797/Curt Questioning

Curt Questioning
Date of Scene:	04 January 2016
Location:	Uminari City - Midori-Ya Cafe
Synopsis:	Nanoha talks to Hannah about some things she heard from Miss Blue- confirms Hannah as a mage---- and finds out she may not be the shining diamond of a person she thought she was, if not a completly evil jerk.
Cast of Characters:	Nanoha Takamachi, Hannah Sharpe

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Nanoha Takamachi has posed:
Midori-Ya was not as busy as it usually is. The reason for this is clear- the school break- less kids going to school meaning there's no as much traffic. There's still commuters and those seeking easy breakfasts out- but nowhere near as busy.

Behind the counter is Nanoha who seems generally okay and chipper as her usual self.

She is drawing hearts of white frosted cupcakes. She's practicing for Feburary, afterall! When they'll be popular for a small bit.

Her hearts are just a little lopsided.

There's also a ferret eating a cupcake on her shoulder.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah comes walking in with her ever-faithful doggy companion! Boris leads her over to her usual table, the young woman dressed in a lovely sundress. Oddly, the usually fiery and energetic woman looks distinctly tired and maybe even a little worried. Still, she gives her usual waves and grins to the waitstaff that she passes before walking up to the counter.

"Morning! Usual, please!" Comes Hannah to Nanoha, or at least at her: she hears movement and assumes there's one of the usual workers there!

Either way, it's an x-tra large coffee, a donut, and a small pastry for the big fluffy lug beside her!

Nanoha Takamachi has posed:
Nanoha Takamachi seems to pause-- and try the hearts a different way, making the slants first--- then the '3' shape at the top. She beams. "Oh--hey, that did straighten it up..." she says to no one in particular out loud. She looks up and turns oh!

"Hannah-chan!" she beams. "Oh---! Right---um a moment!" she says as she goes fishing for Hannah's usual. Extra Large coffee, donut, pastry. She rings it up. She takes payment. She gives proper change---and-or the receipt if plastic is given instead of cash. Then she pauses.

"Hey... Hannah-chan. Can I sit with you today for a moment?" she asks innocently enough.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Gasp! It's a Nanoha! Hannah smiles a little wider. "Oh, hey there kiddo! Thanks!" Yen into wallet goes! She's already being yoinked over to a table by an eager Boris before Nanoha speaks up! Both brows rise a moment, but she waves the younger girl over.

"Sure! Just grab my stuff, okay? Someone's pushy today! Gah...dangit, Boris, I'm coming! Yeeesh, you're getting needy in your old age!" Boris arf's and there's a mental staring match even as she's tugged over to the seat.

When they're all seated?

"So how are you, Nanoha?" Typical American, first name basis with /everybody/.

Nanoha Takamachi has posed:
Nanoha Takamachi grabs Hannah's stuff, and walks over to the table and places it down. She brought nothing for her- but that isn't an accident- she lives in the apartment above the shop with her family- she can presumbly eat here whenever she wants and potentially for free. Look. Running a pastry cafe has it's advantages.

She sits down and just sort of keeps quiet for a moment. The ferret on her shoulder seems to head tilt a moment- and seems unafraid of the dog. She then reaches into her pocket and takes out a small pink marble and clutches it into her hand and taps it against the table just softly. There's a small, affirmative 'ping' Hannah knows is an I.D. by now.

Then she blinks. "Oh! I'm well. Um... hrm..."

"Hannah-chan... how many mages do you know?" she asks.

Well. That was direct, to the point.

"I met one named Miss Blue recently when I went to stop something bad who said they knew you and Boris!" she smiles.

Very direct.

The ferret may have just sighed resignedly- but otherwise seems like a normal ferret.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Boris peers at that oddly brave ferret. It's a little disturbing, and it gets Boris a big paranoid. Could something be off with that creature? Taht ping goes off, and both dog and even Hannah tenses for a moment. Easy to miss, but who knows if either Nanoha or her compatriot are on the ball.

