Scene #2760: Overexertion

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Amy Faust	So yeah there were some... ''moments'' during the Karaoke, but one way or another, Amy missed Miho after she woke up... And she wants to talk in person not over text... but one thing leads to another and she doesn't bump into Miho until lunchtime on a day soon after! "Oh, Miho!" Amy's glad to see her but also looks a little awkward, lowering her voice as she comes close. "I'm sorry if I made you feel weird at Karaoke, can we talk a bit? But uh... since it's magic stuff... " She nods her head at the door to the stairs to the roof.
Miho Inada	Miho tends to wake up early, and runs in the morning. So, yeah, Miho likely got out before all the other teens got up. She blinks a little bit as Amy catches up with her at lunch time. She nods her head a little bit as she gets her curry. "Sure. Let me get this wrapped up.", she says. She follows Amy up to the roof. She heads over to where there's a good shaded spot where she can eat out of the sun, but gives her a good view of the roof top in case others sneak up. She opens up a small can of tea she got with the curry. The Ice Mahou takes a moment to open up her curry. "Sorry, kinda hungry since I skipped breakfast this morning.", she admits. Miho? Missing a meal? Huh?! She takes in a deep breath, sniffing the curry.
Amy Faust	Amy blinks. "Why did you skip-- no, eat it then... I should've asked to talk ''after'' food..." She's grabbed a sandwich, and takes a bite, and chews, and swallows. "...So I was just... gah I had this whole, like, everything I was gonna say in my head and now it's thrown off. Um... I guess first of all... I'm sorry if I made it weird or played with your heart or anything, by... being that way while I was turned into a boy, I of all people ''really'' should've known better."
Miho Inada	Miho quickly eats her food. The school's curry isn't as good as Rashmi's, but its definitely better then anything around the school. And kinda free for her since she's boarding at the school. The mahou nods her head a little bit as she listens a bit to Amy. She pauses a moment as she looks at Amy. The mahou shakes her head a little bit, and looks at Amy a bit. Miho takes a long moment to take a napkin, and wipe her mouth a little bit. "I was the one who snuggled into you, so no worries. I should be apologizing.", she says. Miho stretches out a little bit. "Look, I had some time in Kyoto over break. And a friend made a suggestion to me. I took her up on it.", Miho tells. The girl lets out a breath. "She said I was restraining myself so much that I was hurting myself.", she admits. Miho shakes her head a little bit as she tells this to Amy.
Amy Faust	Amy takes another bite of her sandwich and listens, blushing a bit at the reminder of the snuggling. "That, that was fine..." And then she chews and swallows and repeats it with a mouth ''not'' full of sandwich. And Miho continues, and... "...That's a mood. If there's one thing I'm, like... that's a overarching, like, lesson about this whole... situation? It's that, if I get a chance to be ''me'', then... even if it's silly or foolish sometimes... I wanna do what feels ''right''. No more hiding my feelings or worrying that I can't be this around people." "...I mean, thanks to magic some stuff ''has'' to be hidden, and I'm a fallable human who gets afraid sometimes so I don't always live up to it, but... How can I be a magical girl if I do what feels ''wrong'' just because someone can argue that it's actually right?" Amy blinks. "Okay now that I say it out loud I see another failure mode... No, that's semantics. Feels wrong ''to me'', not, feels like I'll be judged over." She thinks about that for a second, and nods. She looks back to Miho and waves the sandwich at her. "Good on you listening to that friend. You're-- we're teenagers. This is a time for trying things and taking risks -- like, regular life risks not recklessness in combat I mean -- and you're not gonna get any brownie points from people as an adult for being a prim and proper goodie two-shoes ''now.''" She's about to bite her sandwich again when she has a thought. "So... What are you gonna do differently now, anyway?" she asks, ''then'' bites the sandwich and chews.
Miho Inada	Miho takes a moment to listen. She takes a deep breath, and slowly lets it out. "Well, for starters...", she says. The woman leans over, and kisses Amy's cheek a bit. "Yes, I like boys, but I can't say that I dislike girls.", she blushes horribly. "I...well, its a bit awkward to say out loud. Like I can't decide which I like better...", Miho tells. She takes a deep breath. "Its hard for me to phrase things the way I want to phrase it.", Miho tells. "Its...how do I say my emotions?", she tells. The mahou finishes her curry, and puts it to the side. "As for magic stuff?", the girl says. She looks at Amy a bit. "We're going witch hunting sometime very soon. I feel...weird, magically. I've been getting...headaches lately. Very nasty ones.", she says. "So, I don't know if something big is coming or not.", she tells. The woman hugs herself a bit. Amy might remember before Miho awakened, she would get headaches bad enough that she had medication for it. Once she was off the meds, she awakened her magic. Miho sighs a bit. "Maybe I'm being a bit silly.", she says. The girl leans against the wall. "Its like, there's a lot I want to say, but I don't know how to say it..."
