1290/Stargazing

Stargazing
Date of Scene:	29 March 2016
Location:	Touyama Household
Synopsis:	Reiko and Hoshi talk about Momo, The nature of the Prism Keepers and eat all of Grandpa Touyama's cinnamon buns.
Cast of Characters:	Reiko Touyama, Hoshi Kogane

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Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama has invited Hoshi over to the Treehouse in her backyard because of a few things. First and foremost, it's going to be a clear evening out and there's a little landing that a telescope can be setup on, facing toward's the ocean near Uminari- Reiko doesn't live smack dab on the beach, but it is only a twenty minute walk away- meaning on a nice day with a breeze you can catch the scent of saltwater.

A koi pond has been constructed in the backyard- it isn't filled with water yet. Some sort of enclourse seems to be going around it before it gets acclimated it seems.

Reiko has aquired Grandpa's Cinnamon Buns as a snack- and a jug of milk with two cups sits on an overturned milk crate. Blankets on the ground of the treehouse give a nice place to laydown or sit. It has a roof-- the treehouse looks like a big box with a small peaked roof.

There's no real 'Furniture' in here- old milkcrates seem to take the roll of tiny tables and chairs--- they're easier to bring up than old chairs or a small table up a tree!

Not much has changed about the clubhouse, Reiko's done a good job of keeping it in shape since the last time Hoshi would had been up here some years ago-- some boards look replaced-- some nails newer than others.

Of course, the visit in the slowly encroahcing nighttime isn't just about stargazing tonight.

Reiko has concerns, and she's sort of sitting with her knees up against herself as she looks over to the landing.

"I'm really worried..." Reiko says.

"About Momo." she says quietly.

Hoshi Kogane has posed:
Hoshi knows it's not, she can feel Reiko has concerns. But, she works on setting up the telescope just right while waiting for Reiko to be ready to spill. Until then, pressuring Reiko won't help. She's just about done when Reiko does bring up what it's about. "Oh?" She gently asks for clarification, "Why?"

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama shoves a cinnamon bun right into her mouth when Hoshi asks and she does that 'hurrying up to chew, chug milk, ow that hurts going down because it's too much' motion as she shakes it off and sighs.

"Mei made it clear to me that Momo is to be kept away from... well...."

"...Magic Stuff..."

"But. It seems like it's unavoidable now. If she's getting involved in things like what that girl was talking about---" she says softly.

"Mei is going to kill me, you know, if Momo gets her Chroma Prism. I wonder if she'd even talk to me again."

"Oh.. right."

"She's Pink, but you've probably already figured that out. When-- this all started. Roy knew who three of the Prism Keepers were, 'for sure'-- Mei, Momo and Me. We weren't sure on the others- but it's pretty clear that-- it's everyone that was involved with the game now." she sighs and blows upwards with her mouth, causing her bangs to dance a bit.

"--and that's not even the fallout of what'll happen if she finds out her big sister is a magical girl, too..."

"Considering what Sachiko's been saying about things like that." she says grumpily.

Hoshi Kogane has posed:
Hoshi listens to her friend talk, patiently and without judging. She sits down next to Reiko and wraps an arm around her friend. "Mei also wanted to keep you and me away from magic stuff." She reminds her friend, gently. She keeps her voice warm. "And think about all the friends we made, the things we've been able to help with that we'd never have if she had managed to keep us away from it."

She releases a little, letting go of Reiko and looking around. "Do we have the right to make that choice for Momo-chan?" She shrugs, "I'm sure Roy and Biv know as well as we do what Mei thinks about this, if they think it's right for Momo-chan, and she wants to... then she should be allowed to, and if Mei gets mad she needs to get off her high horse. You can't let her push you around like that."

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama looks down. "I guess so.." she says quitly as she sighs and leans against Hoshi. She closes her eyes and still 'grumps' a bit. "I've met a lot of nice people and friends." she says softly. "It's just..."

"Mei feels 'responsible' for all this. Like. She wrote the story. It came true. So it's her fault for writing this story in the first place. That's how she sees it." she admits. "--when if that was true-- I'd share some of the blame because I /drew/ all that too."

"I don't really feel too bad about it like Mei. I mean. Stories you write typically don't usually come to life for real." she does stifle a giggle. "So it's not like anyone could had seen that coming." she admits.

"Sometimes I do wonder what 'made it real' though."

She sits back up straight. "I don't know. I'm thinking.. that.. maybe we should at least tell Momo the truth, the more I think about this stuff." she says softly.

Hoshi Kogane has posed:
"And it's good that she takes responsibility." Hoshi starts softly, wrapping her arm around her friend once again. "She just needs to accept that we have our own responsibility too. We chose to take part, all of us, even Momo-chan. And we were given a choice by Roy, too." She then pauses guiltily, "Well except Chouko, but that was an exception."

