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[Ever since her meeting with Namine, this has been eating at her. It all goes back to the conversation with Souji, about how little she and her friends knew about the battles and how weirdly the robots behaved, and now - she knows so little that her imagination can run wild, and it's travelled to some disturbing places. Too disturbing to do this over voice of video.]

I have some questions about where you guys come from. If you don't want to answer, it's fine.

Were there worlds within your world? That you could travel between? And did the people in each world know about them?

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A hundred years?!

[histories]

Y-yes! A hundred years!

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How... old are you?

[histories]

[insert 2XX age here; spoken such as T-Two Hundred and "insert numbers here.]

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Wow... [She can't be human, then, but how do you ask someone what they are? There's no polite way, is there? Just have an awkward face here as she questions herself internally.]

[histories]

[juuuust going to take a deep breath here, to compose herself again.] I'm actually a half-beast... At least, I used to be, before arriving here. -- Not the feral kind, of course, but it did help my role as a guardian for the village I lived in from time to time.

[agoodfamily.livejournal.com]

A beast... you mean, you were part animal?

[histories]

Not exactly. The hakutaku is more of a spiritual beast than merely an animal.

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A spiritual beast? I don't understand...

[histories]

Hm... Let's just put it this way: when a beast is sentient, capable of thought beyond mere instinct and capable of human speech, you would consider it to be above merely being an animal, wouldn't you?

[agoodfamily.livejournal.com]

Well - yeah, of course.

[histories]

Well, in this case, the hakutaku is both that and also more of an ethereal being than a physical one. Thus a spiritual beast.

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Oh... I think I get it. [She doesn't.] But you're different now, here?

[histories]

Ah, yes. It appears that I've returned to being merely human for now. It's a good thing I haven't suddenly become as bodily old as I am supposed to be.

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that humans can't possibly live that long.

It must feel weird, though. Suddenly being something else. It's weird enough being here all of a sudden, without that happening too.

[histories]

Indeed. Should that have happened, I'm sure I would have merely turned to dust!

Well, it's really more a case of having something that should happen once a month never happen any more...

[agoodfamily.livejournal.com]

[Once a month... does she mean...?

Well, it makes sense, if she's so old. Her mom did say that it stopped when you were older. But why would she bring it up on a public channel?! Blushing furiously, Nakama stammers out a weak 'O-oh', and that's about it.]

[histories]

[she blinks at that response for a moment, puzzled, then thinks back on what she just said again...]

["Well, it's really more a case of having something that should happen once a month never happen any more..."

".... something that should happen once a month..."

"... once a month..."

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N-No, t-that's not what I was referring to!

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OH! Oh gosh, I'm sorry! I shouldn't have assumed!

[histories]

N-No, it's alright... [deep breath! calm down, regain your composure...]

[okay, let's explain this properly now.]

You see, I was a were-hakutaku, thus a half-beast. Once a month, every full moon, I'd transform, to gain some of the features of the beast itself, and also have quite a boost in my usual abilities.

But while I'm here, this doesn't happen any longer... which is why I believe I am merely human now.

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Oh, okay. [That takes her a minute to digest. Features of the beast? It's a little weird, but... she is nice, so Nakama doesn't want to say so and offend her. Lots of things are weird to her, after all, but they're totally normal in their own worlds.]

What kinds of abilities did you have?

[histories]

Well, let's see... I was able to fly, hide and create history, and conjure up energy spheres. [she'll leave out spellcards for now, seeing as they're not exactly her own abilities, but rather an invention and creation of the Hakurei shrine maiden.]

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Create... history...?

[histories]

That's right. In essence, it's basically revealing what I have hidden before, rather than truly creating something new altogether. By hiding something the history of a town, for example, I can make it vanish from the eyes of most people, and by 'creating' it again, I will allow it to be seen by others once again.

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So... they just forget something happened? If you hide it?