Amy Faust	Amy is completely not expecting that and freezes for a split second in surprise, then turns and looks at Miho, blushing a bit, "Mmmh?" but, she has to chew and swallow before she can say words, listening to the rest of what her friend says while opening a milk carton hurriedly grabbed from the cafeteria earlier. "I think... having trouble putting feelings into words is pretty normal. Writers and orators are renowned for being able to do it well ''because'' it's unusual..." She sips her drink. "And of course you can come on a Witch hunt, next time I sense one, if we don't end up abruptly already in it... Although I guess they've been kinda sparse lately." "Maybe the headaches mean you're getting ''more'' magical? Uh... when exactly did they go away last time? Oh, and..." Amy shrugs, "I'm pretty new to queer stuff, and I haven't like... ''talked'' to someone in detail about it, but... it doesn't have to be a contest between them, or rather... I don't think you need to pressure yourself to figure out which you like 'more' if it's not clear. You can be bi?" "And maybe," Amy waves the sandwich slightly as she might were she holding a small book, or something better to point with, "for all I know, liking boys feels ''different'' from liking girls? Maybe it's hard to compare them like they're similar things." She smiles and looks away a bit shyly, touching her fingertips to where Miho kissed. "I'm certainly not uh... ''complaining'' about this. But uh, I mean, your happiness and comfort is more important than if I'm getting kisses out of it, of course!" Amy looks thoughtful. "Although, ''about'' boys and girls... huh. I think I... figured something out, the other day..."
Miho Inada	Miho takes a long moment to think how to respond to Amy. First she address the magical part. "As for getting more magical? I don't know. From what I understand, things were crazy in Paris when I was getting headaches the first time. When they went away the first time? After Ultra...Japan...Which is next weekend...", she says. "When I awakened." The girl turns bright red at Amy's comment about maybe being bi. She sucks in a breath. Miho suddenly quiet ups for a long moment, holding back her comment. The girl shakes her head a little bit before she sips her tea while sitting up more proper. Miho listens to Amy a bit as she focuses her mind. "What have you figured out?", she asks. The girl seems a bit stiff, as her nerves seems to kick up a bit.
Amy Faust	Amy's eyes widen. "S-so... you could be sensing another Beryl-level threat...? What are the mahou in Paris or Seattle fighting...? We'll have to check the news later... see if anything's been up... or there's something brewing here..." She looks in the direction of Obsidian Tower. "...Only in this context, would I say, I hope maybe you just have a headache. Have you talked to Setsuna-cha--err, Nurse Meiou?" Amy looks back to Miho and blinks. "Oh, right. Uh... where to start..." She takes a breath. "When we first planned that... magical karaoke, with the genderbending... I was just overjoyed that Usagi-chan and Mamoru were interested. I-I mean... like... I know, now, that getting genderswapped isn't going to be as great for most people as it was for me, and I was glad for any chance to share the experience without hurting someone... although I wondered if maybe those two just turned out to be bigender or something." "So... although I figured, being a boy again would be super uncomfortable and suck, I wanted to be a good sport. But I dealt with it before. And at least I could try the sing-with-myself thing." She takes a breath. "But this time... it was temporary, just for minutes, and I ''knew'' that, and... like, I ''know'' I'm a girl, and it wasn't gonna change how anyone sees me. So like..." She scratches the side of her head. "It was more like, a costume? Or a game avatar? One I could ''feel'', but... yeah. An' that made it... like, I could kinda have fun with it? Although, the deep voice was bugging me the whole time, but..." She hangs her head and sighs. "I was used to it, before. And I'm proud of being able to sing well with the voice even if I don't like it. And like, this was different than if I had to... ''live'' as a guy, be seen as one, all day, in social situations and stuff, you know? The only people there knew the deal." She takes a breath and looks back to Miho. "''But''... in going with the flow and having fun with it, I didn't think about how it looked to ''you?'' I'm glad that worked out, but like... I understand now. I've seen people behave like that plenty of times in manga and -- aside from the times that it's clear a 'guy' turned out to be a straight or bi girl -- I was always like, why on ''earth'' would you flirt with your bros, man? Bad enough the body probably feels awful, but like, ''why''? And yet, in the moment..." Amy shrugs. "Because it ''was'' like a costume, in the moment it didn't seem like it could be serious, or taken seriously." She grimaces a bit. "Although, I'm not sure if ''taking'' it seriously is more a mark of mangakas having a boys-will-be-boys mentality," she relaxes a bit, "or that it really would mess with people, I only know how it felt from the TSko's side." She takes and lets out a breath, blinking and gently waving the sandwich again. "Thus the apology to you, although I was pretty sure you wouldn't interpret it as me having an interest in a relationship ''as a guy'', and like... we're already gonna try a date, so it's not like interest isn't ''there'' either, just... not from a guy." She shrugs. "So uh... actually..." and she can't help her eyes sparkling with interest and leaning forward a little, "if you ''can'' put it into words... how ''did'' it feel from your perspective? Come to think of it, this would be really good to know for what the stories get right!" Beat. She looks thoughtful. "Although, they're almost never FtM..."