And then Nanoha asks her rather bluntly. Hannah's suddenly looking around, her smile fading quickly. She doesn't look happy. /Dangit/ Blue-san! Devouring her donut, she picks up her coffee.

"We should take a walk. Come on Boris."

She'll motion for Nanoha to follow along. And perhaps worryingly, she heads for a nearby alleyway. Once there, should the young woman follow, she'll lean against the concrete wall.

"You /really/ shouldn't go saying stuff like that in public, kiddo. It could get a lot of people hurt. Why do you want to know, and where did you learn about mages? Tch. Let's skip the formalities. You're one too, I take it?"

Nanoha Takamachi has posed:
Nanoha Takamachi doesn't seem bothered too much by her question. There's not many people in the cafe right now. Nanoha is blunt as a baseball bat. It's kind of silly how she is like that. She blinks. "Sure-- a moment." she says cheerfully. "Mom, I'm going out for a walk!" she says. There's a voice calling back, okay and someone else takes the front.

Nanoha follows along with Hannah and looks around as she's led to an alley, she head tilts. "We're safe in my family's cafe--but okay." she says softly.

She listens and head tilts. "Yes!" she says with a smile.

The ferret indeed sighs- and speaks up. "Since this specific cat is out of the bag." he says. "My name is Yuuno. Yes. Nanoha-chan is a mage. She shows lots of great promise."

"Yuuno's my friend." she insists. "He's a space ferret."

Nanoha acts like this is a common, everyday thing and discussion to have.

"I'm still learning." she insists.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah's attention almost immediately goes to the space ferret. Her sigh is almost as deep as his.

"You've got your work cut out for you, I see." Clearly Hannah's inner jerk is still functioning. There's a single finger offered to Yuuno.

"Nice to meet you. Hannah Sharpe. Charmed and bewitched, I'm sure."

Boris rolls his eyes. "Do not be listening to White Kitten too much. Can be big, big jerk. Call me Boris, by the way." Arf!

Still, Hannah grins a little. "Promise, huh? Eh, we'll see about that." That's a little ominous. She shrugs. "Anyway, since it's already obvious on my end too..." She flips Raging Tempest into the air, and after one showy, wind-based henshin, she's Miss White. She waves a knuckle.

"Right. Call me Miss White. Kasagami White, CEO of WitchHunter Professional Services. And my compatriot here is Raging Tempest. Don't go spreading it around, okay? I've got a lot of enemies who'd use my family against me."

Nanoha Takamachi has posed:
Yuuno looks down to Boris and his eyes hrmmmm. "Oh...I see. A familiar...."

Nanoha thinks on this for a moment- and smiles. "Oh! Boris-kun you talk!" she beams. She doesn't sound too surprised- but does sound pleasently happy at this prospect.

She looks back up. "Yup! I dunno about it myself...really." she admits. "-but I take to this stuff easily enough." she nods matter of factly.

"WitchHunter Professional Services?..." she taps her finger to her bottom lip. Miss Blue never mentioned WPS...

"Oh--no-- um. I don't do the secret ID thing. But--- I can keep a secret for others--- I think. If I know it."

Yuuno asides "I've tried to change her mind but I can't. But she has her reasons." he sighs resignedly.

"I-- met Miss Blue when I met someone named Euphemia and someone I know..." she says a little sadly suddenly. "Named Fate." she says. "Nothing was going on then..." she mutters. "But--- then another time later-- some jerk named 'Riventon' tried to steal this giant thing that appeared from a dimensional disturbance- and Miss Blue managed to escape with a better portion of it--- after I blasted it apart. He was bossing Fate around. They said something about... something called 'UMBRA'..."

She taps her chin. She holds out her hand and Raising Heart enters it's staff form in a short flash. "This is Raising Heart, my partner!" she beams.

There's an affirmative beep from the device.

Yuuno says. "That 'thing' was a piece of a Time-Space Adminstration Beauru spaceship that apparently suffered a catastrophic damage in the dimensional 'weather' around Earth. No doubt more pieces of it are going to start appearing." the ferret says. "Though I'm wondering why the TSAB would send anything out here so far out... in the past or now..."

