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[center][color=fff79a]"Air Maeda is open for business, I guess."[/color][/center]
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Haruna sat up a little straighter in response to Kiyo. She couldn't help but give the crimson-eyed girl a concerned glance. Her arm lifted halfway to give her a reassuring pat before realizing that the action would air out Kiyo's stresses to the group as a whole, something she had firmly resolved not to do to anyone without a good reason. [color=fff79a]"I still need a little more time to recover, but I can try to focus on regenerating THUNDER CRACK if we're worried about backup transportation."[/color] She felt a little more aware of being one of the only ones here untransformed, but Hizuki needed as much rest as possible. [color=fff79a]"I [i]think[/i] I can carry everyone?"[/color] She'd never actually tried to carry that many people, but it seemed within her power. 

She also took a moment to nod at Roche. [color=fff79a]"That's a good attitude. I can also try to talk to any light girls we run across and explain the situation. They might not be thrilled about who its coming from, but I doubt anyone wants a giga miseria stomping around her hometown."[/color] Haruna tried to focus on the issues they voiced; besides Kiyo, the desires of everyone in the room blended into a hazy miasma of fears and anxieties, obfuscated even further by her lack of transformation. It was honestly distracting, like trying to have a phone conversation with a loud party next door. 

There was also the matter of Tsubomi. She was. . . different. She couldn't tell if this was the old, pre-fall Tsubomi, the one they'd called a weed, or some combination of the two. At the very least, this one would be less frustrating to talk to. The light girl felt a little guilty at the thought; it was mean to get mad at someone for things they couldn't control, and this might well mean the slow girl she'd met was, effectively, [i]dead.[/i] 

Maybe that's why Kiyo wanted her to shut up so badly.

[color=fff79a]"I'm not going to be able to do the trick I did against Black Gate for a while, by the way. If we bite off more than we can chew, that's it. Ideally I don't have to do that again until Ashbringer's team comes back."[/color] The mention of Michi made her shoot another glance in Earthshaker's direction. The expression on her face, at least until she smoothed it over again, was conflicted. She had a lot of sympathy for Roche. The two of them had a lot in common. Evidently, though, it wasn't enough to prevent Roche from doing something that felt more than a little bit like a betrayal. Haruna didn't want to hold it against Roche, because the Rule Keeper had plenty of reason to not fight at the time. . . but it was difficult. Her sensibilities rebelled against the decision, even if she understood it. [color=fff79a][i]There's the gap between light and dark again, I guess.[/i][/color]