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[gekkodaze]

Posted: April 29
From: Satoshi

hey everyone! i was wondering if anyone has seen Yumi…she is also Vesta. i haven’t seen her in a day or so and i was getting worried.

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[spes_phthisica]

ayunee-sama?
i havent seen her either
youre her shinki right

[gekkodaze]

one of them, yeah.

[spes_phthisica]

im a friend of hers and yamato-kun
i really hope nothings happened :c
you should probably wait for her a while longer
running around might mean youll only miss her

[gekkodaze]

i hope so too. i'm gonna go look for her here soon, just wanted to see if anyone had talked to her.

[fingerbangs]

[Guess who just had an epiphany about this. Because while he realized she was gone in a detached sort of way... Yeah, it's just now seeming odd to him.]

Hey thats right! she HAS been gone. didnt she say she was just going out for a little bit or some crap like that??

[gekkodaze]

i know she said that but she's almost always around when i get back home and she hasn't been. have you tried calling her?

[fingerbangs]

[You're asking him to have used his brain??

Give him a few seconds as he does just that so he can say: ]

uhhh duh? course I have. I'm not that stupid. have you tried calling her? cuz she didnt pick up 4 me.

[But, you know, he chalks that up to him being just too new for her to have those kind of heart-to-heart phone calls where they actually answer.]

[gekkodaze]

i did but nothing. i hope she's okay. people said if we still have our names then we don't have to worry about anything bad happening to her.

[fingerbangs]

Yea well, i cant really see my name so i cant say if its still there. wouldnt her temple be gone too or something like that?

[koukai_kirai]

["Yumi?"]

[The alias registers a little slowly, but more immediately than her god name does. Unseen behind his computer screen, Hijikata freezes up, gripped by the aftershocks of an old fear, an old grief.]

[It's probably fine. He's probably overreacting...]

She'd said she was going to come to my shrine today, but I haven't seen her yet. It doesn't seem like her to be late without notice.

[It's not like her. It's completely out of her character, and he knows that better than anyone. The last time she disappeared...]

[She's fine. She's a smart woman, she knows what she's doing.]

Where did you see her last?

[gekkodaze]

she was here at the temple and said she was leaving for a bit but she'd be back...

[koukai_kirai]

When precisely?

[There's a pause, but not much of one, before he adds:]

I'm coming over.

[gekkodaze]

about a day or so ago. it's just not like her to...not come back.

-> Action!

[koukai_kirai]

[There's no answer on the network. Very shortly, though, there are two sharp, firm knocks on the front door of Vesta's temple.]

[reformedsinner]

Is your name from her still there?

[gekkodaze]

yeah, i think so.

[reformedsinner]

Then she's still here somewhere. Have you tried calling her? I've only met her once; I don't have her number.

[gekkodaze]

i tried that first; she always answers me, but this time she didn't...

[reformedsinner]

[That's a very bad sign. She might not be gone, but that doesn't mean she isn't hurt. Even badly hurt.]

All right. When she left, did she tell you where she was going?

[roeh]

[Damnit another one?] If you haven't woken up in any strange new temples, then she's out there. Or she'll be back at least. Speaking from experience.

[gekkodaze]

that's good. i don't want something to happen to her...

[roeh]

Well unless you've woken up in any strange new shrines she's still out there for you to find. I'll ask Yasusada if he knows anything too.

[gekkodaze]

thank you! i really appreciate it

[faintsforjustice]

I don't know. What does she look like?

[He still doesn't know many people around here.]

[gekkodaze]

well she's got dark hair and she's pretty and also kind of short!

[ Satoshi that is not helpful. ]