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Boris pads up, and gives Nanoha's legs a good doggie-bumping with his head and ears! Nuzzle nuzzle!

"Da! Best seeing-eye Familiar in all of Japan! And only one with degree in business administration!" Comes the dog proudly.

Hannah leans down and gives the woofer a good hug around the neck.

"Boris and I have been together for most of my life. When I got RT here and he was getting old? Hey, friends should stick together, you know?"

Boris huffs. "Am still like spring chicken!" Scritch scritch scritch.

Hannah takes in the information about Umbra and Blue. She slowly smiles, maybe a little knowingly. She's silent for some time.

Nope, not selling out Blue /or/ her partner. "Sorry kiddo, can't help you with that one." She says simply enough. Odd way of phrasing it.

"Still. Pieces of a TSAB ship, huh? That could be useful. If you find any parts, let me know. I'll buy them off you. Favors, protection, money...anything you need. You'll find I'm pretty good at negotiating a fair deal. Or anything magic, I'll be happy to take it off your hands." She sounds /way/ too much like a car salesman right now.

R.T. gives a ping to R.H.!

"Anyway, Yuuno, right? Got any theories? I don't take well to some kind of space police poking around. Think they're looking for someone? Where are you from, anyway?"

Nanoha Takamachi has posed:
Yuuno shakes his head. "I am an archeologist. I was studying lost logia known as the 'Jewel Seeds'--- and my ship got caught in the disturbances around this planet. I'm not affiliated with the TSAB-- it is just odd to find them this far out. There isn't any administrated worlds this far out. If they risked sending something out here- it's important enough to risk the inital trip- though- there isn't anything I know of besides my own issue. They could be here looking for me- but I doubt it-- I'd had gotten contact of some sort by now. This area of dimensional space is dangerous."

Nanoha shakes her head. "I'm going to have a hard enough time trying to convience Miss Blue to give up the rest of the wreck she got. It's all dangerous!" she says with wide eyes.

Yuuno nods. "I'm not particularly intrested in selling restricted technology." he insists. Nanoha thinks on this and nods along wit Yuuno.

She smiles and gives Boris a pet!

"Though I am wondering where it's crew went." the ferret wonders. "Most of the mages we've encountered aren't TSAB-- but have intelligent devices-- which begs where these devices come from. I could hypothetize that these devices come from misplaced wrecks and castaways from the ship. If I can convience Miss Blue to let me study the wreck-- I could determine the 'when' and maybe 'why'--- more depending what the wreck consists of." he says.

Nanoha sighs. "We're trying to seal the jewel seeds--- due to the danger they pose. Then Yuuno can go home then with them!" she beams.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
"...Really?" Hannah frowns after she takes it all in. She leeeeans into Nanoha and Yuuno.

Then she gives her biggest, winning smile. "If you're worried about danger, I've got the resources and manpower to keep them safe. I'm doing a lot of research to help some people, you see. They're called Puella Magi. And anything with magical power will let me expand my research until...well, let's just say they have a raw deal that I'm looking to fix. Don't you want to help me with that? You'd be making money, people would get help. Everybody wins!"

A shrug. "Beats me. I tried looking into that, actually, but RT here has some holes in her memory. Uhh, in some cases literally. The old girl was pretty banged up before I got her properly repaired. Still, good question. I'm sure some of them survived. 'I'm a space cop' isn't something you exactly scream to people, you know?"

Nanoha Takamachi has posed:
Nanoha Takamachi seems to think a bit. "Puella Magi...?" she asks. She looks over to Yuuno. Yuuno shrugs- indicating he's not familiar with the term. She looks back to Hannah, pondering a lot. "Raw deal? How?" she asks scratching the side of her head. ".. no one can force you to be something, right?" she asks.

She does frown a bit-- because that smile.... gives her the impression of Euphemia's 'big smile' when the girl insulted her intelligence by trying to trick her for a jewel seed.