Miho Inada	Miho shakes her head a little bit. "I don't think so much that. I lost a lot of the sensitivity to stuff after I awaken.", she tells. The girl takes a deep breath. "Like I still get annoying pings when I pass a youma or something magical, but nothing that I've gotten used to. I mean, I would be so sick with headaches just walking down the hallways here!", the ice mahou teases as she laughs a little. Miho laughs a little bit as Amy asks how it felt. She shakes her head a little bit, blushing a bit. "Actually, there wasn't really much of a difference. I never thought of you as a gender to be fair. After you told me your secret, I was always nervous about how to address you. I decided after a little thought, it really didn't matter. The only difference? You were taller then me, so I could snuggle you!", she teases. "All the warm fuzzies were there, so...", she admits. Miho takes a sip of her tea as she leans against the wall. "I mean, when we henshin, I'm half if not more youkai. Do you think of me as a Youkai, a Mahou, or as a friend?", she says. "Its kinda like that. I choose to see you, instead of what form you take.", she says. "And yes, I do go boi crazy. I mean, Izou, oh mah gawd! That hair, and looks.", the ice mahou says. She fans a little bit. She's never met Izou in person though. "And I have a hard time talking with Mamoru. He's on the List.", she says. "I just never really talked about girls in that sense cause it felt awkward, especially since I'm from an old clan in Kyoto, as well as a shrine maiden.", she admits.
Amy Faust	Amy listens, and thoughts flicker across her face at the 'nervous about how to address you, it didn't matter', but she does giggle at the 'so I could snuggle you!'. And smiles and blushes a bit at being told she gives Miho warm fuzzies. And then gets sort of a knowing (knowing ''what?'') smirk at the comments about Izou and Mamoru. After Miho's explanation, Amy nods. "Certainly, if I realized I were attracted to boys after being raised to think it was unacceptable, I'd have some adjusting to do. Sometimes, earlier on, I felt like... it felt kinda unearned to, to put myself in the same category as lesbians, who ''did'' have to deal with that." "Saitou-san certainly is... hot, I suppose." She smirks again. "You should've seen him at Usagi and Mamoru's wedding reception. He was so beautiful in that dress I felt like I lost a race I didn't even know I was running in." She takes a breath and closes her eyes. "Mamoru... it's weird, I kind of forget how he's seen by most of the girls at school sometimes?" She opens her eyes again. "I see him... like what you said about me. He's just Mamoru. I wonder if you should see him that way too? But, he's also Usagi's boyfriend." She blinks. "''Husband.''" "As for you... I guess I don't really think of you as a youkai because I understand that less. I only know uh, limited myths about yuki-onna, and you're not exactly... I guess I can't tell how it affects who you are. But yeah, you're my friend, and a girl, and a fellow student here, and a mahou who's my comrade-in-arms kouhai in this monster-fighting business. And, you can snuggle me when I'm shorter than you, too, I wouldn't mind." She admits with a slight blush. But, something does have to be said, which is why she's finishing with it. "Past me would have been happy to hear that you don't think of boy as part of who I am, and not know why. But now... And if there's ever any confusion about how to think of, or address, or refer to me:" She states firmly, with a splayed hand held to her chest: '''"I'm a woman!"''' "...'m not like, mad, the confusion's my own fault, and maybe I explained poorly... it ''is'' an unusual experience to go through, especially like this, getting a magical transition before I even ''realized'' I was a trans girl and just thrown into school and life as a girl with no questions asked. And it's... ''I'm a woman,'' but, I was new to it, and I'm ''still'' newer to it than, well, you and every other girl I interact with." "Like you're... my senpais in girl-ness, and... it's less that there is or was, even last year, much ''doubt'', and more that like... I didn't want to, misleadingly claim to ''have'' that seniority and experience myself, you know? But, that was kinda hard to put into words..." She gives a curious look. "Does that make things a bit clearer?"
Miho Inada	"That I'm not a blood sucking woman who throws samurai off of mountains, and makes people hold rocks that cry like babies as they try to survive a blizzard?", she asks. Miho giggles at the thought of her trying to throw a fully grown man in armor off a cliff. That would be quite a sight! She shakes her head a little bit as she finishes the giggle as Amy declares she's a woman! Miho nods her head a bit. "Yup! And magic is weird. So I'm...wait, what the?! I missed what now? Headplosion moment! I didn't know I needed something in my life until you said something. Pics, or it never happend!", she declares. What is Miho going on about. "Izou in a dress?! I have money...Or at least I can try to get the Mahou express card...", she says. Miho's brain is very distracted at the moment at the thought of Izou in a wedding dress. It fits in her head...Lets not go into what goes on it that brain. "Yeah, my friends in Kyoto were kinda confused when I talked about the wedding, and regretting not going. They asked who was watching Tokyo when it happend? What if a youma attacked while everyone was on the moon? Who was protecting Tokyo?", she says. The woman shakes her head a bit. "But...thats old stuff, and brings up a few memories I rather not relive.", she admits. Miho takes this long moment to try to picture Izou in a dress. There might be a tiny bit of drool for a second before she shakes her head. "Sorry. And yes, it makes it more clear. And why do I have the image of Mamoru in a dress, and Usagi in a tux in my mind now...Gah, now I have the top 5 bois in dresses in my mind...I can't unsee it!", she says. "Sorry, we're trying to have a serious discussion, and my mind is stuck on boys and dresses."
