by the mushroom spores in November they just... stayed.

[incandescentfaith]

[No, as someone who turned into a ghost for 2 months, this is a legitimate question.]

Oh. That. Is probably bad.

Why did you hide it?

And how big are they?

[lightthedarkness]

I thought I could handle it on my own. I didn't want to worry you all when they just kept coming and going.

The fangs are... noticeable, the claws about 2 cm long past the nail bed, maybe a little more. Like I said, I was just filing them down or cutting them completely.

Christmas Delivery

[lightthedarkness]

[Wrapped up in a bright red and white box is a plate of bought snowflake cookies and a deep red rose matching bracelets.

Attached is a note with a little rabbit doodle:]

Happy Holidays, Rei!
Love,
Usagi