"I'll think about it..." is all she says suddenly and hesitantly.

"...don't mistake me for someone who just talks--- you can talk if you want but--if you're not acting-- what's the point!?" she says without prompting suddenly. Did something make her uneasy or insecure suddenly?

Yuuno gives Nanoha's shoulder a pat. "Do you know if your device is Mid-Childian? The name suggests it is." he says. "Don't you have a proper meister? I know enough to keep Raising Heart maintained for Nanoha on a basic level, but I'm not very handy with most modern devices. Raising Heart is a very old one I found on a dig. Nanoha was able to activate it's full potential- which I find intresting and odd."

Nanoha nods matter of factly again, calming down a little and returning more to her usual chipper self- though something flashes across her face...

"Ha---"

"Miss White.. you're not... doing bad things. Are you?" she suddenly asks- as if putting pieces of this conversation together in her head.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
"Force? No. But you can be tricked." Starts Hannah.

"There's this little white rat that goes around giving young girls wishes. Anything they want. Bring somebody back from the dead, get rich as you want, make people go away. Whatever. In return, you spend the rest of your probably very short life fighting these things called Witches and their little buddies, Familiars. Not /our/ Familiars, mind you. And here's the kicker: if a Puella doesn't go out and hunt them down for, well..." She reaches into her jacket and flashes a Grief Seed.

"One of these little beauties? Their magic gets low enough, they die. A neat little fact that Mr. Rat fails to tell them half the time. So if you see any girls thinking about making a Wish like that? Fill them in. It make them a slave /and/ a walking time bomb straight to their grave."

Her hands go wide and she puts away the Seed. "It's twisted crap like that I'm working to fix. Puella are kinda like Mages with a busted Linker Core. And getting those lovely little parts you've been talking about miiight just help me do something about it."

And then when Nanoha lets out that nervous little phrase, Miss White laughs and crosses her arms.

"Hah! I like the way you think, Nanoha. Talk is reeeeal cheap. No point if you can't back it up, right?" Then, a shrug to Yuuno.

"Mid-Childian. Eh, you could say I know a guy who knows a guy, but they get real busy and parts aren't exactly easy to come by. Seriously. You /don't/ want to see my budget for that kind of stuff, it's depressing."

A brow rises. Before she can answer Yuuno further, though, Nanoha speaks up. She moves from the wall, and clenches her Device in her hands.

"...And what would you do if I were, kiddo?" It's not quite goading, but the spark in her sightless eyes is definitely intrigued.

Nanoha Takamachi has posed:
Nanoha Takamachi thinks on this for a bit. Wishes... that's what the Jewel Seeds 'grant' isn't it? It just twists it all around into the path into 'horrible monsterville'. She seems to mull over this point in her head- though Yuuno rather speaks, shaking his head. "History has proved time and time again that 'magic wishes' usually tend to have a devestating cost. I can really only think of a full handful of legends where that wasn't the case." he says ponderingly. He seems to grow intrested on a base level at least- rather than worried. "I would usually warn anyone against taking such a wish- regardless of the outcome. No worries there." he seems to promise.

Nanoha frowns. "Talking AND Acting are important and you can most certainly do one while doing the other and I find people are more willing to talk when you're willing to show you mean your threats- and-- if this is bad to become a Puella Magi- then-- I guess I don't see the harm in making a warning at least..." she says a little more determinedly.

Oh. Then Hannah gets in her face a little. She huffs a little! She doesn't back down-- but she gets--- sad. Earlier. Like when she was talking about Fate. "I guess I'd be really dissapointed--- you've always seen like a nice person..." is all she says- perhaps glumly.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah lets out a little sigh of relief. "I'm glad we're all on the same page. Wishes are useless. There's always a price, and it's usually not worth the cost of admission. Someone /always/ pays for it, even if it's not the person making the Wish. Plus, they have this nasty habit of not coming out how people think they will."

Reeeeach! Nanoha will get a headpat when she mentions giving warnings.