Amy Faust	Amy blinks. Miho missed what? Oh... Amy's turn to giggle. "Hey now, I'm not Nabiki Tendo... I'm sure if you ask, um... well ''someone'' more organized than me knows who has the wedding photos. Usagi or Mamoru would know anyway! If you don't ask ''specifically'' for the ones of Izou, it won't give anything away!" She holds up a finger and winks. "Or, they might not care anyway. I think he wanted to make a splash and let people see him showing off, after all..." And her eyes widen as Miho talks about friends in Kyoto. "Wait, you have ''magical'' friends there? Plenty of us were still here, there's ''lots'' of Mahou in the Four Wards, after all." She can't help smirking a bit as Miho shares her mental images. "Wait, swapped with the disguise pen, or as they are?" Boysagi in a tux she can see, but Usagi doesn't seem like the kind of girl to pull off a tux. It's like imagining ''herself'' in one. "I guess you didn't get to see Mamoru as a girl, huh." She shrugs. "It's fine. I find it... interesting, others'... views on this stuff. I was raised... well, we ''thought'' we were liberal, accepted people being gay, was something ''I'' didn't feel I should be, though... and yet, crossdressing? The media was very clear on what a joke it was. So I never... I never tried it, and, I... how do I put this..." She shrugs. "I accept it now, and I'm slowly better understanding the idea of people who want to be less gender-conforming even if they're ''not'' trans or something, but it's just... wild, seeing how readily you all accept it, just as the... like just as your default state. You weren't taught it's disgusting and repulsive and ridiculous and then had to overcome that." She blinks. "Huh. Kinda like the lesbian thing in reverse, now that I think of it."
Miho Inada	Miho nods her head a bit. "There's mahou all over the place. We just got very good at hiding ourselves in public. Think about it. I mean, arn't you American? And well, there were mahou in Paris, correct?", she asks. "And there's Kureha. She's from Kyoto as much as I am. I knew her as being very very sickly growing up.", the girl points out. She shakes her head a little bit as she thinks back. "Yeah, one of my best friends in Kyoto, she might be on the bad side of mahou. She tends to call mahou, sparkles, and Mamoru told me thats something that the other side calls the good girls?", Miho says. She shakes her head. "I guess that makes me a sparkle if I think about it.", Miho says, shaking her head a bit. "And I totally forgot about the disguise pen. That pen changes so many thoughts. Gah, my head hurts just thinking about it.", she says. The girl shakes her head a bit as she relaxes a bit. "Well, think on this, Amy. We live in a different world compared to years ago. And whose Nabiki Tendo?", Miho asks. She thinks if there's a student named Tendo somewhere in the school. She doesn't recall that name in her classes... "I...wasn't paying attention when he changed during his song. Slightly distracted by the very cute guy who was getting ready for his song after Mamoru's Disney moment.", she winks.
Amy Faust	Amy blinks at Miho's assertion. "There... may be, yeah, we even had a group of Puella Magi from Germany visit a couple years back, but." She shakes her head. "All the world's magic is mostly concentrated in Tokyo, Paris, and Seattle. Someone ''did'' something that changed it to be like that, and we're not sure what, since magic is kind of hard to study." "Also, Kyubey didn't come to me in America, and he didn't come to me here even three years ago, he came to me ''two'' years ago, when suddenly mahou started popping up left and right. Inai-sensei said that even like... six or so years ago, there were maybe a dozen mahou in ''all of Tokyo.''" Amy finishes her explanation, and then tries to remember what they were talking about. "Oh uh... huh. Well, I don't know if sparkle is ''universally'' a term, but I think like, Hinoiri started using it when she was a villain, or someone did around then, and it kinda spread around to some of the other local villains and stuck?" Amy shrugs. "We've considered 'do you sparkle?' as a sort of codephrase to check if someone is magical, but also it sounds a little bit like maybe we're asking if someone is gay with slang they haven't heard yet." Amy giggles as Miho says she forgot about the pen and it changes everything. "She's an anime character who uh... is always finding ways to make money from a situation. Including selling such pictures of her sister and sister's fiance to someone interested." "He didn't change during his song, he sang Ursula's whole number as a guy. And did it ''amazingly.''" Amy holds a hand to her chin. "And I think, what the disguise pen changes... it doesn't change as much as you think. In English, we use the term gendaa bendingu, but it doesn't change ''gender identity''," she points at her head, "gender's in your head. Aino-san as an ikemen... That 'guy' doesn't really exist, he's just a costume, right? I mean, unless she's genderfluid or bigender or something, I dunno..." "Which like, yeah, I guess it's like the guys in those otome games, right? You can find them hot, ''lots'' of people do, but they're not real, either. That said, um..." "Playing around with such things... can teach people about themselves, or show different sides to them. It ''could'' even be instrumental in figuring out their identity, sure was for me. And um, it can teach us about society, and how we treat eachother and see things, and..." She tries to think.
