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[cure_moonlight]

Characters: Yuri Tsukikage & anyone who happens by.
Setting: Room 1-11, Dorm Halls, Floor Three/Library
Format: Prose, but can roll with anything in replies.
Summary: Yuri wakes up. Let's try and fight depression, shall we?
Warnings: None yet, besides Yuri probably being sort of emo at first, will add more if anything crops up.

*Room 1-11

Yuri knew what her friends would expect of her, and that they wouldn't want to see her shaken. They wouldn't want to see her cry.

Resisting all of that was pretty difficult as she sat on her bed, pouring over this letter again and again.

After everything they had done, after rescuing their world when it had been reduced to nothing more than a literal desert... To think that it all could have been for nothing, and everyone - her friends, her mother, and everyone they saved - could just be gone in a snap, just like Cologne and her father...

She folded the letter up, sliding it into her jacket pocket alongside the Heart Pot's lid.

She took several deep breaths, trying to compose herself. She recalled Tsubomi's words when they faced Dune. She tried to focus on that, and draw strength from it. If she was going to figure out what was going on here, she would have to keep control of herself and her emotions.

If she lost it, then she might as well have no hope, and then where would she be? She couldn't let herself become that person again.

She refused to.
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*Dorm Hallways

Once she had a better hold of herself, Yuri left the room to explore. Not knowing what she might possibly be facing, she kept her transformation items within quick reach.

This could easily be a trick, or some type of trap. She wasn't naive enough to think Dune's defeat meant the responsibility of the Precure had also left. There could always be another enemy.

A situation like this certainly rewarded that paranoia.
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*Library

Inevitably, after mild exploring and a trip through the cafeteria - where she consumed her oatmeal without complaint - Yuri instinctively gravitated towards the third floor Library.

It was a small comfort to find something like this, honestly. She quickly took to exploring its contents, more than anything looking for a means of distracting herself while she pieced her mind together.

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LIBRARY

[shadowofmoonlight]

Since her arrival, Dark Precure had been looking for information - anything that could tell her about what happened to her, and what happened to her father. Anything about how to get home, and whether or not home still existed.

She'd been avoiding her room-mates entirely, sleeping only when she was certain they were gone.

But this time, fate had brought her to one of the people she wanted to see last in the multiverse.

"Enough!" she screamed, from behind a bookshelf that was near Yuri. "This information is all useless!"

[cure_moonlight]

Yuri went positively still, and looked more than a little pale. Eyes wide as saucers, the book she was holding slipped from her fingers and flopped onto the floor.

That voice.

By all rights, she was pretty sure she just heard a ghost.

She stayed still, not yet dare approaching the voice, and listened. Her head was already spinning from arriving in place, and now it was going in a million different directions.

[shadowofmoonlight]

Seconds later, she came stomping out into view, an annoyed look on her face. "What is their game?!" she exclaimed to no one. "How can they not have any informa-"

She froze, having noticed something in the corner of her eye.

And she spun around to face it.

"Cure Moonlight," she hissed, looking directly at Yuri.

Library

[warriorscribe]

Enoch simply liked being around books - it was comforting in a way he couldn't really place. So he'd brought his breakfast up here to eat it, a book open on his lap as he finished off the last of his pancakes.

Unfortunately, he'd chosen to sit closer to the books, that is, against the shelves rather than at the tables, meaning he would be in someone's way if they were to be looking at that shelf. Or attempting to look at it.

[cure_moonlight]

For many moments, she gazed at her opposite number like a deer caught in the headlights. Then slowly, she asserted her stance, and gave her a tense and wary look.

"Dark Precure," she said as evenly as she could.

She was alive.

How on Earth was she alive?

[cure_moonlight]

Which is precisely what Yuri was trying to do. Certainly, it was a large enough place, and she could look elsewhere, but, well... He was kind of sitting right in front of the section she was looking for.

She gave a light cough.

"Ah, pardon me...?"

[warriorscribe]

Enoch looked up when she spoke, startled. He'd obviously been absorbed in the book, if the fact that he hadn't heard her approach was any indication.

"Oh...I'm sorry." He promptly got up and moved aside.

[shadowofmoonlight]

"So you were brought here as well," she said, summoning her Dark Tact. Better safe than sorry.

Hn. The hatred was boiling in her veins. She wanted to bring this... this imitation to her knees. Defeat her. Claim her rightful place.

