Returning to normality....? (Haruka thread)

[Liddo-kun]

"Music Heaven Studio, Megumi Kushui..." Haruka repeats to herself as her father leaves the room.  Turning her head lazily to her companion, "It's not much to work with, but it's at least a start.  Thanks for coming with me, Viluy."

[Anastasia]

"Haruka Kushui," she murmurs, as if tasting it, before giving you a smile. "You don't need to thank me...and you have a start, too. Are you going to go there today?"

[Liddo-kun]

"Most likely," Haruka replies with a nod.

[Anastasia]

And thus, the two of you depart. Once in the car, you get to work on finding Music Heaven Stuidos. It takes most of the morning to find it, puttering around Tokyo. When you finally do, it feels rewarding - it's in a rather large highrise, a construction of glass, steel and archtexture that soars into the sky as so many things in Tokyo do.

Parking and going into it, you find that it's on the 23rd floor from the main directory. "I suppose it's a fairly successful studio to affort a place in a skyscraper," Viluy notes as  you walk along.

[Liddo-kun]

"So you would think," Haruka replies with a smirk.  "You need to present a professional front, after all, and what better way than to put your office up in the clouds."

[Anastasia]

Viluy nods. "In the clouds...Music Heaven Studios," she resists a laugh, voice light. "The clouds do fit, don't they? Looking for Megumi in Music Heaven Studios..."

[Liddo-kun]

"And of course, "Ten'oh", works well with the current theme, doesn't it?" Haruka quips with a chuckle.  "I'd almost suspect some kind of force was at work with this strange design on mind."

[Anastasia]

"Perhaps it means your mother is the Goddess of Heaven," she says lightly, "And this will signify your ascent above?" The last of that comes with a good natured chuckle. "Or the gods of irony are running rampant on your poor life."

[Liddo-kun]

Haruka snorts.  "Or something," she says with an amused roll of her eyes.

"My mother a goddess..." she repeats, mirth in her tone.  "So what would that make me then, hmm?"  Haruka gives Viluy an amused look, playing this game.

[Anastasia]

Tapping her chin thoughtfully, "A demigoddess. Which means that you're half goddess and half human. So...you'd go between living here and doing all sorts of things up in the sky?"

[Liddo-kun]

"Right," Haruka drawls, giving Viluy a look.  "You just earned geek points with that one," she teases, finding amusement in the pout that makes its way onto her cohort's face.

She was grateful for the small distraction.  It gave her the time to sort out her thoughts on all this.  The meeting with father, getting mother's name, and now being here?  Things were progressing at light-speed as far as she was concerned.

[Anastasia]

In good nature, "Yes, yes. It's the 23rd floor, isn't it," she asks. "May as well go instead of standing around here."

[Liddo-kun]

Haruka simply nods as she enters the elevator with Viluy.  Pressing '23', she stares idly at the display as the numbers climb lazily upwards to what was hopefully a meaningful first meeting.

[Anastasia]

Your hand is in Viluy's as the elevator does it's thing, even when people come in. Rising up, onto destiny?

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With a clean mechanical ping, the door opens to your destination. Ahead is a little front lobby, with various pictures, signed by music stars, hung about. A front desk is there, along with chairs with tables loaded down with music magazines. Nice place, really, the receptionist clean and smiling.

[Liddo-kun]

Stopping in front of the receptionist, "I'm looking for Megumi Kushui.  I was told I might be able to find her here."