Tenth Song ♪♫ ((flirting curtsies to the thirteenth floor))

[heartmaestro]

 I - [phone]

A-Ah, hello everyone...have any of you ever received an empty package? At least, empty of any meaningful objects...mine only had a picture on it, a small white orb...but I have no idea what it means.

Is the picture not supposed to represent an immaterial thing being returned? I don't remember ever having anything of that nature...I'm so very confused...

II - [action, all around town]
[Still horribly confused about what's happened (and whatever a "light orb" might be), Kotomi tries to go through the rest of her day as normal as possible. She can be found virtually anywhere--at the school, at the grocery store, walking around, or at 728 Anderson, and all looks normal. Except, if you can sense that kinda thing, she seems to be radiating a large aura of magic, very pure and untainted magic, enough to make anyone who didn't know she had this sort of "power" (read: everyone) do a double-take.

She herself is blissfully unaware of any of this.]

Comments

[imoutos]

Ah-- no! I know y-you would never hurt anyone! So that's a-at least not something to worry about, y-you're much too nice for it..

the direction this is going...

[heartmaestro]

Maybe I have a hidden berserker mode?

horrible directions everywhere

[imoutos]

[ Nadeko might or might not be imagining this right now. ]

.. N-no way.. T-that'd be way too scary..

[heartmaestro]

But we truly don't know until it happens, right?

[imoutos]

But.. u-um.. s-sorry if this is r-rude to say, but maybe it'd already b-be too late then..

now I understand why you have so much fun with her derptude in Luceti...

[heartmaestro]

...so it's already happened? Nadeko-chan, are you just an illusion of my madness-driven mind in an attempt to reign control of my berserker form?

derptude is the best part of kotomi to play out, really..

[imoutos]

W-- w-w-wait! Did i-it already happen?! How did that happen? [ she's totally freaking out here.. ]

[heartmaestro]

I don't know. Perhaps we are all really dreaming or unconscious.

[imoutos]

B-but.. then how c-can I tell when I'm really awake or not..?

[heartmaestro]

Pinch yourself?

1 / 3

[imoutos]

[ ... ]

2 / 3

[imoutos]

O- .. ouch..

[imoutos]

...

I-I'm sorry, I don't know if it helped..

[heartmaestro]

Did it hurt? One is only supposed to hurt while in real life.

[imoutos]

It did hurt.. B-but why wouldn't it hurt in a dream..?

this wonderful insight brought to you by wikipedia

[heartmaestro]

Dreams are merely successions of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. They're not real, so no pain would occur.