[At some point in the morning, there is a knock at Mami's front door.]

[Waiting there is a lone god-emperor, both more stoic and less talkative than usual. The very last thing he wants to do is wax sentimental or be pitied, but Mami needs company and he needs company, so...]

[Here he is.]

[Bundled up against the freezing weather, Xion's sitting quietly on a bench near the graveyard. It's a rather grim place for sitting, but it suits her mood. She just...needs to think.]

[[OOC:Placeholder until I finish my project, won't tag back until tomorrow. I'll probably add more Xionthoughts then, too.]

Who do you think works faster? Dragons, or robots?

If you guessed "dragons", you're right! [ With that, the troll girl points the camera toward the base of one of the larger trees in the park not Ammy's, sob. As the camera pans up, a treehouse comes into view. Its construction is decent, for something planned out by a blind girl and mostly built by a Dragon God. The outside is unpainted, there is no glass in the windows, and there are no signs of lights or anything if that nature.

The only way up appears to be to climb the trunk, or use one of several devices, all a rope-and-pulley system: a net, a pair of hooks, and a large bucket basket. The whole place still needed a lot of work, but it's enough for her to sleep in with a cot and a space heater. ]

What do you think? Pretty awesome for something put together in four days, huh? [ Proudly. ] I can finally get myself out of that underground hive and start living. [ Sorry, Nepeta. Though she will still come over to sleep since there's no way that structure is anywhere near supporting furniture right now. ]

And I'd like to thank Emperor Fou-Lu for his wonderful~ assistance. [ And she turns the camera to herself for a big, smug smile. One that says: "I had a DRAGON help me. Aren't you jealous?" ]

((ooc: I know a lot of people are out today, but she just HAD to have this post up. Back-tags are always welcome. ♥))

[Fou-Lu passes through the snowflakes, which seem to follow his wake a little longer than they would for a regular person. The god has been overtaken by the familiar icy chill of his anger, and the cause must be corrected immediately.]

[But in this case, violence isn't the answer. No, he's on his way to request that Axel be collared. Loathsome as it is to involve others, Fou-Lu will not wait around to see someone else hurt or killed before acting. Not this time.]

[It's not urgent enough to fly, as Mami should soon be in Ryu's company, and the others can handle themselves long enough for Defense Force intervention. But he's still walking at a brisk pace and avoiding any social encounters by taking side roads. The last thing he needs is a distraction, and he would be terrible company right now, anyway.]

[This may be the rudest awakening Mami's ever had. To her, she went to sleep for a few moments (or so she thinks,) woke up, walked back to her farm...

And someone's tried to torch it. Oh, there's proof of reconstruction (and it looks like there may be another farmer on the premises - she'd have appreciated a "hey, neighbor, I'm gonna move in,") and somehow the weather's colder than it should be, but... Someone. Tried. To. Torch. Her. Farm.

She can't quite keep the despair out of her voice as she cries into the communicator.]

...Who did this?! Who took a torch t' mah farm?! Ah don' remember doin' nothin' to anyone--- Why'd ye do this?!

[Ryu has armed himself with blankets. He has one wrapped around his shoulders right now, and there's a few more in the background. He looks uncharacteristically grumpy.]

Is it really going to snow?

[This is clearly a Very Important Question.]

[ Terezi was in the park, sulking. You couldn't tell from her cheerful expression, though, as she sat on the sidewalk and sketched out crude designs in brightly colored chalk. Anything from flowers, to dragons, to what might be people, or trolls, or stick figure approximations thereof. All with about the skill or accuracy you'd expect from a blind girl. ]

[The farm is beginning to look as though nothing ever happened. Pumpkin vines stretch out across once-burned ground and injured plants have begun to mend. Their time may end with the changing of the artificial season, but this way they have a chance at yielding one more crop before the frost takes them.]

[Fou-Lu sits at the edge of the tiny farm, ascended into his astral form to focus his attention on creating and maintaining a gentle autumn rainstorm over the area. It's not his usual style of magic, as it requires quite a bit more finesse than he usually applies, so he's rather focused and not particularly attentive to the world around him.]

[Of course, it's probably hard for anyone not doing intricate magic to miss the big white dragon staring at the tiny clouds.]

[slightly distracted]

To those who volunteered to help with the renovation on my house, Acumen just told me yesterday that all the materials I needed should be located in the Warehouse in Sector 5. Ed, you know what we need so could you please coordinate with Fai to get those moved over to the house in the next few days?

I'll... be in touch later if you need help with anything.

[Yes, Jennifer's on her way to the hospital because two of her favorite people are laid up and not doing well. Why were her favorite people always getting into trouble!]

((ooc: This is mostly a PSA for the volunteers so they know what's up with Jennifer's project. Right now, the volunteer list includes Fai, Edward Elric, Ashton, Josak (pending other projects of course!), Len, and Tyki.))

[Well, getting there was a little bit of an adventure, but Ryu manages to make it to Fou-Lu and Saix's house intact. Maybe he should have brought something - that's what you did when you visite someone else's house, right?]

