Golden Age: Revival

*Allina takes a few sodas and offers Mimiru, Taiyo and then Ari, who I assume is sitting in the passenger seat next to Thiera. He looks at her like "Go away."*

"Well, let's find that out, then."

N"Yeah, THIS time. Did you catch Allina's brain parasite?"
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<Believe it or not, the one now apparently known as "Miss Brain Parasite," will be the key to this operation's success.>
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<How do you suggest we do that?>

"Hm... We could use the police" Kyoujin suggested, but had clearly not fully thought it through herself, "...tip them off about a murderer or something, give her description and wait to see if she's found... Hmm..."

"We did spend a bit of time in close quarters with her, so it's possible it may have spread to all of us."

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*Taiyo hesitantly takes the can, Mimiru relucatantly taking the one offered to her.*

"That doesn't inspire a lot of confidence. This won't rot our insides if we drink it, will it?"

Allina: <I will stab you.>

<They're JUST sodas. You heard the dead wizard. "Make a mirage solid." That clearly involves light magic.>
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N"Now shut up & follow me."

*He walks off towards the park.*
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<But...the police are ALREADY looking for her. A missing person case was filed.>

[I must be doing something wrong with my life if I'm being ordered around by a pseudo-vampire.]

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*Holding it away from herself, Mimiru opens the tab then waits expecting it to explode.*

Allina: <What makes you think I'll help you?>

<You're in the middle of the desert & I have control over your food, water, transportation, & atmospheric temperature. Really, you're making this so much harder than it has to be. I have a mini-bar stocked with your preferred drinks, for God's sake.>

*The can lets out a little his as it's opened.*
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*They find Roatha at the park squaring off with a duck who has his sword & is holding it over a river menacingly. He's backing away, holding his hands up in a gesture of surrender.*

R"What the fuck is your problem, duck!?"

Allina: <Fine, but if you think you're using me for evil deeds, you're mighty mistaken.>

"Wow. That is a vicious duck."

[Or Roatha's just something of a pansyass. Both are likely.]

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"(This is the part where she tells you to get out and makes you walk to Cairo.)"

Taiyo:<But this isn't orange juice.>

"Oh... yeah" Kyoujin sighed, "Ah well... I'm gonna go in for another swim to clear my head."
She stood up, letting the towel fall off onto the seat, revealing her well-endowed chest and hourglass curves.
Padding back over to the side of the pool, she mused aloud- "What do you suppose this Nobunga guy actually wants? Hm... do you think anything he was could have been true? This is very sudden..."
With that, she dived into the water.

<Well, Taiyo, I guess you shouldn't lie on surveys.>
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<I don't know. I'm not an emperor.>
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*The duck drops the sword into the river.*

R"Ugh. Fuck you, duck."

*He turns to face them.*

R"What do you want?"

*Azuma pushes Nero forward.*

"It was your plan."

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Taiyo:<What?>

A woman with short, chestnut hair, opened the door of her car and stepped out. She looked up at a big sign on the outside of the building she had stopped at that said "Australian Federal Police" and sighed.

She had been too long without control of her own life and had enough of running from her past. She was sick of it.
She decided that once and for all, rather than evade the police, she would go to them.

Luna Seppun took a deep breath and walked through the front door.

*One sitting at a desk looks up.*

<Hey, John! We found that missing girl!>
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N"You're not helping. Are you still mad?"

R"I slept. On a bench."

N"Right, right, & I guess your plans to rent a place with Euryale are probably falling apart, too. How do you plan to get that thing back, by the way?"

R"I'd say you could have it if I didn't think I'd need it to ward off crazy vampire assassins, or some such shit. I'm sick of being used as a supernatural taxi service. As it stands, I don't know. I can't swim."
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<Never mind that. Just be on the lookout for anything that looks like it shouldn't be there.>

"Of course I'm not helping. It's probably not that deep."

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"That could be anything."

Luna just stared blankly at the person behind the desk.

<That would be the point.>
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R"I'll drown in anything over 5 feet."
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<Okay, lady, would you mind answering some questions for us?>

"Pretty sure it's not that deep."

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"Well, it could be that oasis, that camel, what appears to be you commiting ritual suicide or whatever else that may or may not be there."

"...Questions?" Luna felt a small chill up her spine, "...Sure..."

<Okay. Why did you decide to disappear all of this time, & where have you been?>
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R"Then why don't you jump in & test that theory?"
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<Should a girl your age really be playing pretend?>

"Because it's a gross pond in a gross park. Also this is Australia those ducks are probably poisonous. You should see a doctor just in case."

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"Imagination is always a good thing to have no matter what age you are. There's a-"

Taiyo:<Big cat thing.>

Ari: [I want.... I need to know whose side I should be on. They really don't seem evil, and Thiera... she acts very suspiciously.]

Allina: <Hey rich lady, who's the dude? [It's actually surprising Mimiru didn't try to kill him yet, considering what happened back at Thiera's office.]