Miho Inada	Miho finishes her tea as she listens to Amy. The woman thinks about a few things before she leans back. "While I don't know too much about us Old Bloods, I think a lot of the clans that are very friendly with each other, we're mahou. Just not active. Kureha had talked about it was odd for two of us to be active at the same time. Especially given our natures. Her being fire and Oni, and I'm ice and Yuki-onna.", Miho states. "I don't think I would feel...right about using the pen like that. Then again, its mostly cause I havn't used it. And they're real...In the zone-ish...Remind me to not use the Zone for those games though. As the Zone seems to mess with people's heads. And I can see the Zone really messing with me, using an Otome game.", she says.
Amy Faust	Amy blinks. "When you say 'not active', do you mean, they were once and Faded, or they still remember but they're not fighting monsters now?" "Hmm... if you don't mind my asking, can you think about why, ''specifically'', it feels wrong? There are a lot of different potential answers, I think... And if the Zone could use videogames... hmm. That ''does'' sound potentually troublesome. Although, being kinda ace, I don't really get how... hmmm." She shakes her head. "No, I think I figured out ''part'' of it, but I guess I have trouble connecting to how just seeing or talking to someone attractive feels like an offer, an opportunity, to get what you, uh, 'desire.'" But also, what she was just talking on has percolated in her head a little. How can she put this... "The thing about TSF... is like, there's differences between guys and girls and everyone kinda knows it, but also we have a lot in common too, and there's a huge amount of different experiences and expressions ''within'' those labels. And that's not even getting into nonbinary experiences outside of those or partially outside or a mix or, though I'm not the one to speak on that." "And it's a difference people coexist with in any walk of life, in any culture. What the gender roles ''are'' might differ from culture to culture -- seriously, no one can explain to me why mangakas think eating sweet things in a café is a girl thing -- but there tend to ''be'' gender roles and stereotypes and how you fit into or don't fit into them is part of how you interact with society, it's part of how you live your life." "So, so like... if that ''changes''... Like, if I woke up with a guy's body tomorrow, if I and everyone else acted as if it made no more difference than wearing a different color shirt, or something... it wouldn't really matter, would it? But, people seeing me as a guy and treating me like one... that's what I dread." Amy thinks back. "There's been a couple of times I told my backstory to people and they immediately go 'oh, well would you like help changing back?' and the what-if of it feels icky but more immediate and wrong is knowing they see me, right here and now, as a guy, ''despite'' the body, and ugh." She shivers. "I dunno if that or the body would be the worse part. ... no, on second thought, I guess that's ''worse.''" She starts pacing back and forth on the roof. "A lot of people have strong feelings like that, though they've never had to think about it. So, gender affects us in ''so many ways'', and one little change touches on ''all of this'', and more, like questions about the relationship between mind and body..." She turns to Miho and spreads out her arms, "That's uh, um, I guess why it's so interesting, and I want to share that and those feels, but like... I guess maybe people using the pen doesn't ''really'' touch on that all that much, though it ''could.''" She scratches her head and looks away awkwardly. "Sorry for uh, rambling. I... I just want to ''share'' my experiences, and connect with and understand people, and, and so I get a little excited whenever people like, touch on the subject and maybe have an interest and I hope they could ''see''... uhh, sorry."
Miho Inada	"I mean, like there's a lot of clans in Kyoto that were created around the same time. And very closely connected. Like Kureha's family and mine. There's other clans that were created very close to ours, and we're all very friendly with each other in terms we respect each other.", Miho explains. "But like, in terms of things, like if there's an Onihime whose magically active, then typically, there's usually not another 'hime' around. For two of us to be active at once, it might be a sign of whats going on.", she points out. Miho leans over, and hugs Amy. She gives her a cheek kiss. "You're speaking what's on your mind. There's nothing wrong with that. I mean, think about this. I spent years training with boys in beating people up. I mean, there's the difference, and there's what we have in common. My world is kinda colored by that.", she tells. The woman scratches the back of her head. "I can't quite put it into words.", the mahou says.
Amy Faust	Amy listens curiously. And nods at the thing about two hime being unusual. "Yeah, that makes sense." She blushes a little and ''smiles'' at the cheek kiss, and hugs Miho back. And nods. "It's... hard to put into words, some things. Thanks for listening and understanding. So... something about those boys you trained with... using the pen feels off because then you'd be more like them in ways you're not?"
