First Silence ♄ Phone ♄ Action

[glaives]

[Open]

I'd like to help people, if I can. It's not much, but I can heal minor wounds, and I could try and help those with more major ones, even if it's just enough to make it not fatal. So please, if you need help, call me... I'm Hotaru Tomoe, and I live at 1665 Nelson Street. I'll do my best to help you!

Also... Has anyone seen a woman called Madame Foster? She lives with me, and I haven't seen her...

[Filtered to Usagi]

Usagi-san? Are you all right? Are you safe?

[Action; Shops--> 1665 Nelson Street]

[Later in the afternoon, Hotaru can be found at the local shops, trying to stock up on supplies to both help people's injuries, as well as food, with things that will be easily cooked. With Madame Foster missing she's taken it upon herself to take care of dinner.

Or you can catch her on her way home, arms full of groceries and her feet quick. What if someone's waiting at her house after all.]

[Action; 1667 Nelson Street]

[But as soon as she gets Usagi's note she'll be banging on the front door, trying not to freak out too much. It can't be true, it has to be a lie, Usagi can't be dead.Can't be.]

Usagi-san! Usagi-san! Please, Usagi-san I need to talk to you.

[And she'll keep banging until she gets some sort of answer. Or someone drags her away, because no body's going to open that door, and it doesn't help that she can feel herself start to tear up with each passing second that she gets no response.]

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[eternalfuture]

[Usagi won't answer; by now, she's dead, thanks to the injuries she took on the first day of Milkfield. But she has left a letter in Hotaru's mailbox, in her familiar messy writing:

Hotaru-chan,

I'm sorry I couldn't protect you from everything in this town. You're important to me, and I should have done more.

Don't worry about me. I'll be there every time you look up at the moon.

Love,

Usagi

She's also signed it with a bunny drawing.]

Action - last one

[romanovs]

[Strong arms will wrap around her and pull her away from the door. He cannot let a little girl ruin her hands liek this.]

[glaives]

No! [And Hotaru struggles, as much a petite 13 year old girl can. She doesn't care that her hands ache, that her knuckles are red and raw, that she's half blinded by tears. She needs to find Usagi, needs to make sure that the letter was a lie] I have to help Usagi-san!

[romanovs]

What is happening to her that you need to help her?

[If necessary, he will break the door open, no problem.]

[glaives]

[Hotaru stills, wordless pulling out the note Usagi wrote for before her brain clicks in that it's written in kanji, and the chances of this man being able to read it...

voice shaky, she gives him the basics] Usagi-san put this in my mailbox... she said she's sorry she couldn't protect me, and that she'd be there whenever I looked at the moon.

... I think it means she may have been injured and that it's very serious...

[romanovs]

[He looks at her for a few moments and then nods

and takes a step back to throw himself against the door. Let's see if he can break it open.]

You should get to your friend, little one.

[ voice ]

[vedaandme]

Madame Foster? What does she look like? I believe there had been such a woman at the recovery room I was in yesterday.

[He sounded... cheerful?]

[ voice ]

[glaives]

She's quite tiny, with very thick glasses and she wears her hair in a bun.

...Recovery room? What happened to Foster-san!

Re: [ voice ]

[vedaandme]

Well, there had been some experiments yesterday. I do remember someone like her in the recovery room. She had rabbit ears.

[glaives]

What kind of experiments? … Aside for ears did Foster-san look okay? [She pauses, the next bit sounding a bit embarrassed] I'm sorry I'm asking so many questions, I'm just worried about her...

[vedaandme]

She seemed to be? Then again, I am uncertain as to her exact appearance before the surgery... I do apologize. [He was starting to lose the cheery part of his tone. Almost like... he felt really sad about not knowing more.]

[glaives]

Well... she's very small, wears glasses... but looks very much like a normal grandmother. [Frowning so much, silently, before she starts] Ah! It's okay, you've helped a lot, thank you.

[vedaandme]

Yes. That would be her. Though, she does not look like a normal grandmother anymore.

[He paused, considering.]

We were released 24 hours after reawakening.

[glaives]

I see. Is there anything noticeable besides the ears?

[Pauses herself]

And she isn't home yet... I shall go look for her then.

Thank you very much.

[vedaandme]

Um... I do not remember very clearly. There were a lot of people in the room. [Though, he sounded rather cheerful either way.] And, Hiling and I left rather quickly.

I am glad I was able to help a little, though.