[center][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/e345a640-6f5c-47dc-a2b8-3adc8382b2a0.png[/img] [color=orange]If I had coffee, I’d be spitting a hole through the building.[/color][/center] [hr]

What. The. Flying. Fuck?!

It wasn’t ideal that Regina was flirting with the rest of the club, but that Zassou had come out of their most recent crisis by mentally rebounding into an outgoing chatterbox. Roche was aware enough to admit she was being a massive bitch about it, but was it really too much to ask for the reluctant to volunteer Tsubomi back for just the one meeting?

She even volunteered Ashbringer’s actual name, no doubt souring the girl's plans to covertly cozy up to the rest of them and prodding her to escalate in response. Just by voicing everything that Roche had been agonizing over for months-

[color=orange]”Oh, that’s what it is.”[/color] Roche vocalized, wearing the expression of a pedestrian who just turned to stare straight into Truck-Kun’s high beams. Forget feeling like one, the Rule Keeper simply was a rancid bitch for feeling such strong jealousy claw its way into her heart in the face of Zassou’s honesty. Was it really a virtue when it came from lips that seemed to care nothing for the future?

It could have been an opportunity to come clean as well, but then she’d derail the entire discourse to her own mess, and why she had waited for Zassou to confess first. No, she’d have to bury it deep now and deal with the inevitable explosion later. 

Following Kiyo’s example and prompting, she cut in before she could nix the prospect of a second van. There wasn’t going to be any hope of Nyxia spending multiple days afield with them if she didn’t have somewhere private to revert to Norika. [color=orange]”Considering I was the one who drove a van to our beach trip, I can handle the second van if you can procure it. If nothing else it’ll let us pack more than the bare essentials so we aren’t miserable traveling.”[/color]

[color=orange]”We do need to face the facts, however; We are a known quantity. Even when we aren’t looking for trouble, Magical Girls find us. They follow us. They try to take us down. We can’t give up on our growth just because we fear provoking someone who’d have taken a punch at us just for existing regardless. We don’t need to go around burning cities down, but we need to take every opportunity we can.”[/color]