1594/That's Not Ominous At All

That's Not Ominous At All
Date of Scene:	11 June 2016
Location:	Mitakihara - Frozen Beach Ice Cream Shop
Synopsis:	Momo and Miss White text. Annnnnd negotiate. And discuss the value of budgeting?
Cast of Characters:	Momo Sakura, Hannah Sharpe

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Momo Sakura has posed:
She's spent the entire day at the park!

Well, not the entire day. But she went treasure hunting and she has at least enough to not get one, but two ice creams!

She's definitely gonna bring her sister some!

She's trying not to get smudges on the glass as she tries to choose between the different flavors. And she wonders if she can get a two scoop ice cream but in two different cups!

Okay, that's technically two one-scoop ice creams...but the two scoop is a little bit cheaper!

Sigh!

Finally she sighs, and flutters off to one side as she internalizes more the pros and cons of each flavor.

While she does this, she multi-tasks!

Deep breath!

Finally, she's sending a text she's been dreading!

What if she sounds mean?!

TXT: Hello I wanted to thank you but I can't work for you because it would make my sister sad.

TXT: Oh this is Momo!

TXT: Um, Momo Sakura!

TXT: I'm sorry! ;.;

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Not too far away, Miss White has found herself an ice cream stand! What's the adventurous mage choosing?

Vanilla. Hey, she can't be strange and intense /all/ the time.

Thus, about half way around the park, Miss White is taking up an entire bench devouring ice-cream and generally enjoying a nice day out. After all the stress of dragging Takashi back to 'normalcy' and combat testing, it's time for a well deserved break.

Then her phone goes off, she stumbles for it, and that ice cream goes /plop/ right on the suit pants. Scowl. "...This better be important."

Clickt.

A brow rises, and finally a chuckle. Well, seems the family reunion at least has gone well in the Sakura household.

White-chan TXT: Heh, you're a good kid. No worries, I thought you'd say that.

White-chan TXT: Doesn't mean u can't come 4 advice. Or if u need help. Won't tell ur sister, promise.

A long pause.

White-chan TXT: Won't be free of course, but I have ALL sorts of useful stuff for a Puella. Especially dead ones.

That's not ominous at all.

Momo Sakura has posed:
Momo looks at the texts. At first she smiles, but at the end, she's a sulky little Momo.

TXT: I don't got money.

TXT: I mean I did! But I bought eggs and am gettin ice cream! Kyou-nee deserves all the ice cream!

She caves and presses her face against the glass before pulling back with a sigh. Out comes the phone!

TXT: I know advice ain't free, but is there a way to get ice cream across town without it meltin?

Wait. What?

TXT: I thought I was the only dead Puella?

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah can't help but smirk.

TXT: I already figured that out last time.

Hannah waves the phone dramatically, then remembers it's a phone and Momo can't see it right now.

TXT: Save that up for Kyouko. With a second mouth to feed, well, that's expensive. Must be pretty hard to get a job at your age, right?

TXT: I mean, you're the first who was dead dead, but I've helped out a few Puella who were written off for dead to get new identities.

TXT: Yeah, get a cooler. Either a plastic one with some ice, or those cheap styrofoam ones and a bag of ice. Or learn teleportation.

Momo Sakura has posed:
Momo gives a long, over dramatic sigh, even realizing Hannah can't hear her.

TXT: It's impossibleeeee! But I wanna do somethinggggg! Whine! I want moneyyyyy! All I got is stupid empty seeds.

At the next text, she raises her eyebrows and tilts her head.

TXT: New identities? What you mean?

And then! Sulk, sulk!

With much dejection,, she walks out of the ice cream store.

TXT: I don't have any of that! ;.;

A random question!

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Oh, /kids/. Was she ever that whiney? Nah, she just got into fights with her parents a lot.

TXT: ...Wait, are you telling me you've just go those lying around?

TXT: Where are you? That stuff can be dangerous to just have sitting. I'll buy 'em. Fair price.

TXT New name, fake ID, legal papers saying your parents are overseas and Kyouko's your legal guardian...that kind of thing.

Momo Sakura has posed:
Her eyebrows draw together in confusion. How are they dangerous? They're empty!

With a shrug, she texts back that she's just outside the ice cream parlor.

She taps her chin in thought! A fair price?

Maybe it would be enough to buy a cooler for the ice cream!

Oh, wait!

TXT: Ohhhh that's amazing! But I like my name. It's my age that's the issue ;.;

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
About two seconds after that text?

There's a gust of wind, and a tak-tak of business shoes on pavement. "I'm sure you do, kiddo. But having Kyouko as your legal guardian, upping your age a bit, and most importantly, making it so that, in the eyes of the law, you're technically alive means you will be able to help her that much more."

Miss White grins. "So how much are those empty grief seeds worth to you?"

Momo Sakura has posed:
"EEK!" So startling!

And then she looks back and forth between Hannah and Sammy for a moment...

Then shrugs!

Momo blinks up at Hannah. "Um..."

She pulls the depleted seeds out from her pocket, looks at them, and looks back up at Hannah.

Her eyes are large, innocent, and so very naive!

"I was kinda hoping for enough to get that cooler you talked about..."

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
There's a big smile on Hannah's face. "Yo."

Reeeach, ruffle that Momo-hair! So adorable! And then she speaks, and Miss White is laughing hard enough that she has to cover her mouth sloooowly slide down the side of the wall, taking a good five minute to work her way out of laughter and re-acquire air.

"Y...Sheesh, you're a trip kiddo! Listen, let me make something clear. I might do bad things, which I'm sure your sister has told you all about, but unlike Kyubey I don't rip people off. Still, if I gave you the real value, your sister would get suspicious and probably punch my face in."

She rubs her chin, and then laughs.

"So here's what I'm going to do. Take this." She offers her a small, black WPS card.

"This is a copper level WPS expense card. Limit's pretty low, though, it's for petty expenses. Here's the catch. This card gets cut off if you hit the limit in a month, or after three months, whichever comes first. If you and Kyouko are going to be penny pinching and acting as Puella, you need to learn the value of money and how to budget. Consider this a test. You do a good job, keep bringing me empty seeds, I'll renew it. Sound fair?"

Momo Sakura has posed:
Momo decides she likes having her hair ruffled! But she doesn't know what she says that's funny!

So she listens, and then looks at the black card.

Budgets! Petty cash?

She looks up at Miss White. "I dunno how to do that. I may hafta get Kyou-nee to help."

She holds out her hand to fork over the two seeds, then pauses! "Are you gonna hurt people with them?"

Large, sad eyes!

Then she thinks! "Are notebooks and stuff petty cash? I wanna write lists. Its weird, to save money you gotta spend it! But if I do good, maybe I could buy a bed!"

Then, grumpy face. She also starts to hand the card back. "Um...I'm not trying to be...I mean, thank you! But um...I need a job. Can I have an ID instead?"