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[you_will_suffer]

[A figure stumbles from the docks, dressed in black. They are incredibly pale, the black strands of their hair sticking to their cheeks and neck. The heat is not their friend and the sudden change in circumstances isn't helping.]

Where...is this? [Akito runs a hand through their hair, dropping onto the nearest bench available.] I am Akito Sohma. If I have been kidnapped, I demand to know the reason why.

[It really is hard to tell their gender. At first glance, one would think boy, but that can be misleading. Their voice is feminine, but low. Or maybe they are projecting it lower on purpose.]

Tell me.

Comments

Re: [Video]

[enchantinglily]

Yes and no. There are always those that consider my kind precious, and those that have considered not what I am, but my magic a curse when they don't know what I am. Then there are others whose greed consumes them. I've met a mix of all kinds. Here though, people are far more open then those I knew back home.

[Video]

[you_will_suffer]

You make this place sound like a fairy-tale. [Their voice is dry.] People always hate what they don't understand. They lash out at it and condemn it. That is natural.

Re: [Video]

[enchantinglily]

I wouldn’t call it a fairy tale either. And I wouldn’t say always. There are always those willing to accept such things as well.

[Video]

[you_will_suffer]

And what becomes of you when someone cuts off your horn? [Taking risks has consequences and all of them hurt.]

Re: [Video]

[enchantinglily]

I care not to find out.

[Video]

[you_will_suffer]

How do you protect yourself?

Re: [Video]

[enchantinglily]

I haven't needed to protect myself here, but I have my horn, my hooves, and my magic.

[Video]

[you_will_suffer]

But you said you have healing magic; not defensive magic. [Akito is just being difficult.]

Re: [Video]

[enchantinglily]

[They can be difficult. Lily can understand it under the circumstances to be honest.]

I can call on nature if I need to, but I prefer not to fight if I don't absolutely have to to survive.

Do you have a kind of magic, Akito? You didn't seem surprised by my mention of magic so much as by what I was.

[Video]

[you_will_suffer]

[This is where they should cut contact. Akito glowers, considering their options. Should they yell and scare Lily away from the topic?]

...it's...

[Personal. Something to be hidden and coveted.]

My business.

Re: [Video]

[enchantinglily]

[Lily's assuming that reaction is a yes of some kind, but she's not about to push the topic too hard.]

You'll find there are quite a few people here with various abilities and magics. I'm far from the only one.

[Though she was the only unicorn.]

[Video]

[you_will_suffer]

[The curse won't do them any good; any power they possess is over the other members of the Zodiac.]

It doesn't matter. [But the topic does need to be broached.] Have you spoken to a girl named Tohru Honda?

Re: [Video]

[enchantinglily]

[She shook her head.]

No, I haven't. But there are so many people here I'm bound not to know them all.

[Video]

[you_will_suffer]

[Then the secret is probably safe. For the time being.]

She is the only one I recognize.

Re: [Video]

[enchantinglily]

And she's here?

[Video]

[you_will_suffer]

Obviously.

Re: [Video]

[enchantinglily]

[Hey, she didn't need the attitude. She can give it right back a bit.]

Hey, I don't read minds, you know.

Either way, isn't it good that there's someone here that you recognize?

[Video]

[you_will_suffer]

[Akito could smash something to a thousand pieces and then...

No, they don't have the energy for that.]

Don't be ignorant.

Re: [Video]

[enchantinglily]

I take it it's someone you don't like?

[Video]

[you_will_suffer]

She is a gorgon. Does anyone like gorgons?

Re: [Video]

[enchantinglily]

Having never met a gorgon, but knowing their reputation, I don't know.

[Video]

[you_will_suffer]

I suppose monsters like other monsters. [It's easy to put everyone in categories. Then they don't have to worry about their heart being tampered with or broken.]

Re: [Video]

[enchantinglily]

Those that look like monsters tend not to be the monsters in the world.

[Video]

[you_will_suffer]

So she found a world just for her. How sweet. [The real monster is Akito, of course.]

Re: [Video]

[enchantinglily]

[Lily doesn't know Akito well enough to say that yet either, but she wants to believe in the good in everyone if she can.]

And what are you Akito? Are you a monster or not? I told you before, you have a new start here and can be who you want to be. Decide what you want to do wisely.