"Ok, that we know, now how do we help her?" Raph asks, all business now, he and HLM were pretty close.
Zoi sighs softly leaning back into Kunzy's arms, she was getting pretty big with child.
"Good question..." Diana sighs and leans back, seeming to deflate a little, Jae putting his arms around her and holding her close.
"What could the mist she was lost in be?" Kunz asks.
"It looked a bit like Sailor Mercury's illusion bubbles," Neph puts in.
"Perhaps this shadow is trying to confuse her to weaken her because it doesn't have total control over all her powers," Diana thinks aloud.
"But is she still somewhere in her mind or somewhere else?" Jae asks, absentmindedly tracing patterns on one of Diana's thighs with one of his fingers.
"Yes, she could be anywhere from within the shadow to the astral plane, she could even be in the boundary to this world or the next, or her own subconscious, almost anywhere," Venus points out, leaning into Leo's arms.
Raph pounds his fist into a table that comes close to collapse in frustration. "How the hell are we gonna help her?! Talkin' is jus' bringin' up more questions!" he bellows.
"Dude, calm down," Mike says, "we'll find a way to help her!"
"Leonardo and I can check the astral plane," Venus says in her gentle voice.
"I will see if I can get anything else out of the stars."
"Perhaps the Tokyo library will have something..." Diana starts, and quickly changes the end of that sentence as my body steps in, "on the anatomy of squid."
"Squid, love?" Jae telepaths to her.
"Uh...it's a fascinating subject? It was the first thing that leapt to mind..."
"You have a strange mind, beloved..."
"I'm going to marry you, aren't I?"
"...on the anatomy of squid," Diana finishes up the sentence she was in the middle of when we entered.
"Squid?"
Sushi anyone?
"Ewww!!"
Ew? I wasn't the one who tried to castrate myself.
"Shut up, fool, you're distracting me."
From what? Trying to get laid?
The shadow pushes me farther into the mists, and I hear as if from a great distance.
"Hai," Diana trails off.
"We're trying to get on this new gameshow...where....ah..." Jae starts.
"...you have to identify the type of seafood that they have listed and the hints are characteristics of the animal while it was still alive," Don finishes.
I smirk.
'Name That Fish!' And for 9 easy payments of 19.99, you can get the home board game version! Complete with real artificial fish and an inflatable bucket to put them in!
"Do you EVER shut up?!"
Nope.
"Ugh."
"Ok...I think I'll pass," the shadow makes my body say in a deadpan.
I however am laughing like crazy at the conversation.
"Will you stop that?!"
Why?! This is hysterical!
"All right...Diana, Jae, Kunz, Zoi and I'll head to the library," Don says.
The shadow makes my body walk over to Neph.
"And what are you doing now?" The shadow asks, trying to be flirtatious.
"Sorry, love," Neph sighs, I feel my heart breaking with that hope deprived sigh, "some unavoidable...business came up."
"Aww..."
Neph leans down and kisses my body's forehead, again I feel the touch, then he heads off.
TN links arms with my body and asks, "Would you like to join Mike, Raph and I in a trip to the skating rink?"
"Hmmm, I need to win these freaks over..."
I smirk.
Look in the mirror lately, dark Casper wannabe?
The shadow shoves me back into the mists again.
Hmph...
"Sure! You know I love skating!"
"Let's go then, dudette!"
We leave, get our skates and as soon as we're out on the floor, I comment, Oh! Did I mention I've never gone roller skating in my entire life?
At that one, I get
shoved so far into the mists, I can't find my way back.
Part XV
Part XVII
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