you would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit up the world

[trailblazingspirit]

WHO: Yasuho, March, and Ritsuka!
WHERE: from Undertown to the park!
WHEN: mid to late May
WHAT: The Girls Collect Fireflies. jury's out on whether March realizes she might have a crush on Yasuho in the process. please pray for Ritsuka playing the third wheel.
WARNINGS: none so far!

[The wizard is probably going to regret this. Or maybe not, as long as he gets his fireflies back.

March is determined to help him do this, of course! She's a Nameless of the Astral Express even here and now, she's never not willing to help out. The money is a nice incentive, though. She brings her camera along with her, on the faint chance that maybe her seer abilities will actually materially help her this once.

They just might.]

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The Lake

[prunedworlds]

At one point, it had become clear that one of the errant fireflies was, in fact, that glowing speck floating out over the surface of the lake. This hadn't been an insurmountable hurdle, as being a lake there were boats, and with a little cleverness (and possibly some judicial application of Ritsuka's locktouch) the trio was able to borrow one. Several minutes of quietly rowing and tensely figuring out how to grab the thing without rocking the boat too much, and their goal was obtained.

Now all that remained was to row back to shore, put the boat back more or less as they'd found it, and be on their way looking for the next firefly. Easy enough, as they started rowing through the quiet darkness once again.

Or perhaps not so quiet, as over the water came the sound of a distinctive, quiet honk.

"........ Uh. Did you guys hear that?"

finally crawls back to desktop sorry for the wait guys!!!

[youwouldntdownloada]

Perhaps the worst possible hurdle to get over with the water is the fact that Yasuho couldn't get wet. Or, she could get wet, but only if everyone wanted to deal with a massive fish tail on her part.

So, with quiet care assisted by gentle water magic to keep things nice and muted, they're making good progress toward the distant lights. Easy. Perfect. It's-

"...No." That wasn't a 'no I didn't', as everyone can definitely figure out. "...No, aren't those things diurnal, it's the middle of the night..!" Yasuho hisses.

[trailblazingspirit]

"What's a diurnal?" March asks, blissfully ignorant of the coming horror. Mostly she's looking at Yasuho and thinking idly about how cute she looks right now. One hand absently reaches up to tuck some hair behind a slightly reddish ear.

Then she pauses, cocks her head to the side.

"What's all that honking about?" she asks.

[prunedworlds]

On the one hand, Ritsuka had better than average night vision thanks to her monster traits, so the darkness wouldn't entirely hide March's awkwardness. But on the other hand, her attention was fully focused on the lake just now, looking for the source of the sound.

"Something that's only awake during the day," she said absently. There were few things that sent chills down her spine, but those geese were undoubtedly one of them.

"And it sounds like one of the geese. They're uh. We need to get moving. Fast."

[youwouldntdownloada]

Ah, excellent, Ritsuka's got that covered. Honestly if her vision was better at night she'd probably be doing much the same as March, but in reverse. Unfortunately, she can barely see shit, and also the fear of geese is universal.

Swallowing a wave of panic- she so doesn't want to ruin the stockings she has on today- Yasuho waves a hand over the water. "I can try to get us moving a little more, but I really don't have that much going for me here..."

Also- "Do we have the nets ready..??"