[And down in the chem lab, Satoshi and Kaede and Taki were going to look at the headband, but then Soleil showed up. Now what?] [Session Start! 2] * Kaede raises an eyebrow. "You have found us <'we'> what?" * Taki is... in the lab... and standing a bit behind Kaede, and looking much better than she was yesterday... but that's not exactly difficult, and is waiting to find out who this new person is. Oui. Why were you looking for us? Oui? I 'ave, 'ow you say, a conference to 'ave with you. * Soleil steps into the room. "About Fuyuko." Um. * Satoshi shifts nervously. Ah... I suppose I should go get everybody else then... Non, for now, this iz, 'ow you say... adequate. You will tell me, oui? What 'appened. * Taki glances back at Satoshi for a moment, "I... only saw part of it." * Kaede deadpans. "Something that shouldn't have.' * Satoshi nods. * Kaede starts walking back towards the lab. * Soleil stands there, gesturing for them to go on. * Kaede doesn't. * Soleil waits a few minutes, then asks again, "What 'appened?" She had a friendly face when she arrived, but it starts hardening now. * Taki swallows, "Uhm... who are you?" I am Soleil Cardinaux. Merci. * Taki bows, "Taki Shimiru ... and the short version is that we screwed up." She attacked. Her brother went insane. Beyond that... I don't really know... * Kaede rubs his forehead. "It was such a blur...if you really want to know about the events, the two main players aren't here... You don't? * Kaede shakes his head. "I was...I guess you'd call it 'running interference.'" That's a good way to put it. (I'm a hockey player, I would know about interference!) "Interference"? I am afraid I do not underztand. He... was running around... trying to keep the rest of us from getting hurt. * Kaede looks at Taki for a moment then nods. Slowly. We just wanted to talk. That was all. You did...? * Kaede looks at Satoshi for a moment. Then it turns to staring. * Satoshi is stared at. Uh-oh. About what? * Taki looks down, "Several of our friends were attacked... and there were a few things that pointed at... her brother, so... we tried to find out if it was true or not... he ordered her to attack us." * Kaede takes a deep breath and pushes up his glasses, not quite looking at Soleil. "One of them was my sister." * Soleil looks at Taki out of the corner of her eyes. "You were not sure?" And Fuyuko attacked you, you zay? * Taki starts to shake her head and then nods, "That's why we were going to talk... and she grew.... well it was like an arm with a sword fused to it." Zat zounds 'ard to believe. (*RDM... suddenly starts to wonder when Taki assumed Soleil was Arcana... must be the weird hair.) * Kaede sighs. "It does doesn't it?" He gives Soleil a hard look, contemplating something. "Tell me...have you noticed anything else strange around you?" * Soleil nods. "Oui." Like what? Like your stories. You zay you went to talk. But in reality, you went to, 'ow you zay... murder. * Kaede looks hard on Soleil, giving her a steady, expressionless gaze. "That's a lie." What? NO! * Soleil frowns. She glances at the window. "I will tell you somezing." * Satoshi shakes his head. Then by all means, tell us. I know I sound strange when I speak. Zis language... I am not good at. But I am not stupeed. What makes you think we believe that? Ze fact iz, I went to see Fuyuko myself zat day. * Satoshi blinks. "We saw you along the way." Oui. In fact, you insisted I not go with you. (...compleatly don't remember this ^^;) ( You weren't there :P ) (That would do it!) (I don't either) ("Because we thought weird Arcana things were going to happen, and dammit, we were right!") (She was talking with Kyon briefly, and then saw us.) I thought perhaps I could trust you to return ze property of Fuyuko. It was a bad decision for me to make. * Soleil points accusingly. "You didn't want a witness to your crime!" * Satoshi shakes his head. * Kaede rolls his eyes. "Sure. Our crime when her brother's first reaction to our "talks" was to try and impale Satoshi's hand to the door." Who did ze talking? I do not believe you. * Kaede 's face hardens a little. "Haruko." I suspect you talked to him, oui. Long enough to get him to open the door to ze house. He opened it to talk, we stayed on our side. Then he attacked us. He started it. Once zat happened, you rushed him with intent to kill. When Fuyuko tried to defend him, you attacked her too. * Kaede rolls his eyes. "Taki. Can you make a field? It'd make describing things so much easier." Uh... I can try. ...Probibly should go get Haruko and Katie too. Non. You will not. However you'd like. * Kaede eyes Soleil. "Will not what?" Now you want to kill me, too. Because I know. (She is so very dramatic.) You came looking for us. ( She's a Cardinaux XD ) Oui. Uhm... no... look I'll be right back kay? * Kaede looks at Soleil for a minute. Then snickers into his hand. "You think...we're going to..." He snorts and can't help it. This probably doesn't lok well. (Runs in the family? ;p) (It doesn't look well either!) * Soleil points a hand at Taki. "Non. You don't move." She won't have to. (She'll zap you with a sunray.) I won't take a step. ~Taki, just go. It'll probably make things clearer.~ * Taki vanishes. * Soleil grits her teeth. Suddenly, a chair decides to throw itself at Satoshi and beans him in the back of the head, knocking him out cold. * Kaede looks over at Satoshi, then to Soleil in a defensive stance for a moment. "That was uncalled for. But apparently you do already know about it." He relaxes his posture and looks at her with a wary eye. "But I'm not going to fight you." [Order is Soleil and Kaede] Oui. Until your... 'ow you say, reinforcements arrive. * Kaede rubs his head. "You've got it all wrong. None of us want to do anything to you..." Of course you would say zat. It's not so funny now zat you see I did not come prepared, non? What can I do to prove it to-- * Soleil probably should've said unprepared, but... hey, new language and all. * Kaede narrows his eyes at her. "Can I call to them and tell them not to come at all then? Or would that be too "sudden" of a movement. Go ahead, zen. * Kaede dials up Taki quickly on his phone. Speed dial. Probably autodialing with his power once he gets out the phone. Even if it iz some kind of sig'nal... I can crush your partner zere easily, I assure you. (^^;) (Because two murders make a right!) [Unfortunately, Kaede gets no answer!] ( They do in France! ) * Kaede scowls and tries dialing Katie. "Will you quit it with the conspiracy theories? We have no reason to want to hurt you. And what Satoshi said wasn't entirely correct... So is what I said too. What do you mean? You did keel him. No. I didn't. My friend did. But she did it in self defense. We didn't go there with the intention of killing anyone. Self-Defense! You went to his house to kill him in self-defense?! * Kaede eyes Soleil. "No! Aren't you even listening to me??" You are mocking me! We went to find out the truth! That's all! I came home with my sister's eye practically gushing blood with her not having a clue how it happened! The next day, Fuyuko's brother taunts me with a grin on his face asking "How my sister is doing?" How am I supposed to take that??? Evidently, by keeling him. * Kaede huffs and looks at Soleil evenly. He's upset. Oh yes he's upset. No. I didn't want to kill him. I should have wanted to. But I didn't.