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Post by Utaku Hisui on Feb 14, 2018 7:03:20 GMT -5
Hisui waves it aside.
"I'm Unicorn and a mother, Uetani-san. Hugs are an everyday occurrence for me. And I've comforted my fair share of distressed students. Including my own daughter."
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Post by Kakita Uetani on Feb 14, 2018 7:13:13 GMT -5
"Still. I am supposed to show you the best side of myself. I should not submit to a need for comfort in public"
She smiles though, and does not pull away
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Post by Utaku Hisui on Feb 14, 2018 7:23:09 GMT -5
"Uetani-san, if you cannot ask for comfort from a woman who may soon be your unofficial mother, then who can you ask?" She makes a joking gesture of chiding the Kakita. "But I understand. Much like her, you would prefer the affection be done in private."
"Forgive an old woman a singular indulgence?"
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Post by Kakita Uetani on Feb 14, 2018 7:27:02 GMT -5
"I shall forgive you so much, and this I will forgive you, whatever you ask"
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Post by Utaku Hisui on Feb 14, 2018 7:29:53 GMT -5
"My thanks."
She looks up.
"Is there anything else you'd like to ask? So you know the family you might one day have."
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Post by Kakita Uetani on Feb 14, 2018 7:34:14 GMT -5
She think for a moment or two, then nods
"Tell me a little of yourself at my age?"
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Post by Utaku Hisui on Feb 14, 2018 7:46:09 GMT -5
"Ah. I was…much different, but much the same."
"The first difference was that I was no great beauty. Not ugly, but I didn't fill out much either. I was bland, unremarkable. I blended in easily, and was forgotten just as quickly."
"But I was always a singer. I found it soothing, and it helped keep my debts to Emma-O at bay. Music was a hobby, despite my natural gifts."
"I was a Battle Maiden by training, and was middling in skill. Average in every way, but one. My ability to see a situation and analyze it, to discern patterns and movements. I had a gift for tactical thinking."
"And even then, I had what some might call an excess of Compassion. My first day in this school, before classes even began, I assisted a Doji with an injured leg, defended the dignity of another Doji at a party, and kept an eye on a Mirumoto to prevent her from being taken advantage of. I knew none of these people then, and had no reason to care. But I did."
"That they were all beautiful women may have helped," she jokes. "Women are my weakness. Or my greatest weakness, for I have many."
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Post by Kakita Uetani on Feb 14, 2018 7:55:19 GMT -5
"You seem fairly good at resisting your weakness" she replies "I flatter myself to think that I am something of a charmer, possessed of Benten's blessings, and you resisted me with the greatest of ease"
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Post by Utaku Hisui on Feb 14, 2018 8:08:03 GMT -5
She laughs. "I've learned, over the years, to temper that weakness. To…sate it without being slave to it. And then your mentor walked into my life, and I was 15 all over again."
It helps that I had to find the strength of will to resist someone else just earlier this evening.
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Post by Kakita Uetani on Feb 14, 2018 9:10:27 GMT -5
"Ah well, I am sure I can use tips" she jokes "To keep me from picking up a different strange woman every night"
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