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[crimsonbells]

[Those roaming the streets during tonight's Dark Hour may see what looks at first glance like just another shadow in the darkness slipping along walls and around corners. It's no shadow, though, nor a Shadow - it's a small young girl, and a very frightened one at that, judging by her harsh, quick breathing and occasional tiny whimper when something startles her.

She presses onward, though, towards her goal. And it's on the return trip, after finding the shadow that contained her gift and now clutching a bound book with covers as red as her kimono, that she's cornered. Three Shadows, moving towards her painfully slowly, as if taking delight in her terror as she drops to the ground, crying and pushing herself up against the wall behind her. Ghosts, just like at home, and she's trapped again, just like then-!

Finally, when they're closing in and she's hiding her face, she opens her mouth to cry out for her brother - but what comes out instead is a word she's only heard a few times. Persona.

When she dares look up, it's not to the face of death, but to a lithe, dog-like creature looking at her with unmistakeable concern on its narrow face, ears perked. It even wags its tail a little, as if to say "are you okay now?" - almost enough to make her laugh a little, and she hesitantly reaches up to stroke its head.]

Thank you...

Comments

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[crimsonbells]

[Chitose jumps a little, then looks up at Neville, smiling a bit as she recognizes him]

I think so, yeah... they didn't touch me.

[the dog-creature looks up at him too, staying close to Chitose, but certainly looking more curious than unfriendly]

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[madethemproud]

That's good. [He smiles over at the dog.] It looks like you found your Persona.

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[crimsonbells]

Yeah, I guess so. [still absently stroking the creature's head] Do you have one, too?

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[madethemproud]

Um, yeah. [He looks uncomfortable. He still hasn't figure out how to make his Persona wear more clothes.]

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[crimsonbells]

[Poor Neville >> that expression makes her frown a little and tilt her head] Don't you like yours?

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[madethemproud]

It's not so much I don't like her, it's just she's not really appropriate to be shown.

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[crimsonbells]

I see...

[she doesn't, really, but that's okay!] Do you, ah... know much about Personas? I really don't know anything at all... just that we all have one to protect us.

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[madethemproud]

Not much more than that, sorry. John tried to explain it, but it just seems like some kind of magic to me.

[crimsonbells]

Yeah... that's what it seems like to me, too. I thought they were ghosts at first. [that's the only kind of supernatural thing she knows about >>]

[madethemproud]

You can touch them. That's a lot different from the ghosts I know.

[crimsonbells]

You can't touch ghosts in your world? [she looks quite surprised, and curious] In mine, you can... well, they can touch you, I guess. I think they killed me.

[so casual about it, Chitose.]