But that Nanoha woman's words still rang true in her mind.

"... It appears we are in the same predicament."

[cure_moonlight]

Yuri did her best to maintain a steady gaze and not waver. Which was ... difficult, to say the least. In response to the Tact, she flipped her Precure Seed out between her fingers.

She did, at least, make a good point. Dark Precure had a collar just as she did. By all looks of things, they appeared to be in the same boat.

That wasn't enough to let her guard down, emotionally or physically yet, though.

Instead of saying something defiant, though, the next thing out of her mouth was anything but.

"You're alive..."

[cure_moonlight]

"I won't be but a moment," she said evenly, kneeling down and retrieving what appeared to be a rather large math book. At least, that's what it appeared - truth be told she was just looking for something thoroughly academic to distract her mind.

She gave him a slight bow as she stood back. "Apologies."

[shadowofmoonlight]

"... Yes, I am," she said, crossing her arms but not putting her tact away.

"How that managed to occur, I have no idea. Are you truly that disappointed?"

[warriorscribe]

Enoch shook his head. "I was the one who thought this section didn't see use."

Of course, he had no idea why people tended to stay away from this section. He thought some of the mathematical ideas were very interesting! ...If a bit hard to jump into without gradually applying simpler ones.

[cure_moonlight]

"Disappointed...?"

Yuri trailed off, her expression wavering. Her hand dropped, Seed still held between her fingers. She frowned at Dark Precure.

"No... I don't understand it, but I'm not-"

She clenched her eyes shut for a moment.

This place... What was this place? How on Earth could Dark Precure be alive?

"I don't understand it," she murmured, and opened her eyes back. "And you don't know what happened after you died, do you...?"

[cure_moonlight]

Yuri gave a light, but not entirely genuine smile. That was kind of hard at the moment, honestly.

"Heh, I suppose with people being stuck here, there's not many who would find the idea of studying a math textbook entertaining."

[shadowofmoonlight]

"My guess is that whatever force brought us here repaired the damage done to my body," she replied.

At this, she raised an eyebrow. "How can one know what occurred after their own passing?"

[warriorscribe]

He caught that "forced" sense to it - how many times had he done the same? His apologetic smile relaxes and softens.

"We all find our diversions where we can."

[cure_moonlight]

"Right," she breathed quietly. "Of course not..."

Her shoulders slumped, and she shivered. This was so surreal, and yet here she was. As if that last attack had never done its damage.

Yet she remembered dying...

"Dark Precure," she said, after a moment. "You are right that we're in the same predicament - there's no need for us to fight any longer, but there wouldn't have been any need for that even if we weren't here..."

[cure_moonlight]

"Yes, of course," she said, turning slightly and trying to hide the fact her expression was fairly bothered. "I expect I'll be spending a lot of time in here, at least."

[shadowofmoonlight]

Dark Precure's eyes widened.

"And what exactly do you mean by that?!" Yuri's opposite spat, the implications of such a thing obviously not being lost on her.

[warriorscribe]

There was a pause while his smile slipped away. Of course a simple smile wouldn't comfort her, she'd woken to the same thing everyone else here had...

"...I'm sorry. Waking up in this place isn't something anyone should experience."

[cure_moonlight]

Yuri averted her gaze. She couldn't bare to look into Dark Precure's eyes as she spoke what she did next, having to force herself to get the words out.

"He killed him," she murmured, and wrapped an arm around herself. The memory was still vivid in her mind, and she shuddered. "Dune killed Father..."

[cure_moonlight]

She absently opened the book and began flipping through it as she stood there.

"No. No, it shouldn't be..."

She paused, and bit her lip. Then without looking back at him she said.

"Our worlds... is what we're told the truth...?"

[warriorscribe]

"I...don't know. I don't want to think so, myself, but someone has said they returned to wander theirs..."

Said person had also been the one with the phantom theory that seemed to hold less weight to him lately.

[cure_moonlight]

"And they saw it..."

She didn't want to finish her sentence. Destroyed? Devastated? Lifeless?

She shuddered, attempts at hiding her emotions chipping away at a fairly steady rate.

[shadowofmoonlight]

Dark Precure's eyes widened even further, and her Dark Tact clattered to the floor. Her hands shook, and for a moment, a look of absolute despair appeared on her face.

"... why...?! All... all father ever did was serve him dutifully...! Why would he...?!"