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She didn't see it. She didn't see the blonde girl walking by behind her now-turned back. But she [i]felt[/i] it. As she took her third step away from Haruna and Michi, Tsubomi felt the crushing weight of the passing girl's pain. It stuck her like a baseball bat to the side of the head, causing her to physically recoil and stumble to the side, barely catching herself a step later. It was a good thing Haruna was to her left, the empath not having realized that the two of them shared their next class.

Had being so long without control really made her this sensitive to the way she felt her magic? She'd have to figure that out later, because for now she was having trouble even thinking straight.

When, after a few seconds of standing still, Tsubomi turned back around, she didn't even see the larger crowd that had gathered. She could only glare at the blonde girl as if Sylvia had chosen to feel the way she did just to hurt her personally. As her not-so-subtle stare was finally broken, she made a mental note of the girl's appearance. There was no way to know [i]why[/i] she was feeling that way, but it was dangerous in more ways than just to Tsubomi's magic. But she'd deal with that later. Preferably after a class without that girl in it.

But before she could walk off again, Suki stopped to talk. It didn't really matter what she was saying to Tsubomi, because the other girl was, to her dismay, [i]still there[/i]. With both Michi's question and the growing number of apostles she seemed to be accumulating going unnoticed, she tried once again to stumble her way to her classroom. 

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Zassou didn't know what the cat meant. What did the Vatican have to do with Mascots? Were cats catholic? If they were, what kind? After a few seconds of thought, in which she did more processing than she usually did in an hour, she concluded that catholic cats made sense, at least for the magic ones. After all, there was nothing but Rome under the sun.

A would-be shock to the girl, if she could feel the results of one, was that she could follow the Mascot's speech while [i]also[/i] being able to think her own thoughts. 

[color=00aeef]"Mm... I don't think so. You exist to me. We're talking, you can't talk with something that isn't real. Unless you're also not real, maybe."[/color] Zassou paused once more, another few thoughts managing to dig their way through the caved in tunnels of her synapses. 

[color=00aeef]"Plus, negative times negative is a plus. Double not existing is existing, I think."[/color] Was this cat the Mascot or another feline entirely?

[color=00aeef]"This one is sociable. It rubs on my legs and purrs a lot. And you're here, you're socializing. Are you the telekitten's inner thoughts?"[/color] She almost said something about how talking to the color yellow was a good thing, something she respected artists for doing, but the Cheshire opened its teeth once more to ask a bigger question. 

-[i]'Do you want a wish granted.'[/i]-

Even with her new mental faculties and RAM, she needed a little time to think on that. 

-[i][color=00aeef]Maybe we aren't meant to have our wishes granted.[/color][/i]-

And yet she already had. Tsubomi'd had hers granted, that's why she got her magic. Suki, Kiyo, the others in the Club... Even Nocturne and the boss lady had their granted. Did things turn out well for them? Maybe, maybe not. But it wasn't like they were gone yet, so even if it was bad, they still had time for things to become good. 

But what about Zassou? She didn't get a wish granted by a cat, but whatever was going on now was good. Tsubomi was free, she herself could think... Did she want or need anything else? 

A song, one she herself had only heard once, but which echoed throughout her very being from Tsubomi's love for it, played in her mind. Even if it was for the sake of everyone's wishing, she wouldn't wish for a world without wishes. That's what it said, wasn't it? Even with clearer mind she couldn't remember for sure. So... not yet.

[color=00aeef]"... Mm. No, thank you. Things are okay for now."[/color] The girl's eyes were covered with vibrant color as she bowed in appreciation for the offer. 

After a couple seconds in that position, she stood back to her full, slumped height. [color=00aeef]"But I'd like to know about you. What's your name?"[/color]