The other few musings have Hoshi look towards the sky through one of the openings in the treehouse, "We should try to find out. Maybe there's a good reason, maybe it's just coincidence, but looking will help." She pauses, "Momo can already see my stars, she's in this whether we like it or not. We should act like it."

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama thinks. "Maybe there's some people in Virtue I can ask." she says softly. "I dunno what they'd know but maybe something similar has happened before- with something fictional becoming 'real'." she says.

She sighs and bites her lip. "I gotta try to be a good leader regardless-- and I'm not thinking it's right to keep Momo outta the loop anymore." she says softly.

"But at the same time..."

"Ugh."

She slumps against Hoshi, gives a soft hug, before she gets to her feet and walks out onto the landing and leans against the railing.

"Almost nightime proper." she says.

Hoshi Kogane has posed:
"And if not, maybe they could at least come up with ideas on where to start looking." Hoshi agrees, one last squeeze before she gets up her feet and walks towards the railing along with Reiko, pointing the telescope right at the horizon, "Before that, we can go look at some planets." She says cheerfully.

Right as the sun's disk dips past the horizon, she finishes centering her telescope, catching one fairly bright white half-disc very close to the horizon and a much fainter blue dot a little further away. "Go look. Tell me what you see~"

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama nods. "Yeah..." she says softly. She still flumps a lot as she crosses her arms. She blinks as Hoshi joins her on the landing and she peeks at the telescope. She keeps the telescope steady as she peeks through the telescope as she squints. "Oh.. hrm.."

"Mercury and---"

"Neptune..?" she pauses. "No.. Uranus, right? Is that right?" she asks softly as she keeps looking through the telescope. Reiko is a little jack of all tradesy when it comes to this knowledge stuff. Knows a little bit of everything- but not all of everything.

Hoshi Kogane has posed:
"Yeah." Hoshi nods, smiling when Reiko correctly identifies the two planets. "Not all that often those two are that close together. Of course if we focus to the point that we can see details they're still too far apart." She rattles on some more details about the two planets. "What do you think?"

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama softly bends back up properly away from the telescope. She taps her chin , thinking that Hoshi is making some sort of deep point- but Reiko often introspects a lot- it comes with having been doing this mostly alone for a few months- having to think for yourself- apart from what friends you can talk to- like Ikiko or Ayana. Now she isn't so alone.

"Um I feel as if you're trying to make a point about looking at the big picture or something?" she asks sort of meekly with an awkward smile.

"Sorry.. sometimes. This stuff goes over my head."

"Of course, unless you're just showing me planets. Which is a lesson in itself- looking too deeply into anything?" she asks.

"Yeah..." she says. Then she stuffs a cinnamon bun into her mouth. Grabing her milk cup.

Hoshi Kogane has posed:
"I'm just showing you planets." Hoshi giggles a bit when she realizes her friend has been overthinking it, sitting back down on one of the boxes. Everything else they can look at at their leisure, but these two are so close to the horizon, in just a few minutes they'll be gone entirely. "Though I could make a point about it. Like... Mercury and Uranus look really close there, right? In reality, there's only one planet further from Mercury than Uranus, and that's Neptune."

She gets to the point she just made up, "People who look close might be far apart, and people who are really close might look far apart. I know a lot of classmates think Hiroko and I are good friends, but we only hang out because our parents make us."

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama smiles. "Well still, it's neat to see. Even if it's just showing me stuff." she admits. "Most of the time I just look at stuff in my textbooks..." ugh. "That's the worse part about vacation- not having textbooks to read." she admits. "Can't wait for the next term!" she insists.

She head tilts and nods. "Yeah.. Hiroko." she looks down. "Heh..." she says. "I asked her for help about Tadase one time." she admits. "It was really awkward, among other things. I think she just helped me because she knew I was gonna mess it up. At least she hasn't said anything since about it." she chuckles.

She looks down. "I feel bad you know. Still." she admits sheepishly. "About how the game ended and then everyone kind of drifted apart." she grumbles. "I know it's so silly to be upset about something that happened so long ago..."

"I mean. Not-- upset upset? But..."

She shakes her head and sighs.

Hoshi Kogane has posed:
Hoshi shrugs, "It happens. Would I like to keep all my friends forever? Yeah. It's not gonna happen though. People move, people transfer schools." She leans out and hugs her friend, "So we'll cherish it while it lasts and try to keep it going for as long as we can. That's all we can do."

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama smiles and gives Hoshi a hug back. "I just wish Mei was here. I'm sure she'll come back eventually." she says softly. She sits back down near the landing as she looks back up towards the sky as she squints at it.

"I get that I guess." she says a little sadly. "But still can hope, right? Even if it's silly hope~" she says a little softly.

She lays back with a huff.