"There we go! You're a good kid. Do that, I don't like people getting stuck with raw deals. It rubs me the wrong way."

The look annoys Hannah greatly. Her brow twitches. Boris just facepaws, and then the dog uses a spell. He's up on the roof in a flash of green.

"I like being nice. I do. But sometimes if you want to make your dreams come true, you have to do things that other people don't like. Especially if you have a dream like mine." She starts.

"You see, this world's rotten. Only strong people with money and influence can do anything. So if you want to change things, you need to be stronger than anybody. So, I'm going to become stronger than anybody." She's /far/ too chipper as she says that.

"Being dissappointed isn't going to do anything, I'm afraid. It's like you said. Words /and/ actions, right, Nanoha? But I wonder if you have the backbone to stand up to big talk like that. 'Promise', huh?" A grin to Yuuno. Hannah snaps her fingers, and a Barrier goes up, the girl's legs glowing green as wind buffets the area and makes her suit jacket sway.

"I do things you probably won't like. So why don't you show me if you're someone worth listening to or not? I'll even give you the first shot. COME ON!" She makes a 'bring it' motion with her finger.

Nanoha Takamachi has posed:
Nanoha Takamachi looks up at the headpat but still frowns-- and looks sad. She huffs. "I don't thnk this world is rotten. I admit--- there's lots of bad things... but there's-- lots of good things too, right? Stuff worth protecting... right?" she asks.

Oh. then Hannah throws up the barrier--- she knows what a barrier is- and it's purpose is of course. Usually- Yuuno handles that for her- she's still learning the spell herself.

Nrg--- does she really have to? Yeah. She thinks. She has to. "Raising Heart.. setup..."

< Setting up. Ready. >

Nanoha slides into her barrier jacket-- frilly-- those weird feathers in her air. She taps her feet and little pink winglets.

Nanoha is an extremely powerful magical signature if Raging Tempest has any sort of sensors up. It was enough to worry Riventon heavily.

"Cannon Mode..."

< Cannon Mode. >.

The round end of the staff shifts into a more open square shape as Nanoha levels the staff----

And literarly fires a powerful pink laser towards Miss White. It seems to be a very basic magic attack not worth calling out the name.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
That energy signature that pops up as Nanoha henshins gets noticed. Riventon would worry. Hannah? She just grins, looking almost giddy.

Hannah's own signature is strange. As far as mages go, her linker core is low quality at best. And if Raising Heart has seen such before? There's signs of damage and experimentation all around it. Worse still, something black and definitely evil seems to cling to it, like an infection.

Yet, the magic she /does/ put out is efficient, and oddly powerful, backed up by ambition, desire, and that little voice in the back of her head that tells her to push, get stronger, and improve. More magic than that linker core should be able to handle. Definitely not healthy in the long run.

KABOOM! A large pink laser comes bursting towards her, and Hannah doesn't bother moving. One of those green tinged legs lashes out, connecting with the blast as her Device throws out a shield right at the point of impact. Hannah's training and exercise definitely pays off! She gets shoved back towards the end of the alleyway by that blast, her heel digging a rut straight into concrete as magic and muscle fights that burst of magic all the way!

Miss White lets out a mighty yell, leaps up an inch or two, and then puts her hips into it. The laser-burst gets hit with a blast of her wind magic as that shield turns offensive on the blast itself, sending the attack straight through the alleyway's wall. Several businesses now have a neat new side entrance that's suspiciously laser shaped.

Thankfully, this is why Hannah put up a barrier. She lets out a rather satisfied sigh, and kicks off some concrete from her shoes.

"...Well look at that. You're not all talk after all. Now let's see if you can take as good as you give!" There's no hint of that nice, easy-going girl from before. No, Hannah's lost in enjoyment of a fight right now.

Her leg glows green again, and then she pushes off the ground. Sliding on a wave of green wind, she proves one of her biggest assets: speed. Nanoha will have to act fast!

Hannah aims a wind-fuelled punch straight for Nanoha's chest, followed by a right hook towards the face! Should they hit, those punches /hurt/!

