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[center][color=fff79a]"This is [i]fine[/i]."[/color][/center]
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When Haruna last believed she was conscious, she was Hizuki, flying ahead at full tilt, having narrowly evaded the grasp of a foe with a vulnerable innocent in tow. When true wakefulness came to her unexpectedly, she was still trying to use parts of her body that didn't exist, manipulate flows of magic that were still dormant in whatever space the bodies of magical girls hid while not in use. The result was an uncomfortable lurch upon the transition from being asleep to being awake, and her body electing to flex what limbs it [i]did[/i] have in response to the confusing signals sent by her mind.

In other words, shortly after Kiyo asked the newest - and, at this rate, likely shortest-running - member of the Detention Club a startlingly heartfelt question, the second-newest member hurled herself up and forward, collided with the table she'd been slumped at, then flopped sideways onto the floor, grunting in pain at both impacts. 

Another moment, and she realized where she was. In the club room, in a significantly more rumpled version of the casual clothes she'd worn yesterday after leaving school and changing out of her uniform. Where they had, evidently, all ended up, as she glanced around, including a still-transformed Black Gate.

[i][color=fff79a]Dream manipulation. That explains a lot.[/color][/i] The situation had seemed impossible because it was. There was no world where Black Gate's ape creatures were that powerful, no world where she caused that level of widespread disruption. No world where Tsubomi's problems were solved so easily, no world where the GEMs just left well enough alone and trusted her, of all people, to watch the situation.

There was, however, a world where a magical girl used Haruna's aid to strike at the hearts of the rest of the club emotionally, exploiting a belief that an increasingly large number of people - including the girl doing said exploitation - had told her was far too foolish and naiive to cling to. [i][color=fff79a]Yeah. I'll just stay right here for a moment. I probably can't make things worse from down here.[/color][/i]