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Characters: Kyuubey and YOU.
Setting: Everywhere.
Format: Wevs is good!
Summary: A small, adorable creature wakes up in the tower of souls and decides to go exploring~. Nothing could possibly go wrong in this situation.
Warnings: Possible Inevitable spoilers for Madoka Magica.

[First scenario: in room 1-13] The immobility? That wasn't really a big deal. The strange bed? Nope. Comfy, kinda. It could have done with some more cushions, but that was personal taste and easily dismissed. Kyuubey sat up and stretched the moment it sensed a response from its body, and looked around with a few quick turns of its fluffy head. Its tail lashed back and forth absently, and it just. Sat there. Unblinking, thoughtful. It didn't need to check the trunk, and it had seen the note from the bed. Rescued, huh? Is this what the new universe looked like, or was this some remnant of the old one? Did it still have a job to do? Hmm, it sure was a puzzler! About two hours later, it scrambled to its feet and darted out of the door.

[Second scenario: in the tower] A white flash darted to and fro, slipping between shadows and stone, red eyes flashing out at anything noteworthy. When it spotted someone promising, it would run out, slower, easier to see, and either accidentally wind up in their path, or just pattering alongside them with little cat-like steps for a couple of metres. Testing, observing.

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2nd scenario

[beknightedheroine]

Her footfalls are heavy and echo dreadfully - it's hard not to step with such dramatic poignancy, when the signs of destruction are still all around. The higher the floor, the more was wrecked - though the dorms were pristine, save for the key missing component of, y'know, everyone's things.

Was that a blip of red? Bright red, like someone's eyes caught by a camera at a wrong angle. Sayaka stops in her tracks, and rubs at the corners of her vision. She still felt as worn down as the tower looked, days later. She was probably just seeing things...

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Probably your imagination, Sayaka! After all, you're meant to be dead.

Then again, so is the universe, so today's just full of surprises. For a brief, potentially unwise second, Kyuubey stops to regard her with bright, unblinking eyes. It doesn't feel surprise, but the influx of thoughts and possibilities emulate its paralysing effects well enough.

[beknightedheroine]

It's an image like a white ghost in front of her. The sight of Kyuubey is one she's not seen for - geez, how long now? But either way, she freezes stock still for the same second Kyuubey does - to her, it lasts eternally long.

A second hasn't felt this long to her since June.

Then the specter of the past has vanished, and she's left to race over to the spot where it appeared, frantically looking around - no no no nonono, if Kyuubey is here then things are just going to become more and more of a disaster!

"Kyuubey! Come out already! You're really there, aren't you?!"

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To talk or not to talk? Sayaka is left in suspense for a few more torturous moments, before Kyuubey rematerialises from the shadows a little way down the corridor. If it notices her distress, it sure as hell isn't showing it.

"It's been a while, Sayaka!"

[beknightedheroine]

..Same Kyuubey as always. She shouldn't be surprised, really. Sayaka attempts to recover a sense of decorum from her minor freakout, standing straight and tall. She casts a vividly angry glare towards the incubator.

Nothing it hasn't seen before. Sayaka sure is acting like her same old self, for someone who's dead!

"..How would you know how long it's been?"

But if Kyuubey had just gotten here... so many people from different timelines she's met in the tower. 'A while' could mean anything, any set of circumstances...

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It considers, head tilting this way and that. Steps forward again, almost within reach.

"You've been here a while, right?"