[... Oh well. He knocks on the door, smiling.]

[Armed with a watering can and other gardening implements she scrounged up, Xion is trying her hand at fixing up Mami's garden. Watering the plants is going easily enough, but she's not sure what to do about the burned patches. Why would someone want to burn Mami's garden, anyway? :( She's hardly the farmer that Mami was, but she's doing her best.]

...well.

This is unusual.

[Sparkly Ammy is sparkly. She is lying under her tree and amused at how her true form is showing. Normally it takes people believing in her to show this off. She wonders what triggered the change]

[...so this is what being clear-headed feels like. It's been ages. Shame she still feels like a wet noodle with the energy of a kitchen sponge.]

Ummm...good morning? [It is morning, right?] What day is it?

[Fretful,] I must've missed so much class...

[ If you're walking through Sector five this you might catch him wandering around Mami's ashen looking farm, inspecting burnt crops and looking for anything worth salvaging. The little farm girl wasn't around, and the fire damage looked new-- kind of disappointing because it was a nice farm.

Turning the device on, ] Anyone know if that little miss's farm's been properly abandoned? Haven't seen her in a while, and the place's a mess...

( Lost in troubling thoughts )

[You'll find Saix sitting in an out of the way corner of the library, reading intently and taking notes.]


(((OOC: Special invitation to anyone from the FMA-verse, since the majority of the books in Saix's pile have to do with alchemy and the philosopher's stone. :D)))

[ Voice ]
I know I've been talking about this a lot, lately.. [ Or so it felt like. ] But everything is set up for the memorial, for Gyoro and Ururun.

...it won't take long, but I think they would want for everyone they knew to have this chance. I'll be in the graveyard until sundown, and then have the robots bury them.

Thank you all for your time.

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[ Action ]
[ For once, Ashton was dressed appropriately for the occasion; though it was all Jennifer's doing. He had on a nice pair of dress slacks, with a white shirt, and a navy blue vest. Even his headband was missing and his hair was pulled back into a ponytail, with the aid of some hair spray and a tight black band.

He stood a few feet away from a large square hole in the ground. To his side was a large stone box, uncovered, with the dragons' heads (and necks) nestled in with some white fabric. They looked worn, but it wasn't disgusting -- not as disgusting as the show Xellos had put on with them.

Ashton just stood by and waited for everyone -- anyone -- to come by. Once it got closer to sunset, he thought he should give a speech, but nothing came to mind. He's had many days to think of something, but nothing came. ]

((OOC: There isn't really a "ceremony" since he didn't research funerals that much! No one's presiding over the burial, either. Free-for-all posting, but if you could specify Before or After the burial, that would be awesome. ))

[Gino announced the second official Marina baseball game just like last time, giving the exciting play-by-plays and the occasional commentary about the players and the cheerleaders. He tries the occasional video feed, but the communicator doesn't have the best ability to take in a large setting, so nothing is very clear.

There is really never a dull moment in a game where the players include, but are not limited to, dragons, angels, and vampires, oh my!

The Purple Dragons won in a last minute upset. AND THE CROWD GOES WILD! ...Right? Upsets are pretty exciting.]

( ooc note )

[The video feed was at a peculiar angle. Between the foreground of grass and the background of the Butterfly Pavilion was what can be made out was a kneeling form -- white dress, golden corset, long lavender hair, and an arm adorned with a flower bracelet.

Her face could not be seen but one can easily make out sounds of sniffles, as the other arm went out of frame as the person wiped at her face. Moments later, the communicator is then picked up, cupped in her hands --]

H-hello, um...

My name is Sasha, and this may be a strange question to ask but -- I had recalled sleeping indoors the night before and I had woken up outside and... [she bites her lip briefly] restrained. Would anybody know how this had come to happen?

[Fou-Lu | Backdated to mid-afternoon]

[It'd been a while since she's seen Fou-Lu and while she could have certainly called to catch-up, a house visit was just that much nicer! So after the school meeting, Jennifer decided to do just that. Make a house-call. To Fou-Lu! Is anyone home? Knocking on the door~]

((ooc: Fou-Lu household members, threadjack allowed with permission))

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[Jennifer's house: Closed to Hiling, EVE and WALL-E | mid-evening]

[Jennifer had been busy, sure, but she could always make time for a dinner party! She was actually looking forward to getting to know Hiling better and that EVE was finally coming over to experience the wonder of food preparation was a special, unexpected treat! She really hoped everything went well tonight.]

((ooc: Jennifer Household welcomed to threadjack into dinner, but for expediency sake, I'll assume those are 2-way conversations with whomever is threadjacked unless specifically requested otherwise.))

((Note: I'm on the way to relatives for the day, but I'll be back later tonight and will be on for as long as my battery allows in the meantime!))

[Roxas's voice and expression are flat and even] Sometime yesterday, Axel was hurt and ended up in the hospital.

What happened? Someone must have heard or seen something.


((ooc: Backdated to afternoonish.))