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[welcome_home]

Who: The Izanagi Household
When: backdated to waaaay back at the end of June >.>
Where: Izanagi Jingu
What: Nanako's had a Day...


[ It's late evening when Nanako gets back to her brother's Temple after a full day out trying to answer a Prayer. She lets herself in the front door and toes off her shoes before stepping up into the hall and crossing into the big open room that takes up most of the first floor of Souji's home.

Except her normal exuberance is missing and she looks drained and exhausted and after casting a tired look at the stairs, she decides that looks like too much work and goes to curl up on the couch in the living room instead, wrapping herself snugly about a pillow and clinging to it as if it was one of her stuffed animals.

She even forgets to call out that she's home, but as she's not sure who else is here at the moment, it doesn't really occur to her as she goes to huddle on the couch for a while instead. ]

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[welcome_home]

Yeah, but what if it comes back? Or what if it hurts someone else?

[ Nanako's still upset about that, especially on top of how scared she'd been herself. ]

[timeshields]

You are not responsible for everyone in the world. No one can stop everything.

[welcome_home]

But we're gods! Isn't that what we're supposed to do?

[ The protest is surprisingly vehement, but perhaps more surprising is the sudden surge of bright light that seems to come from the little girl. Nanako looks just as startled by it and quickly claps her hands over her eyes with a distressed cry until she could make the sudden bright light dim again. ]

Oh no!

[timeshields]

I'm not a god.

[Which is probably why she gives so little care about people who are not Nanako or Souji.

For now, her attention is diverted.]

What was that?

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako still has her hands clapped over her eyes, although she might shift her fingers just enough to peer out from behind them with one eye. ]

That.... It was how I scared the ayakashi away. It just... happened.

[timeshields]

You were glowing.

[Worry starts to gnaw in her stomach.]

... Do you know how to control it?

[welcome_home]

No. Not yet. I don't even know what I did. It was just really bright - before, too. It scared me.

[timeshields]

Then you've learned something about yourself.

[welcome_home]

But I don't know what I learned though. [ It's enough to have Nanako pulling her hands down from her face a little to blink at Homura in confusion. And maybe a hint of uncertainty. ]

[timeshields]

You've learned you can emit bright light. It seems like it's related to your feelings.

[welcome_home]

Yeah, I guess... [ She stares down at her hands, unsure of how she'd actually done that still. ] And it scared away the ayakashi, even though I couldn't stop it by myself.

[timeshields]

It's a start.

Now you can train it so you can use it at will.

[welcome_home]

Yeah... [ She thinks that over for a moment before her expression slowly - hesitantly - begins to brighten. ] I guess this means I really do have a power after all?

[timeshields]

Yes. Now it's a matter of learning and training it.

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako nods, curling and uncurling her fingers in her lap before glancing up at Homura again. ]

Thanks, Homura. Maybe... Maybe I can do it better next time.

[timeshields]

I'm sure you will.

... Bring me next time.

[welcome_home]

[ That certainly has her gaze jerking up to Homura's face as she goes still. ]

Would that... be okay?

[timeshields]

I want to protect you.

[welcome_home]

But what if you get hurt too?

[ Nanako didn't even want to think about that, and today had been too close. ]

[timeshields]

I'll be fine.

[There's no reason for her to think that without her memories, but the feelings remains.]

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako hesitates, biting her lower lip. ]

Should we... ask Souji-oniichan first? Just to make sure?

[timeshields]

We can talk to him.

[But either way, she's not opposed to becoming both their shinki.]

[welcome_home]

Should we go find him?

[ Homura has offered something like this before, but Nanako had never been ready. Especially after how scary getting her first Shinki had been. But after the danger of tonight and her discovery of her own powers...

Well. She was reconsidering. Like Souji, Homura often made her feel safe. ]

[timeshields]

Let's.

[She'll stand up and offer her hand to Nanako.]

[welcome_home]

[ Nanako reaches out, gripping Homura's hand in a tight grip as she slides off the couch, still clutching the pillow with her other arm. Tucked in against the other girl's side, she nods. ]

Okay. Do you know where he is?