Mmm... my mind's not all there right now, so...
Totally Seriously Prediction Time™:
"Let me confirm your schedule, Tomoe-sama," intones Sabrina, making a slight bow towards Mami.
"You don't have to..." Mami tries to wave her off, though she can't contain a smile, "you're already carrying my bag..."
"As is proper, Tomoe-sama," answers Sabrina with a firm nod of her head.
Mami covers a giggle behind her hand, "you don't have to call me that, you know? You can call me just Mami."
Sabrina huffs. "Now that would be improper."
A light speed wink dispels Mami's sudden frown. Instead, she covers her mouth daintily and lets out a restrained laugh, "ho ho ho~..."
Sayaka stares, dumbfounded.
Somewhere to the side, Homura sighs.
The bleunette's eyes stay glued to the scene playing between two of her friends.
Madoka looks back and forth, wondering whether she should comment.
But Mitakihara's newest Magical Girl's attention is solely focused on...
Damn, Mami can make a fine Ojou laugh.
And Sabrina...
"Where can I get that?" Sayaka finally explodes, though not loudly, it wouldn't do to interrupt the magic going on.
Homura stumbles.
Madoka stares, questioningly.
Sayaka signals to the duo walking in front of the group. "A maid dress! It's so cool!"
In a strange moment of synchronicity, both Madoka and Homura tilt their heads just so, before turning to look at each other.
Homura looks away first.
"Do you think Hitomi's got one of those at her home?" ask Sayaka.
"Eh?" Madoka stutters, "I guess?"
The blue haired girl frowns, looking down, "I mean," she mutters to herself, "they're rich and all, but that'd be kind of embarrasing, to just ask..." she looks up at her pink friend.
Looking a little out of her depth, Madoka chooses to smile encouragingly.
"Oh!" Sayaka exclaims, "I know! Maybe Sabrina's got a spare I can borrow? Yeah, that makes sense..." she nods to herself. "... Do you think she'll just lend it to me if I ask?"
"Sabrina is... very nice?" Madoka kind of but not quite answers the question.
Sayaka rolls her eyes.
"Hugs."
"What?" Madoka and Sayaka turn to Homura.
The dark haired girl spares a glance for the blue one, "hug her before you ask," she states. While Madoka and Sayaka wonder at this bit of wisdom, Homura nods to herself, "excuse me," she sighs, "I need to inform Sabrina that her latest plan failed horribly..." saying so, she hurries up to catch up with the aforementioned Magical Girl.
>>
"Megucard?" asks a violet haired girl.
"Yeah," answers another wearing a white hoodie, holding said card, "all sorts of benefits -just got a free lunch, actually- and apparently it can also clean your Soul Gem."
"Bullshit," states the violet girl.
"I guess..." her probably-friend answers, "hey, give me your hand for a moment?" she asks suddenly, holding her own hand out.
"Uh, OK?" Violet agrees-
The hooded girl taps the card on Violet's ring-
"Hey!" Violet flinches back as if shocked.
It quickly becomes real shock for both girls when a stream of miasma flows out of the Magical Ring on Violet's hand.
The girl holds her hand in front of her face, looking it this way and that, clearly worried, before, with a thought, her ring becomes an egg-shaped gem -completely pristine.
"Hey, it worked!" cheerfully says the girl in the white hoodie.
"..." Violet blinks, "... DON'T YOU JUST GO TRYING RANDOM STUFF ON ME!" she explodes.
The other girl covers her ears, "sorry, sorry..."
>>
"IT WAS ME, FEATHERS WAS I, AND I WAS SHE, AND THIS WAS SO ALL ALONG!" yells Walpurgisnacht, before bursting in demented laughter.
The assembled group of girls look at each other.
"Well..."
"KNOW THAT I HAVE BEEN THE HARBINGER OF DESPAIR, I WHO HAVE WITNESSED THIS ACT WAY TOO MANY TIMES..."
"... Two birds with one stone?"
"... FOR I TIRE OF SUCH REPETITION, AND HAVE SHOWN TO YOU, UNSUSPECTING PAWNS THAT I POSSES THE CAPACITY TO PLAY MANY ROLES..."
"Get it? Birds?"
"HA-HA HUE HUE HUE-HUE-HUE...!"
"No? Well, OK. Dissoluzione..."
"NOW TREMBLE BEFORE MY- WAIT WHAT ARE YOU- STOP- THE PLAY ISN'T OVER Y-"
"... BIANCA!"
Pop!
Without fanfare nor grace, Walpurgisnacht dissolves into a cloud of Grief.
>>
There's an insisting knock at the door.
Sabrina smiles, getting up to get it. Opening the door, she greets, "hello, Homura! How's it going?"
Homura stands at the doorstep, trembling, her legs visibly shaking. Her eyes stare beseechingly at Sabrina's own blue ones, a shadow of an unexpected horror lurking deep beneath them.
In her thin hands, she holds books.
Sabrina's smile doesn't abate, and she wraps an arm around Homura's shoulders, helping her move inside.
Homura lets herself be pushed along.
Sabrina closes the door and squeezes Homura's shoulder comfortingly.
"You weren't gonna just know the whole curriculum forever, you know?"
Homura gulps.
HAVE A CARD *hands her a Megucacard*
