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[A drawn out yawn before...] What did I even miss... [Rin is up now, for the first time in... a while. He'd been sleeping a lot before then with intermittent periods of being awake for short hours. And now, for once, he doesn't want to sleep more. Not the lead because he's really hungry, having not really eaten for the past three days... or seen Shiemi or Skarmy in the house. Or anything. Really, the thing which immediately stood out when he finally got up and wasn't sleeping was that someone (probably Eleanor) had put a huge stack of homework by his bad.

That said, he's eating cereal now, and isn't feeling the need to nod off again despite being up almost an hour (he even showered) which is why he's using his journal]

Sorry, uh, work 'n school people and Wolverine. My bad - I guess I got really sick or something. Shiemi was takin' care of me most of the time too so sorry to any of her friends. [A pause as he chews his cereal and...] Who wants to do... anything? I've actually been sleeping way too much and I wanna stretch my legs.

[ And anyone can tell him what he missed, win-win.

Which of course means there's sidebar action as he goes to Seventh Heaven, next door, the Dome, the Item Shop and other assorted places to see what's what.]

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How soon?

I don't know, when are you open?

Any time. Always.

[ She's not exactly a busy person. ]

Then fine, this afternoon.

I'll be waiting.

[ And she will. Because being not busy, she can take her time heading over there starting right now. ]

The forest is really big you know. Where in the forest, do you mean?

Where we were last time. Or have you forgotten already?

I don't memorize the whole forest perfectly, you know.

The western edge of the forest.

... Fine, I'll be waiting for you.

I'll be waiting.

[ Because she's going to get there first.

At least that's the plan. ]

[ Well she will because. He set a time.

So she can show up at any point before that time. Or rather ten minutes after that time ]

[ Well, she really has little better to do with her morning. After checking on her flowers, she heads out to the western edge of the forest and settles down.

By the time he shows up, she's already grown bored of looking through her journal. It lays discarded next to her, and instead she's watching the shadows at her feet, though she looks up as Rin approaches. ]

You showed up.

Yeah! I said I would, so of course I would! It's not like it's surprising or nothing!

[ He says this, tapping his sword in the scabbard against his shoulder ]

I thought you might not show up. What with what happened last time.

[ Admittedly the battle didn't go her way quite as much as she's implying, but.

Saten takes a couple steps forward, and though she doesn't spread the shadows out from her feet just yet, they are already noticeably blacker than the surroundings. ]

Ready?

[ Having a better gauge of her opponent means she doesn't need to be quite so cautious this time. ]

Why wouldn't I show up?! Of course I'm ready! [ And he takes out the sword, making ready to draw it with a wide smirk-smile. He's confident! Sort of! Jeez, things weren't that bad last time ]

[ No but she won and that's what matters to her. ]

Perhaps fear.

[ The darkness at her feet spreads outwards now, reaching a couple feet past Rin even though it's a bit farther than what comes easily to her at this level of power. She gives him not two seconds before raising a hand and sending a pulse of dark energy his way.

If there's one thing that she remembers, it's to keep him at a distance as much as possible. ]

[ Jeez, are we starting already?! When the shadow moves though, he draws his sword and transforms - the first thine he does is leap thirty odd feet into the air on a standing jump to get atop one of the trees, in hopes of avoiding that whole thing where he seemed to get stuck before. He'll counterattack from there ]

[ He did say he was ready.

The shadows don't pursue him up the tree. It's too much effort for not enough gain, and she mostly uses them for movement, anyhow. Instead she aims another attack up at him, this one directed at the branches beneath Rin's feet.

If he falls and gets hurt, it's indirect enough that she shouldn't take the damage herself. ]

Alright, let's do this! [ And he leaps off the tree, before the next attack impacts. His flames light up more bright as he brings himself down off it in a bit of a frontal roll, trying out his new idea: to launch a wave of blue fire off from his sword in her direction. He'd never try it on a human, but this is ~~Satan~~ Saten, and she's shown she can handle herself.

The downside to this if, of course, he'll need to touch down within her mass of shadows]

[ And she's well aware that she doesn't want that touching her. The full wave of flames makes it too wide an attack for her to want to shield herself against it; it's better to just get away.

She crouches down, and a moment later she's vanished into the darkness. Saten wants to keep Rin off-balance, so when she reappears, its about ten feet away and behind to his left. It takes a second for her to regain her bearings and realize where Rin's landed.

Might as well go with what worked before, and she tries to snag him with her darkness like before. ]

[ but he was expecting that. Sort of. And given his flames can burn anything, he just unleashes a strong burst of them around him as soon as he feels the darkness creeping up to snag hi, figuring that this will prevent it from causing problems, like last time. ]

[ Not entirely.

Though it does weaken the tendrils, they're being sustained by her energy, so they're replenished even as they're damaged and thus don't burn away completely.

Her forte is not, in fact, long-distance fighting, so even though she has the ability to do so, her versatility with it is rather limited. And since the needles were ineffective last time and Saten hasn't yet been worn down at all, she's going to try the direct approach.

A couple seconds later she appears behind Rin, this time only feet away from him. Far enough to not be caught in his flames when she's re-solidifying. She quickly lunges in, darkness in her hand formed into a long, thin blade, risking the flames in order to try to get a slice at his right arm.

Even if she actually manages to cut it off, she's not worried about the synchronization. When she has enough power she can reattach her own limbs. ]

[ Does it connect?! ... It does connect because he didn't have any sort of awareness that she was there until it's much too late. However, the flames he had been using before now were controlled - and when the blade connects, he does let out a large wail of pain -- but more importantly, a sea of blue fire shoots out for over fifteen feet in all directions around him, burning pretty much everything within that area.

But it also makes him drop his sword because he's a rightie. So you know, that's nice.

Ow ]

[ It would be nicer if there weren't suddenly flames everywhere.

Saten was aware that her attack might get immediate retaliation, but she wasn't expecting that. It sears pretty much her entire front before she vanishes again, gone before she's even had the chance to pick a destination. Luckily for both of them, she goes for about the farthest edge of her current darkness from Rin, not wanting to give him the opportunity for another follow-up attack.

She's glad that she didn't take his arm off entirely. She wouldn't be able to handle suppressing that on top of the burn. She'll just be hanging out over here, waiting for those flames to settle down, healing what she can of the burn while letting her right arm bleed. She's a leftie. ]

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