Nanoha Takamachi has posed:
Nanoha Takamachi gets readings- but she doesn't know what they mean. Raising Heart doesn't seem to interupt them out loud. Yuuno will probably look over the results of this later and figure it out for her. Nanoha will worry later about that.

Nanoha is 'strong' upon inital scans. But she's inexperinced. It's why Fate was able to counter her easily in the end. She doesn't really know half the spells she should by now.

When Hannah comes in she merely raises an auto-cast of Protection from the staff which channels to her hand in a circle as she tries to absorb the hit--- she's able to absorb the first hit---- but the next catches her off guard and sends her flying out into the street from alley. She's also glad there's a barrier up as she skips across the usually busy highway and across the way into a window.

She flies back out as she takes to the sky a little she calls out... "DIVINE SHOOTER.....!"

< Divine Shooter >.

Lots of tiny balls appear around her that begin to explode into more powerful laser spam down into Hannah's general direction. They appear---get used-- then reappear as Nanoha levels a lot of bombardment spells at once. They seem to adjust for Hannah's postion with everyone fired- following her when she moves- if she moves.

Yuuno's next to Boris right now. He seems to be watching intently. He seems disapproving of the fight- but didn't voice his opposition. He knows when he'll loose an argument with Nanoha on certain things.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah watches her handywork as Nanoha goes flying. She rubs her chin briefly. "Eh. I've done better work. Five points." It seems Hannah's been keeping a 'magical girl launching' point set.

Meanwhile, Boris is up there maintaining the barrier and sighing. He looks over to Yuuno.

"No looking glum, friend rodent! White Kitten likes fighting and getting in people's faces. Boris will keep her from hurting little kitten too badly." Comes the dog reassuringly.

Then in comes that bombardment of spell-blasts! Pink lasers crash down into the alleyway, and Hannah's forced to give up her cover. The woman's quick on her feet, dodging a majority of them at the last minute, ducking into rolls behind cars, and generally keeping to the sides of buildings with overhangs to take some of the power out of the attacks while she works her way to get below Nanoha. A group of those bursts hit Hannah right in the chest and through a shield that her Device puts up. Her barrier jacket is torn up, she's smoking a bit, but that crazy woman is still coming!

"You've got power, but no style, Nanoha! You gotta use your head some!"

She holds out a hand, and a trio of wind-balls form. She hefts them into the air, and then kicks the three of them in spinning arcs! One of them goes straight for her, a slightly faster one aims for the legs, and the last one curves around to try to strike her in the back should she move away!

"Wind Bomb!" Calls her Device at the last second, and all three explode, slashing winds bursting apart like magic grenades.

Nanoha Takamachi has posed:
Yunno shakes his head. "I'm not worried about Nanoha." he says. "I'm just annoyed I couldn't talk her out of this if I tried."

Nanoha lets Hannah expend this energy as she moves to evade--- using her flying postion to try to evade the shots-- the first grazes her- the other two hit head on--- she uses that Auto-cast protection to absorb the hits and damage as best as she can.

She takes a deep breath. "Style doesn't mean anything when you're dead."

Well. That was deadly and introspective and serious words from a nine year old.

Nanoha levels the staff down at Hannah as the magic circle forms under her--- another around the staff-- big and round---- "Divine Buster..."

< Divine Buster >

There's the sudden-- and hard cast of what pings as an AAA+ spell before the giant and powerful pink laser descends down into Hannah's location. It's hard. fast and blunt.

In a ways. Much like Nanoha herself.

Yuuno winces and asides to Boris. "I hope your master is fast unless she LIKES being hit with things like this."

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Boris /laughs/. And then offers part of a pastry.

"Da! Is feeling I know. White Kitten get idea, goes through. Through wall. And concrete. And anything in way. Is like scientific battering ram." And then that laser starts charging. Boris perks up. Hannah's eyes go wide, and her face curls into a grin as RT gives her a readout. And /advice/. She somehow manages to look even more excited.

