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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[youwouldntdownloada]

"Ugggggghhh..."

Groaning into her hands, Yasuho sighs, and starts...taking off her stockings??

"You guys get these ones I'll... ughhhh I'll be back..."

And then with a flicker of light speed to help her shuffle along, oop, she's In The Water!

Mourn her not, gals, she's gonna be bait.

[trailblazingspirit]

"What are you doing, Yasuho?" March asks, watching Yasuho take off her stockings. She tilts her head to the side curiously, before Yasuho gets in the water and oh no now she can see the shape of her plan!

"Oh no oh no oh no be careful!" Ugh, she can't do anything from here! Freezing the birds out would be her usual go-to, but she hadn't thought they'd be attacked by anything today while just trying to gather fireflies! "Ritsuka, we have to help her—"

[prunedworlds]

"What are--" Ritsuka echoed March, before realizing what the plan was. Ah. Well, that was one way to do it.

And perhaps fortunately, she'd been in enough situations somewhat like this to know to keep calm, stick to the plan, and most importantly of all trust her friend knew what she was doing.

"The best way to help is for us to get out of her as fast as possible, so she can escape too," she said, grabbing at the oars. And then without waiting for a response, she was rowing hard. Please, just trust them both, March!!

[youwouldntdownloada]

Please March, just trust them!

And especially her!!!

...

"Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot-"

Eventually, they'll find her back on shore beating back those geese with a big fat fish tail...don't lose those fireflies though...

[trailblazingspirit]

March makes an upset little noise in the back of her throat, but—damn it, that's all she can really do, can she? She puts her hands to the oars as well and starts also rowing as hard as she can, but every so often she glances around, worried for Yasuho, trying to catch a sight of her pink hair. Her demon tail flicks about in agitation.

"The geese aren't going to hurt her too badly, right?" she asks.

[prunedworlds]

"Not if we get out of here before they can do anything."

Fortunately, with them no longer bothering to be quiet about it, the boat moved along fairly quickly. Ritsuka hopped out as soon as it ran aground and started pulling it further in.

"I'll try to put it back, go get Yasuho and I can get us out of here!"

And the fireflies of course, but they should be safe sitting in the boat to be grabbed once it was put away for now.

[youwouldntdownloada]

Take your time everyone! Take your time!

She's doing great, she really is. Granted, the most visible parts of her are probably the faint gleam rainbows from when she uses magic at all, but that's fine, it's fine.

At least they got those fireflies. Where to next?

[trailblazingspirit]

"I'll go get her!" March proclaims, with all the confidence of a Nameless Pathstrider of Trailblaze, which is to say: very confident for all that it's a little unearned. Then she glances to the water and seems to weigh something.

All right, then. She's just going to dive right in and start frantically paddling to where Yasuho is! A ball of ice forms in her hand, and she chucks it at the birds—not really aiming to do much damage, just trying to scare them off. "Yasuho!" she calls.

[prunedworlds]

Well that was... okay then. Ritsuka would have suggested just getting somewhere safe and letting Yasuho flee on her own, but March had taken off before she could even get a word in edgewise. Oh well.

Ritsuka would just be here, you know, putting the boat back where they found it and gathering up the captured fireflies. And finding somewhere nearby but away from Goose Territory to wait.

[youwouldntdownloada]

Needless to say, she heard that splash!

"WHAT-!?"

But as beached as she is, she can't do much except watch as March starts paddling over. "Wh- March what are you doing!?"

At least one of them is handling the fireflies. And ooo-

...Well a few geese do look at where the ice landed, but they're mostly not giving it much attention. Oh well.