Miho Inada	Miho nods her head a bit as she thinks about it. "Yeah. Its like, obviously, I can't go running around without a shirt on. I mean...", she makes a motion towards her chest. "But you've seen that I'm not afraid to show my body. Not like that, but I mean, like I'll wear a sports bra, and run in the morning.", she tells. "And that feels natural. Just like the guys who run without a shirt on.", she says. "Like think about running around without a shirt on...", she points out. "Though I ran with them for years, it would feel...awkward.", she tells. "Or practicing. Guys don't wear shirts, and while wearing some tight undies, they have something there to protect something that we don't have to worry about, but we don't wear our fight clothes that tight for...reasons.", she says.
Amy Faust	Amy giggles at 'well, obviously I can't go running around without a shirt on'. "Heck, even if not for the nudity taboo, running without a bra is a mistake..." She grimaces at the memory of forgetting that a couple of times. And then listens intently, and nods at the bit about feeling natural. And then Miho goes on. "Yeah, before I'd definitely be still wearing a shirt doing that sort of thing, even if others didn't..." She chuckles a little at whether one needs to worry about a sensitive target or suggestive shapes. "Actually, uh... one girl I told ''did'' warn me you still don't wanna get kicked there, even if I've been lucky so far..." And then she looks serious. "Still a lot of sensitive tissue, and -- I read on the internet -- there is a much smaller target but twice as many nerves, or was it three times? So uh, ''yeah'', we do not have immunity to crotch shots. Prooobably something they should teach you in martial arts..." "Anyway, uh... oh yeah. I hated showing my body before, and there's... Maybe a little bit lingering of that, or maybe I just, am not the type to wanna flaunt it? But..." She grins. "The nice part about this whole deal? /Perfect body/. Uh," she blushes a bit and looks away, "For me, I mean... obviously, everyone has different preferences..." "But like, exactly. I'm not ''ashamed'', and if there ''were'' some wardrobe malfunction... imagining that, like, I would feel the embarassment of accidentally breaking a taboo, sure. But there isn't the same, 'oh god everyone saw how ugly and repulsive I am ugh' feeling there was before."
Miho Inada	"Its about three times, I think, but its not an area we typically aim for. On guys, different story. But its a vital area. Its kinda like one of those areas you just don't aim for unless you're in real trouble. Kinda like throat strikes.", she points out. "The tiny bone in the throat, and how it could choke you if it gets hit.", Miho says. The girl takes a deep breath for a long moment. "But, its just the natural thing. Like I'm still adjusting to magic, even though its been a year. And I'm going to be trying to help out with things more now. I'm a bit nervous about that, since well, I'm still learning things myself.", she tells. "But I can't let everyone else protect me, and not do anything.", she tells. The girl sighs a bit. "I kinda promised to step up a little bit. That's why I want to do a witch hunt. One thing is that I just...can't let a witch suffer.", she tells. Hmmm? "I mean, in a sense, a witch is a mahou who needs help. You'll probably think that I'm being soft hearted, but if you witch'd out, I will be one of the first ones there. And I will figure out a way to save you. Period. I know you all say its impossible, but think about a year ago. What would you say about somebody using snow and ice to make animals to attack youma? Or turning to snow to teleport?", she asks. "Either way, to answer the question earlier. Yeah, its just...Its who I am. Even though its a costume, it would be awkward. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the pen cause I haven't used it. Its kind of like this, I spent most of my life training. You said perfect body for you, that's how it is with me. I worked hard to train my body. Mahous get a lot of shortcuts, but I still work hard to improve myself and my body. The pen...it feels like I'm masking all my work. No offense.", she says.
Amy Faust	Oh okay it was ''not'' a fact skipped over because of adults being weird about teaching about bodies, good. Amy just says 'oh' and nods. She nods along at not being able to stand just being protected. And at not wanting to let a Witch suffer -- Amy ''immediately'' gets it. "Yeah... what? No, why would I think it's bad you want to help Witches? Me, too, I was really hoping Gretchen was on to something with X-Paradise but it didn't work out..." I ''will'' save you. Period. Amy feels a twinge in her chest and looks away. "Thank you. That means a lot, that... that I'm worth it. Just... don't get killed in the attempt." She wonders how many Puella Magi have seen their friends turn into Witches and tried to save them. "If you have to, kill me and bring my grief seed to Madoka." Her eyes water and a tear runs down her cheek. "You'll end my suffering and give me some moments of peace before I move on, then. That's more than most Witches will get, or have gotten, across the world. And at least I'll know no one got killed for my sake." She pulls a tissue from her skirt pocket and dabs at her face, blows her nose, repockets it to toss in a trash can later. As for masking hard work... Any glances back to Miho, then away, nodding. "That makes sense. You have a body you like... and that you worked for and didn't get handed with a wish." She shakes her head and looks back to Miho. "I'm not offended at all. Although I'm not sure that it's ''really'' masking your work, at least, when done for a short time in a context like that, but... Like, I'm not gonna force it." She smiles. "Besides, you're cuter this way." She steps forward to hug her. "And thanks. For showing concern for me, and for all those other Puella Magi. If I hear of a way and need help getting it, I'll give you a call."
