seventh fortune ☆ the fool

[future_sight]

[Video]

[Nozomi comes on over the feed, wearing an interesting hat, her hair tied in a braid to the side instead of her usual pigtails.]

Hi everyone! I know Soulfasting is still a month away, but I wanted to let everyone know that we're selling decorations and masks at my shop, Etteilla. If you want a special order, you'll need to make it pretty soon, otherwise we won't have time to make them.

Also, in honor of the holiday, I'll be doing tarot card readings for ten percent off, or fifteen if you buy anything from the store. We're open throughout the day. Come see us!


[Action; Open to all]

[Etteilla, nestled in the middle of Ninetails Vale on a busy street corner, is particularly busy today. One of the big places to go for Soulfasting supplies, Nozomi, along with Mithra the Nidoking and Coeus the Reuniclus, are busy at work. While the first two are selling their normal wares along with decorations, Coeus seems to be working on something else, an easel set near the cashier's desk. There are paintings near him, all with price tags. They range from people, to other pokemon, to landscapes, and while they are certainly amateur works, they're not bad. He seems very proud of them, at least.]


[Action; Locked to Eri]

[It was late, and Nozomi was restless. Something had been on her mind lately. After sharing a vision with Rei Hino, she found she couldn't stop thinking about it.

Seeing herself perform on stage, standing with others, it seemed more than a bit out of character for her. But despite this, she got the feeling that she was enjoying herself. There was a warmth that she hadn't felt before, something that was hard to place.

What was the purpose of that vision? Who were the others standing with her, dancing with her? She felt that most of them were familiar to her, if not close.

Her cards were being difficult. They always were when she was on the brink of a breakthrough. Leaning over the array of cards, her mug of coffee steaming not too far away, Nozomi sighed heavily. She should go to bed, but this was going to bother her in her dreams if she didn't get it figured out.]


[Voice; to Maya]

[Sometime between 2 and 3 in the morning, a voice transmission comes in over her warp band. Nozomi sounds surprisingly quiet, her voice a little less confident than usual.]

Mayocchi? Are you around?

Comments

[psychicsister]

Really?

[Yakumo peers at the two masks, reaching out to take the Duskull one and putting it over her face. Smiling brightly, she can't help but ask.]

How do I look? Frightful?

[future_sight]

[Is adorable okay? Because adorable is more apt.]

It suits you~!

[psychicsister]

Does it?

[She blinks and pulls it down.]

Let me try the other one. [She'll do so, if allowed.]

Which...is better, do you think?

[The answer is probably Duskull, because that hat with her hair just looks ridiculous!]

[future_sight]

Hmmm.

[Well, it wasn't about how she felt it looked. It was how Yakumo felt.]

I have a mirror in the back if you want to look.

[psychicsister]

That would be nice, thank you.

[She gives her best awkward smile. Girl has a lot of practice...]

[future_sight]

[It's okay, you'll get it eventually.

Nozomi leads her toward the back of the store. More costumes are there, as well as a dressing room, and resting against the wall is a full-length mirror.]

[psychicsister]

[Yakumo follows silently, and tries on each mask in turn. She’s a bit shy, and keeps giving Nozomi some slightly awkward glances…but she doesn’t say anything about it. The shopkeeper seems very nice, after all.

But that doesn’t mean Iori isn’t going to say something. The little cat-creature hops down off Yakumo’s shoulder and wanders over to Nozomi while Yakumo tries to decide. And he looks right up at her and smiles]

Purr! Espurr!

[You are the nice lady who didn’t yell at him and Napoleon, right? He thinks you’re great!]

[future_sight]

[Nozomi laughs a bit.]

Well thank you. But next time you two go out, try to tell your partners where you're going, okay?

[psychicsister]

[Yakumo looks over at Nozomi, a sidelong...but amused look.]

So you have met her, Iori? I thought so.

[The little creature's tail curls and uncurls, but he doesn't lie! He nods.]

He wasn't any trouble, was he?

[future_sight]

Not at all.

[psychicsister]

And how about Napoleon?

[She gives Iori a small smile as she pulls off the Duskull mask.]

[future_sight]

Both of them were pretty well behaved when I met them.

[psychicsister]

Good. That's good.

[Yakumo smiles down at Iori...]

He's a little troublemaker sometime, and with Napoleon he's much worse.

[future_sight]

Really? They seemed fine to me.

[psychicsister]

Well...they can behave around new people...

[future_sight]

So if they knew me, they'd cause trouble?

[Sounds like fun. She likes trouble.]

[psychicsister]

Probably. It seems to be what they're best at. But they are sweet.

[future_sight]

They seem like it.