[open] I don't believe in fairy tales

[feale]

Who: Kasumi Yoshizawa + you?
What: catch-all for February!
Where: different places around the Void
When: during February
Content Warnings: n/a! will update if anything comes up!


moving day | slimeberries

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moving day (between Merlaut and Kichijoji)

[feale]

[ After deciding last month that a move to Kichijoji Aerial District will benefit her more than anything else, Yoshizawa has been gradually making preparations. First, there was the effort involved in cleaning out the second floor of the apartment and chasing out a bird that kept trying to come back. Then there was some scavenging around Takoba Beach for some supplies that helped her to set up a basic structure for both the first and second floor.

Now, she's on the final step: moving.

The Merlaut Apartments and Kichijoji are close enough that it's not a huge deal, but there's still a lot of furniture and other decorations to be dragged around. As a result, she's not likely to turn down any assistance that is offered to her!

Help her out? ]

[bazooker]

[Ever since Haru heard how her friend was moving, she figured the best thing to do was to help her out. As she saw Yoshizawa walking around with various things in her hands, she couldn't sit around and do nothing! Without any hesitation, she poked at her shoulder to get her attention.]

Excuse me, do you need some help? That is a lot of things you're carrying there.

[Let Haru help you!]

[feale]

Okumura-senpai!

[ The older girl's presence is certainly a relief. While the Void doesn't necessarily understand physical tiredness all that well yet, there's still something exhausting about lugging things back and forth for the second time since her arrival here. It's more mental than anything, she's sure, but the company is more than welcome.

Still, she doesn't want to immediately overwhelm her senpai either - that would be terribly impolite - and so she stops to adjust the boxes in her arms, handing the lighter one off to Haru once she's prevented herself from losing both in the effort. ]

Thank you so much! I'm so grateful for your help.

now we're cooking with slimeberries! (between Merlaut and Kichijoji)

[feale]

[ It's while she's moving from old apartment to new that Yoshizawa first spies the newly-appeared trees and the purplish-blue fruits growing from them in abundance. It's with an excitement borne from ignorance that the girl rushes forward to them; her hand is on a fruit and plucking it from its stem before she notices anything odd about them. It's only when she hears a tiny, dying cry echoing from what otherwise appears to be a simple berry does she stop in her motions, a look of horror crossing her face. ]

O-Oh no! I'm so terribly sorry...!

[ But of course, the tree gives no response - nor does its fruit, the other pieces of which stare at her with wide, blinking eyes.

The one she's holding? No longer seems to blink. And so the girl is left standing next to the tree, staring down at the fruit in her hand, the mortified expression never once leaving her face. ]

[starshower]

[Tifa's seen the girl around the apartments, and sometimes in Heavenly Blanc on the occasions she goes to visit but has never had the chance to greet her. Something always managed to get in the way of that, which is why when she sees the red head standing beneath a tree, the look of horror and the eyes the fruits bear unbeknownst to her, Tifa wanders up, curious about the newly sprung berries that grow on them.

From behind, she speaks up, reaching around Yoshizawa for a fruit, but not plucking it.]

Do they taste good?

[feale]

N-No! I didn't eat it, I promise—

[ Yoshizawa spins in place to look up at the taller woman, holding out the fruit with a look of panic— and only then realizing that her question was one coming from a genuinely curious place, not one of judgment. Taking a deep breath to center herself, she steps aside so that Tifa can see the tree in its entirety, including the blinking eyes on the fruit. ]

They, um... They seem to have eyes, and v-voices too. I didn't notice until I b-broke one off...

[ She feels so, so terrible about it... ]

[starshower]

Don't worry, I—

[Her reassurance is cut short immediately by eyes of the fruits suddenly coming into view. Something (everything) about the way the ones hanging on the tree makes her uncomfortable, making the pit of her stomach turn as the realization that they are staring back at her sinks in.

And then she looks at the one in Yoshizawa's hands, seeing that its eyes are no longer open. Panic starts to set in, and she reaches for it, but doesn't make a move to grab it, too afraid of what might happen if she does.]

I-Is it okay!?

[IS IT DEAD???]

[feale]

[ In response to the panic in Tifa's voice, Yoshizawa feels her heart sink even further in her chest, feels her own anxieties rise in its place. She killed it, she didn't mean to but she killed it... Anxious tears well in her eyes even as they shoot up to Tifa's gaze, the movement of the berry visible with how much he hands are trembling. ]

I... I didn't mean to, I didn't notice the eyes until I broke it off, and... a-and then—

[ She shakes her head. It's too horrible to say that she heard its tiny, weak voice dying out... ]

[starshower]

Listen...

[Tifa grips Yoshizawa's shoulders, trying not to focus too much on the lifeless slime between them. She's not quite sure what to do next, but she's come this far! No point in turning this back around.

What does one say to a girl who just...? Is that even what happened? What is even happening?]

They look like berries... I wouldn't have known either. Almost did...

[...]

Maybe we can... save it?