notyourutopian | IC Contact: Recollé

Just like that. It was like stepping through a gate or something like in a movie.

I don't really know how to describe it but I swear it's true. Just like my Persona.

Well I can hardly start doubting you now, right? [Eleanor smiled, but her expression was curious.]

Have you tried it here?

Of course. But...not yet. Maybe it's not an ability I've gained yet. Or there's a trick to it I don't know.

[Eleanor's eyes narrowed as she thought it over, a few possibilities slipping through but nothing she felt wasn't insane. Not that using insanity was a fair measure anymore.]

I suppose we'll find out.

[She forced herself to sit up a bit straighter, her hands settling on her knees.]

So, this...sun goddess of yours. What can she do, hm? Other than float and look pretty?

[Her smile was a bit teasing, really.]

Well, she can fight. Obviously.

[Yukiko mimes swinging a sword, a hard chop of her hand. HIYA!]

Those swords are good at that. I think I have an idea of what they might be, too. But they're not as spectacular as the other stuff. she can fly, and carry me. And she lets me use magic. It's stronger when she does it, but it's fire magic like before. And a healing spell.

[Eleanor just listened intently, trying to picture it, and managed to only giggle instead of outright laugh at Yukiko's mock karate chop. Sorry Yukiko that was pretty cute. But...the last thing.]

Healing? [Okay, this was the first time she was hearing about a power like that. Fire, sure, you could come up with a way for that to work. TK? Okay, strange, but again, she could come up with a basis for it. But healing...]

So if I cut my hand open on a rock, you could fix it?

[It was, and Yukiko had definitely done it to lighten the mood.]

I could. And I would. When we fought Thanatos, she healed me several times, and I came out of it just fine.

[Yukiko rather pointedly reaches into her pack for a small pen knife and pulls it out, flicking the blade open.]

I can show you? This is cleaner than a rock.

[Eleanor's eyes went a little wide at the knife because since when did Yukiko carry a knife?!]

Uh.

[Okay she filed that away to ask later, and after a moment she just nodded, holding out her hand. palm up. She'd been an active kid, she was no stranger to cuts on her hand, even if they did usually hurt.]

Sure. Let's see.

[It's just a pen knife, Eleanor. Maybe two inches long, the kind of thing you'd keep around to cut little things like stray fiber on clothes.]

Alright.

[Yukiko gingerly reaches over and slids the blade against Eleanor's skin. Not deep, not even close to deep. but enough to draw blood.]

Ready?

[Eleanor hissed at the pain, fingers twitching as the line of blood appears on her palm. She felt proud of herself for not yanking her hand away, at least?]

Our lives are awfully strange anymore, aren't they.

[She said with a little grin, before nodding.]

Ready.

Okay.

[Wasting no more time, Yukiko held out her hand and called on her Persona. Not the whole way, not this time, but just asking for a trickle of power. And it came, a warm pulse of greenish light flashed...and when it faded, the cut was gone.]

See?

[Eleanor didn't quite know what to expect, but a glowing light, a kind of...tingle...and then her hand being fine wasn't really it. Part of her thought it should've hurt more? Well.]

[She wiggled her fingers, bringing her hand closer to examine where the cut had been. Huh.]

Well that's...[Don't say impossible.] Impressive.

I thought so too. I...when I call her out, she can do a lot more. I was cut up pretty badly fighting Thanatos. But when we ended the fight, I was just fine. A couple of bruises and mussed up hair.

[That's important.]

Anyway. That's about all I can do so far. Just fire, fire and more fire. And healing. Though fire also doesn't seem to hurt me anymore.

Hey, that's still two more things than I can do. [Eleanor grinned, holding up her hand, and a rock on the ground nearby floated up and darted over to drop into her palm.] Still mostly just for hurling rocks around.

[Still. She couldn't help but be worried here. The things Yukiko was describing, they were dangerous. And not retrospec dangerous, but...other people dangerous.]

...The next time something like that goes down, or even think something like that is going to go down, tell me, alright? Just...[She trailed off.] I've got your back, okay?

[Yukiko definitely smiled, calling up a little ball of fire, rolling it across her palm like it was nothing. It didn't hurt, really. It felt nice even, if she were honest.]

I know you do, Eleanor. That's why I'm telling you all this. That...thing attacked me here, I didn't go looking for it. The dragonfly too. I'm not cruising around looking for trouble. Just mysteries, and lost dogs.

[The club hadn't really had much going on but NPC activity after all.]

Promise, you're in the top 5 people I want with me if there's something really dangerous. Right after the army, the police, the FBI, and the air force.

Hmmm.

[Eleanor seemed to think all this over, very seriously, considering Yukiko's face. Finalyl she sucked in a breath and sat up straighter, letting it out slowly before she spoke.]

I should really be above the air force, I think.

[A slow, somewhat silly grin spread on her face.]

I don't know...they have airplanes with machine guns. But you're higher than the Navy.

[And she doesn't want to put you in danger. That's non-negotiable. The air force at least gets paid for that.]

I am completely better than an airplane with a machine gun. I can throw rocks.

[She tossed her rock to demonstrate. And then she snickers.]

Being better than the navy isn't exactly hard, Yukiko.

You can throw rocks. But...you know you keep making arguements and I might change my mind. The navy does have airplanes with machine guns too.

[She gestures out towards the water.]

And they totally have battleships out there somewhere that could shell the beach. If it's a fight on the beach.

Well if you're going to insist on involving logic in all this...

[Eleanor sighed deeply, as if she were so put upon.]

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