Miho Inada	Miho takes a very long moment before returning the hug. She then holds Amy, and looks her in the eyes. "Maybe my Japanese was not very clear.", the mahou says. Miho takes a moment to breathe in, then out a second. She looks at Amy, and says again, but in English. "I will save you. That is beyond question.", Miho declares. She switches back to Japanese, sucking in a breath. "I...refuse to kill somebody with my magic.", the girl tells Amy. "The Zone picks up on that, and minions are human in appearance. I know it sounds silly, but I just can't attack people with my magic.", she tells. "That's why I panic when I fight in the Zone. Cause I know that if I don't attack, the minions would kill others. Which means I killed people by not acting...Which scares me.", Miho admits. Miho continues to hold Amy, not letting go. "I won't let you kill anyone, and I won't let anything hurt you. I'll figure something out.", she says. Her eyes are very hard, and detrimined. "So do /NOT/ ask me to kill you.", she growls a bit. There's a shiver there, and Miho's magatama flashes from jade green to ice blue a few times. Then Miho winces a bit. "I'll...save you...", she says, grimancing a bit. Miho lets got of Amy a bit, holding her head a bit. She's breathing very heavily. The ice mahou leans back against the wall, trying to steady herself. Miho watches Amy a moment. "So...please...don't...talk like your...life...is over.", the girl says. Miho's eyes seem unfocused. She looks down a bit, holding her head a bit. She's trying to her hardest to focus on Amy...
Amy Faust	Amy looks anxious, when Miho's looking into her eyes. After the phrase in English, she looks away. She refuses to kill? "Witches aren't people anymore. Like Wiseman... no, they can become people again, nevermind. In theory I mean." While she's deciding what to say, Miho holds her like that, and... It's really nice? It always is when someone does that, and Miho keeps holding her, and it's hard to think of how to respond to further words when she wants to analyze this feeling and remember it and hold onto it-- don't...talk like your...life...is over. Amy startles and looks at Miho in alarm. "Oh my gosh, no, I meant, ''if'' I Witch! I might not, the way things are going I might even say I ''probably'' won't!" "A-and... while I have some... concerns about if I can really... go out into the world after all this, and do all that normal college-age exploration stuff and find a career... even if I'm a shut-in except when I meet with you guys, that's far from like, I'm not expecting to ''die!''" She looks away, "...I guess I kind of was, when I started. Once I saw what I'd signed up to fight..." She looks back to Miho, "but we just keep beating the odds, against Witches and far worse than Witches!" "The bigger concern is the Fade. And it's so many unknowns. So many people want to stop it. We don't even know if it ''affects'' puella magi. And... maybe it's not as bad as I fear even if it happens, maybe I just become, who I would've been without a lifetime of baggage. ''More'' me, rather than less." She hugs Miho back. "I'm sorry I gave you that impression. I'd be lying if I said I ''didn't'' feel doomed during some of the past couple years, or if I said I was ''totally'' over it, but... things have only been getting better." "Thank you. For your concern, and for pledging to save me if needed." She leans in to attempt a quick peck on the cheek. "I hope I can..." Be worth it? Be worthy? For once, she can hear how that sounds ''before'' the words are out of her mouth. So she just says, "Thank you," again, and looks away, smiling and cheeks blushing a bit as she quietly adds, "That felt really nice. The... being held..." And then she notices Miho seemed a bit unsteady just now and her expression changes to one of concern. "Are you okay? ...Is it another headache...?"
Miho Inada	Miho sucks in a breath, and tries to say something. It gets stuck there as she starts to shiver a bit more now. The girl hugs herself, as if trying to keep something in. "Can't let...people get hurt cause of me.", she whimpers. The girl seems a bit out of it at the moment. "Even if...people...say its impossible. I have to do it...", she says. The girl whimpers a bit, holding her head a bit. "I...have to...save them.", the mahou says as she holds her head. "Has...to...be something...I can...do.", she winces. Miho seems to shrink down a little bit. She's been pressuring herself so much to make herself better. "Have to save them....Have to protect my friends....", she tells. The girl falls into Amy. "I have to do it...Have to...do it...", she says before passing out in Amy's arms. Yeah, she's been pushing herself hard lately...
