Good morning - Things begin again. (Ami thread)

[Anastasia]

Ami's bedroom window lets in not sunshine, but reflected light from a raging snowstorm. White reflected from the white of the snowbanks has a strangely yellow, eerie glow to it. With nothing else to light the room, it has a homely feel to it.

Ami stirs. Or, more precisely, her bladder stirs. Waking from perhaps her deepest rest of her life is not by the desire to join the world of the living again, but merely by the fact that nature calls rather strongly. Your room is as you left it, Ami asleep in her school uniform.

Groggily, you see your bedroom clock - 10:27 A.M.

Morning?

Your body feels light, and your head as well. Not terribly so, but you're still half asleep.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami lifts her head sleepily, the pressure in her abdomen insistent, but not enough to wake her completely...and thus, she pulls herself out of bed and makes her way to the bathroom, her eyes still half closed.

After easing nature, Ami stumbles over to the sink, and splashes her face lightly with cold water...which helps somewhat, though the half muddy feeling of sleepiness still lingers. With a soft sigh, but somewhat more alert now, she head to the kitchen in search of some form of caffiene, blearily wondering how she got home from Mugen...

[Anastasia]

To your surprise, your nose notices the kitchen before your eyes can. The smell of cooking tempts your nose, warm pancakes and syrup, juice, all sorts of tasty things rumbling your stomach. Breakfast would be nice, your ealise rather quickly, on your bodies protest.

As you enter, you find your mother working on the stove, dressed casually. A stack of pancakes, eggs, miso soup, a box of cereal, milk, juice, fruit...wow. Someone went to some trouble, considering your mother is a passable cook at best. "Ami, good morning," Mom says, turning away from the stove a moment and putting down a box of instant mix. "Artemis said you had a rough day and I can't get to work, so...."

[Bean Bandit]

Ami blinks, her eyebrows rising up to near her hairline as she takes in the spread food with an astonished look, looking up at her mother.

"Good morning." Ami smiles a little, guiltily pleased at having her mother around when she woke up. "It smells..." Ami trails off, blushing as he stomach picks that moment to speak up, and loudly. "Wonderful." she adds sheepishly.

[Anastasia]

"I hope it is," she laughs warmly. "I had enough miscues and misfires with the pancakes," a spatula gesture at the wastebin shows a few in there, broken apart and burned messes. Favoring you with a good smile, "I'm just finishing the last batch, so we can eat in a minute." Putting the fresh treats aside, she begins to haul the food and such to the table.

"So..."s he asks as she gets everything down, "What does a bad, busy day in your life mean these days, Ami-chan?"

[Bean Bandit]

Ami watches her mother deal with the last batch of the pancakes, seating herself at the table and wishing she'd chosen to have a shower before coming out...her first breakfast with her mother in some time, and she felt rather...disheveled.

However, the sight of the food is enough to distract her from those thoughts, until her mother's question sinks in. She looks up, a faintly guilty expression on her face. "Uhm...Quite a bit." She admits hesitantly. "Are you sure you want to hear? It's not a pleasant story..."

[Anastasia]

"How could I not want to here when the pet cat turned human carries you to your room," she replies, giving you an eye. "Ami, when I see you terribly pale like that and looking more like a cadaver than my daughter, I want to know." That said, she sits, helping herself to the food before mellowing it a bit and smiling. "We can eat and talk. It was something about that mall incident, wasn't it?"

[Bean Bandit]

Ami winces, having her answer to how she got home last night. Poor Artemis... She nods, taking food for herself, and trying not to seem too eager...her mother had really outdone herself. Miscues or no, if all this tasted as good as it looked and smelled...even half as good, she'd be ecstatic.

"It was." She agrees sheepishly, bowing to her mother's insistence. "Has it been on the news?"

[Anastasia]

Your first bite tells you it makes that one half comment, at least. It's edible. Not great cooking, but your hunger makes it desirable all the same.  

"Some, along with the reports about the all the snow," she nods. "Another outbreak of the Juuban sickness out of the blue. Most of it's being secondary to the second great Tokyo Blizzard...that's what the TV channels are calling it. There's already over a foot of snow on the ground, closer to two now." Your mother pauses at that, thinking over the ramifications of that.

"Anyway, what happened there?"

[Bean Bandit]

Ami eats with surprising energy...the cooking is admittedly, in line with her mother's usual skills, but the emptiness in her stomach more than makes up for that.

She looks up after swallowing a mouthful of food, and bites her lip. "An...Ice spirit, for lack of a better term, possessed a woman...and ice sculptor, who had an exhibit at the mall." Ami replies softly, keeping a close eye on her mother's reactions. "She began to freeze the building, setting up a palace there...and the people in the mall."

[Anastasia]

"Only in Tokyo," Mom murmurs, city cyncysim flaring. Swallowing a mouthful of pancake, "And you had to go clean it up with your friends?

From the looks of it, it wasn't an easy matter, either. What happened?"

[Bean Bandit]

Ami giggles a little and relaxes slightly. "Well...it..." she hesitates, shaking her head. "I don't want to downplay the difficulty of it, but finding her was fairly simple, if time consuming, and exhausting." she relates, eating her pancakes, then moving on to the miso without slowing down as she sips on her juice, wishing idly for coffee...she's still a bit tired.

"It was what to do when we found her that was the problem...We've...'killed' her once before." Thoughtfully, she goes on, frowning. "And then there was getting her out of the woman she'd possessed...In an effort to contain her, I pulled her into my own body..."

[Anastasia]

Mom follows along as you go, nodding in the right places. Really, it could be a reasonable chat about flowers, or marraige or your unplanned pregnancy. Until it reaches the part about absorbing Celcia into your own body, anyhow.

*COUGH*

Gagging on her juice at that, and after emergency napkin usage, "You put her into your body!? Ami, what exactly does that mean?" Already filled with concern in voice, she eyes you carefully, trying to stay calm.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami recoils nervously, raising her hands in a placating gesture. "It's not as bad as it sou--" she pauses, hanging her head. "Actually, perhaps it is. It wasn't terribly well thought out, but she was killing the woman she was occupying..." she adds defensively.

[Anastasia]

"You don't know...?" Mom sighs, taking a few breaths to calm. "Ami...so you basically took this ice spirit into you? And if she was killing that other woman...." That gets another breath.

"Is there any way to find out what's going on with you now, or do we just wait for you to maybe turn into a snowball?" Clearly, this nugget has frayed her nerves, good mood and patience quite notably. "Dammit, Ami. You promised me you'd be careful at this Senshi business...not do something like that..." From loud to soft her voice goes, as her worry begins to set in fully.