Log: Ongoing

[silence-bringer.livejournal.com]

When; January 12th, evening
Rating; PGish?
Characters; Lyra Silvertonguelyra_of_dust, Tomoe Hotarusilence_bringer
Summary; With Lyra mentally battered and emotionally torn from Cobray's accusations, Hotaru tries to help.
Log;

She carefully made her way to the door of Flat #37 of Building #5. Taking a deep breath, she raised a hand to knock on the polished wood.

"Lyra-san? It's..me."

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[silence-bringer.livejournal.com]

The dark-haired girl nodded to Lyra with a smile.

"You're welcome. I'm ..glad that I could help a bit."

[lyra-of-dust.livejournal.com]

"Yeah... Everything that's going on... I can't let it get to me," Lyra shook her head.

"Hotaru... You helped a lot."

[silence-bringer.livejournal.com]

She smiled slightly, tentatively reaching out to ruffle the younger girl's hair.


"You...remind me of a friend I used to have. She had a spirit a lot like yours."

[lyra-of-dust.livejournal.com]

"Really? Who..." Lyra didn't shrink back from Hotaru's touch. Pantalaimon sat calmly in her lap, and she could feel him, giving her strength.

[silence-bringer.livejournal.com]

"Her name was Chibiusa. She was...my first friend. The only one who didn't think I was strange because of my powers. She was a few years younger then you, and even though I tried to get her to go away at first, she wouldn't. I..I'd never had friends before, and I thought that she would be in danger if she stayed around me, because of the attacks I used to have."

She smiled at the thought of Chibiusa's imperious manner as the pink-haired girl had demanded that Hotaru stop acting like that, and stop trying to pretend that she couldn't have friends.

[lyra-of-dust.livejournal.com]

"Powers... Heh. It seems like everyone here has those. I've... sort of been keeping mine a secret... Not because I don't want people to be scared of me, but because I'm scared of people," maybe it wasn't wise to tell her this, but Lyra felt that she could trust Hotaru with her secret.

"Do you know what an alethiometer is?"

[silence-bringer.livejournal.com]

She shook her head.

"No, I've never heard of one."

[lyra-of-dust.livejournal.com]

"It-it's this," she pulled the golden device from the bag she always held at her side.

"If I ask it the right question, it can tell me anything... I'm the only person who can read it easily. Everyone else has to spend years of studying to even start to read it. But I can read it easy... I'm scared that if someone finds out, they'll take it away, or try to force me to ask stuff for them... that's why I don't tell most people about it."

[silence-bringer.livejournal.com]

Hotaru studied the golded wheel with it's dials and numerals. She'd never seen anything like it.

"It...answers questions? How? I've...never seen anything like it."

[lyra-of-dust.livejournal.com]

"Symbols... Each symbol has a whole range of meanings and I can sort of... feel the meanings and put them together," Lyra shrugged.

"It's... like focusing your eyes and looking down into clear water, like stepping down a ladder in the dark-it en't easy to explain."