"Oh don't you worry, Nanoha! I have too much to live for to die right now! DON'T HOLD BACK, KIDDO!" Encourages the mage to the smaller mage. She sounds like she's having the time of her life.

But she's not stupid, either. She knows there's no chance of her taking it directly, and her Device knows Hannah's just a hair too slow to dodge aside. Instead, a burst of wind sends Hannah flying back, and she crashes through the window of a jewelry store to skid to a stop. She takes a knee as that laser comes right for her!

Wind magic flows into her right hand, a mini-tornado forming that causes the debris and various bits of furniture to be blown aside. She bought herself the time she needed. There's no shield, no attempt to dodge. No, Hannah puts all of her magic into offense.

That brilliant pink beam slams into her fist as she upper cuts the beam, powerful magics fighting one another! But rather than that broad beam, Hannah's is more concentrated. Slashing winds cut, and are blown back by pink, radiating out in a a wedge shape! She didn't have the time to completely put all of her magic into it, but it's enough to shift that wave of pure power. Magical physics take hold. Hannah is battered, most of her suit is ruined to little scraps, and she's sent flying through a wall into the back!

A dust cloud obscures the battlefield and there's the sound of a building toppling. Pink and green burst through the ceiling of the building, and it's barriered-equivalent is generally ripped in half from the two magical girls. Luckily, all the /real/ world store will have to deal with is a slightly leaky roof.

When the smoke settles, Hannah is leaning against the wall, slowly pushing herself to her feet. Or, what remains of the wall. There's a wedge-shaped bit left, and everything else is pure destruction.

A very tired sounding Hannah /laughs/ and claps her hands appreciatively.

"Yeeesh, Nanoha! You really are the little powerhouse, aren't you!?" She dusts herself off, and frowns. A moment later, with some magic, that suit is good again.

She snaps her fingers as she exits the store and pockets her Device. She's /smiling/.

The barrier falls as soon as she's near Nanoha.

"No finesse, but you've got strength and a really good linker core I'll bet. You could go far. I'd really like to finish this...buuut I need the rest of my magic for the week. I've got a few irons in the fire, you see. Still. I definitely want to fight you again. You're...heh, well, everything I'm not as a mage." There's definitely jealousy in her voice for a moment.

Nanoha Takamachi has posed:
Nanoha Takamachi frowns--- what's scary is that after that--- Nanoha still reads as having a lot of mana to spare. Thee's a potential for her to use it again.

She in fact- seems to be readying another spell, another circle forming under her--- "W--why are you----"

Oh--- she's stopped-- and the barrier's gone. Her magic spells gets canceled and she lets herself hover downawards and she lets her barrier jacket fade and Rising Heart returns to it's little marble form. She pockets it protecticly. She frowns.

"I'm not that special..." she says.

Yuuno disagrees but doesn't say it outright.

"----fine... we'll talk later....."

She pauses...

"...you're not going to stop coming by now.. right?" she asks with a smile suddenly.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah's brow rises quizzically.

"Not spe...I'm not sure if you're being humble, or if you're just in denial." No, Hannah doesn't hold back in scathing commentary.

That brow rises further. "Stop coming? Why? I just found one of the best sparring partners I have ever seen! If I keep fighting someone with your energy levels and punch, there is no way I /won't/ get stronger! You will too. Hate to say it, but you suck up close. And besides, you're a good kid, you're endearing, and I think Boris likes your little space hamster." Reeeeach! She'll try to drag Nanoha into a noogie!

She winks. "Let me let you in on a little secret, Nanoha. Yeah, I do things people don't like me for. And I probably deserve what I get. But I respect people like you with the spine to stand up for what they believe in. I might be a little twisted, but I really just want to make this world a better place." She finally lets go.

Shrug. "So if you have a problem with what I do, come stop me any day of the week. My ambitions are just what I have to do so no one has to go through what me and Ao-chan did. And what's a few lasers to the face and kicks to the butt between friends, right?" Grin!

"Now come on, I think you blew up my coffee back there." Yaaaawn.