Amy Faust	Amy looks increasingly concerned, and hugs Miho more tightly. "You don't have to." "No I mean--" she realizes how that sounds, "--You can't spend all your time worrying about that. There's a... balance, to life, to figure out. If you endlessly stress about how to save the world, about how to change how soul gems or the Fade work... you can't do ''everything'' and you don't have to. That's... you have friends, and allies, and comrades-in-arms, so many, and ''none'' of us can do all of it alone." "It's like... Are you gonna be the one who figures out how to do all of those things? Probably not. But whenever someone ''does'' figure out how and need help doing it? You'll be there. And when ''you'' figure something out that needs doing, ''we'll'' be there. And..." She gives a little sigh. "...We don't all have to be the geniuses who figure out the, the magic science stuff. Telling yourself 'if I could just think smart enough I'd save the world' and feeling like you're failing to meet that standard..." "At best you'll stress yourself out and miss the things you ''can'' do to make your and others' lives better right in front of you. At worst you'll start a cult and, if you ''really'' believe you're the one best-suited to fix everything, end up killing people." She lets go, takes a step back, puts her hands on Miho's shoulders. "We'll save ''eachother'', all of us, in whatever ways we need saving. We turned Veronica back from a cat. We stopped the Black Moon Clan and let Chibiusa see her parents again and saved ''both'' our worlds. We snatched Molly away from Seriss Nyx, and when we figure out how to get that bitch ''out'' of Molly's body we'll get Molly her life back, and that's ''just this year.''"
Miho Inada	Miho blacked out for a few seconds, but came back in time to hear Amy speak. The woman holds her head a bit, and winces a bit. "Th-thanks.", she says. "I...I'm fine now.", the mahou says. She shakes her head a bit as she tries to get her balance back while holding onto Amy. "And I'm past stressed out, but I feel like there's something...just...right outside my reach. I keep trying to get to it, and it has answers, but its just past my fingertips.", she tells. The girl sighs a bit. "I know what you're saying is right, but I can't just sit still. I've done that for months. I have to do something. I see too many of us getting hurt or worse. And I'm just...standing here.", she says.
Amy Faust	Amy looks ''more'' concerned. When Miho is having trouble standing, Amy holds on, and plants another peck on her forehead and then helps her stand up straight. "It's usually an illusion. Chasing that feeling day after day, telling yourself there's this one answer if you could just..." She keeps one arm around Miho and lets go with the other to reach towards the sky and grab empty air. "If you haven't found it after reaching this long, you need to rest. I don't mean do ''nothing.'' Just... rest from that straining and reaching, and in the meantime?" "Just show up. I... I always thought I was the smart one. That I'd ''figure things out''. That if I ever got magic I'd be, well, the Mizuno-san, the Rashmi, the Hinoiri, the Entrapta, sciencing the shit out of this and making amazing discoveries about all this. And I don't know if it just turns out I'm bad at it, or if I felt I was failing to figure out how to save the world for so long that I'm ''still'' recovering, but I haven't done any of that. And you know what?" "People still love me. People still want me around, people are still glad to have my help. ''Just show up.''" "You were away for a bit, that's all. And you came back during a slow period that we honestly kinda need after Chibiusa and Usagi turned evil, finally got purified at the wedding, and then a bunch of us got yanked into an alternate universe for a week and came back only to fight the Black Moon Clan and get yanked into the ''future'' and save it and come back and ''Seriss'' has been doing ''bullshit'' the ''whole time'' and there was ''dream stuff'' and..." Amy takes a breath and smiles. "Don't worry. There'll be plenty to do soon enough. If you can't figure out how to move things forward right now... chill, and just show up to fight evil when you can, alright?" "...Also, have you talked to Setsuna-- to Nurse Meiou about uh... this?"
Miho Inada	Miho shakes her head a little bit. "Not really.", she says. "Been too busy with things. Just been so busy doing things to distract me.", she admits. The mahou sighs a little bit as she settles into Amy. "See, you've been doing things while I've been trying to figure out how to save you and Molly.", she says. The girl sighs a bit. "I just...I don't know what to do. I'm getting restless, and edgy.", she admits. "While everyone else is doing stuff...I just stand around.", she tells. "I have to do something.", Miho admits. She feels a bit of guilt for not helping out for so long.
Amy Faust	"You ''were'' though! You showed up to Walpurgisnacht, and that manta ray monster thing, and other stuff! You had to go home this summer, OK, but there will be more..." She sighs and pats Miho on the back. "Try not to stress. Don't worry, you're a mahou, trouble ''will'' find you. And you'll be ready to fight it, with your friends at your side." "Also... please see Setsuna about those headaches or dizzy spells or whatever's going on. You can't fight your best when the time comes if you just let possible medical issues get worst. Taking care of yourself ''is'' helping us -- we're not gonna have to fight some stress akuma you turn into, or worry about you ending up in a hospital, then we can fight better and you can fight with us, you know?"
Miho Inada	Miho nods her head a bit as she listens in. She sighs a bit as she stretches out. "I think its just the stress, as well as something magical. Been having some odd dreams anyways. if it gets worse, I'll go see the Nurse.", she tells Amy. "Or Mamoru.", she tells. The girl takes a moment to adjust her skirt. There's a familiar ringing before Miho blinks a little bit. "Umm, how long have we been up here?", she asks. The girl blinks, and realizes...Lunch si over! She leans over, and steals a quick kiss from Amy. She blushes a bit. "Sorry to have worried ya.", she says. "Just...don't do anything....Ok, nevermind. We're Mahou. Its in our nature to do stupid dangerous stuff. We can't help but to do it.", Miho says as she runs off to class. "Catch up with ya later!"