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[color=tomato]”[i]...Oh[/i]"[/color]

[color=888888]— Suki Oyama[/color][/center]

Suki considered understood the value of lies. They were an easy way of shortening long explanations, escaping the consequences of her actions, or maintaining relationships. That last one was something her parents had taught her a long time ago. Despite that, she tended not to lie to her fellow Detention Club if she could help it. If you were going to work with someone it was important that they trust you. One had to be careful when they chose to lie and about something. Different lies had different amounts of risk and reward, and perhaps Haruna had not considered the consequences of hers.

It shouldn’t have been a surprise, really. Lying was something most girls got pretty good at. But super cuties were too innocent to lie like that. Spinning a lie to get into some exclusive club was the sort of selfish behavior [i]Suki[/i] would stoop to doing. It turned Haruna from a beacon of light into just a normal girl with a savior complex. Perhaps worse was her magical girl identity. It was okay that Haruna wasn’t some defenseless child, but she could have been a white angel with pink hair. Instead she was that cold metal monstrosity. How gullible Suki had been. 

She didn’t know what she wanted out of tonight, [b]but right now she had a desire to just escape.[/b] But there was nowhere to run. Tsubomi was sitting in front of her, Kiyo and Haruna flanked her sides, and Nyxia was at her back. As if to block the exit, Roche was standing near the doorway. It would have been nice to avoid Nyxia’s taunts, Roach’s gloating, and any of the other distractions. But to everyone else, Suki just looked a little surprised. She could be a good liar too.


[color=tomato]"Ah, well."[/color] She cleaned her ear with her pinky. [color=tomato]"I don’t think ‘Hizuki’ made much of an effort to be nice to me. But maybe I didn’t notice it while I was getting my arms cut off."[/color] With a nervous chuckle, she looked straight ahead. At least she knew what she could call Haruna now. But it was too soon to start using it.[color=tomato]"Anyway, Nyx, These are all places where the Gems have been spotted. Some of them resulted in attacks, like the one by the theater. They’ve shown up everywhere except directly inside Hibusa town. They’ve gotta be camping out somewhere nearby. They show up too frequently to be going back to the city every morning. Are they home schooled or something?"[/color]

With the amount of red string surrounding Hibusa town, it was evident there had been a lot of sightings. The attack near the theater was the only one that happened inside Hibusa itself. With all others being on neighboring territories. 

Contrary to what Roche might have thought, Suki wasn’t the least bit interested in analyzing her behavior. She turned away from Haruna and Roche to look at Kiyo. [color=tomato]"Oh! Yea, you said something about a monkey attacking your eyes when the giga miseria showed up. What was the deal with that?"[/color]

It was strange that Shuuko wasn’t here yet. But given how Roche was grinning, chances were she needed her rest.

Then she appeared, as if to dismiss that accusation.

Or at least that was what Suki had figured, going by the voice. She didn’t turn to look and figured the others could fill her in if she really needed it. Suki was late to class sometimes, but that was because she didn’t want to be here. And, well, normally she didn’t mind being here, but today she wished she had arrived late too. Her eyes flicked over to Tsubomi, then back to Kiyo. 

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[color=deeppink]”Doin’ what I gotta do since 2007!”[/color]

[color=888888]— Willow[/color][/center]

Going to the club room to learn all the latest gossip might have been a good idea, but it didn’t serve Willow’s aims. Rei was out here somewhere, which meant they could walk together. But Rei could be strangely elusive when she wanted to be. Frustrated, Willow hovered up and down the streets with a phantom unicorn at her side. She ignored the eyeball floating just behind her head. She ignored the stumpy monkey that lunged for it moments later. She didn’t respond as the unicorn rushed to the eyeballs aid and pushed back the monkey. Willow sighed deeply. It was the perfect time of day for a walk. The sky was orange, but it was shrinking with every second. Did Rei not want to watch the night sky devour the sunset? 

Then something caught her attention. 

Among the eyeballs, monkeys, and unicorns, it seemed that frogs were also on the list of night time visitors. Willow floated to the ground to examine the frog. It was large and bumpy, which was how she had been able to discover it from so high up. She tried to lift the docile croaker with one hand, but it was much too large. She ended up needing to direct it onto the back of her violin, which she lifted up to her face. Did frogs like this live around here? 

She examined the frog briefly, taking in it’s slimy texture, its less than vibrant colors, and those golden eyes it had. But her curiosity hadn't been satisfied until she licked the back of the frog. Her eyes dilated, and it leaped off her instrument to escape down an alleyway. 

[color=deeppink]”Oh yes…”[/color] She said as her pupils threatened to consume her irises. [color=deeppink]”This is one of those magical frogs!”[/color] 

Without cleaning the back of her violin, she set it on her shoulder and started to play. The unicorn dropped to the ground and charged after the large frog. The frog might have had a head start, but the few hops it could manage before needing to rest weren’t going to save it from the incoming nightmare. It lowered its gleaming horn as Willow played into a crescendo.