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( open ) i'm looking up my symptoms

⭐ Who: Illya and you!
⭐ When: The first half of April
⭐ Where: In the Dream Sphere
⭐ What: Of course powers go wild just when Illya decides to practice..

[ Illya knows she has to get stronger. Considering the sheer amount of those wild Disturbances they've had lately, the girl knows she has to try and practice more, especially when she knows she still isn't very strong at all compared to other Dreamers.

Hence why you might come across the young girl if you're out in the Dream Sphere. Dreamer Prisma seems to at least have moved on from the zones that are for utter beginners, but she's still sticking to anything that doesn't rise above a medium level of risk for now.

.. though Prisma might not be the first thing you'd notice if you encounter her. No, rather than the young Dreamer, there's a ball of energy - which you might recognize as her standard attack, if you've seen it - heading your way. Not flying through the air as it always does, though. No, it's.. bouncing across the ground like a kangaroo, weirdly enough..?

It hasn't reached you yet, so there's time to dodge or otherwise avoid it, but there is a shriek of: ]

W-Watch out, they bounce!

[ That's definitely Illya's voice. And she sounds so alarmed, even though it's not like this bouncing ball is super threatening or anything.. It's like the world's most anticlimactic horror movie. ]

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A game..

[ It sounds like she's considering the suggestion, at the very least! It helps that she's got a big enough impression of Omen as this wise adult that she doesn't think he could be wrong about that one.. There has to be at least some merit to the suggestion if he's the one making it.

So she slowly nods. ]

I-- I guess I could do that. Do you think other people would like a game like that..?

[ You'd imagine Prisma would have more recent hands-on experience with that, being younger and all, but.. well, she's also kind of friendless on top of it, so she isn't really used to playing games with other kids. ]

Sure, could be fun! When I was a kid, we'd usually train together by...I guess play-fighting, a little. It's sort of like that. Do people still do that?

[The last is blurted out, as Bruno realizes he said "we" and doesn't really want to talk about that.]

[ The girl frowns. ]

I'm-- I'm not sure. I haven't..

[ .. She's clearly struggling with something.

Which might be a good thing for him, considering she seems so distracted by it that she isn't bothering to question his little we there. For now, anyway. ]

I haven't had friends to do that with.. [ She definitely looks ashamed to admit it, but she also doesn't want to just outright lie to an adult, which would be the only other way out of this. ] So I wouldn't know.

Ay, yeah. I don't really hang out with anyone anymore either...

[Shrug. It is what it is. But it shouldn't be that way for her, she's just a kid!]

Well, you wanna come up with a game, then?

[ There's a soft, kind of surprised sound at that first part. It leaves Prisma to stare at the older Dreamer, even after he's already moved on to ask that question. He doesn't hang out with anyone anymore? .. Is it because he's an adult..?

Fortunately for him, there's no time for her to ask that question when Prisma realises there's another question waiting for her instead. ]

Oh! Um.. [ ... ] Are you saying you'd like to play a game together, sir..?

[ He seems like he might think he's a little bit too old for it, since he does seem like a Proper Old Adult and all.. But there's something a little hopeful in the girl's tone too, like she'd really like it if he'd agree to it, but also like, at the same time, she doesn't dare to show that too much. ]

[Thank GOD tbh]

Yeah, sure, that sounds fun!

[Bruno knows he's probably a little too old for it, but that's more about his knees than anything else. He's got mad Uncle Energy.]

Okay, then.. maybe we can play! And if other people see it and think it's fun, then maybe we'll have solved the problem..!

[ .. hopefully, anyway?

She sure hopes they can solve it that way. She's terrified about causing some sort of problem here, just because she can't get her powers under control.. But maybe they can find a way to make the big balls of energy look a little bit less terrifying.

Even if it's hard. Because Illya - a particularly small girl - definitely thinks they're terrifying. That ball is absolutely dwarfing Prisma at the moment. ]

I wonder what sort of game we could play with them though.. [ Especially when she has so little experience with games. Especially games that involve multiple people. It means she has to frown, trying real hard to think of what people might do with a big bouncing ball like this. ]

Huh...

[Yeah, that is a thought...]

Bowling? Dodgeball? Those are two, uh, totally opposite games...

[ Well, dodgeball with something like this seems terribly scary to Prisma. So that's likely why it takes absolutely not even a moment of hesitance before the girl already says: ]

Let'sgoforbowling!

[ Like she's trying to exorcise the thought of dodgeball from the other's head entirely.. Please, words cannot describe how little she wants to play dodgeball with a giant ball of magical energy. Throwing the ball away sounds much better than seeing it head for you. That seems like a nightmare! ]

We just need to find something big enough for a big ball like this to knock over..! [ Because that's the other half of bowling, right. They may have a ball ready, but no pegs.. ]

Oh, well...we could just do this.

[He gestures vaguely, and a bunch of crystal rats pop out of the ground again. This time, they scramble up on top of one another to form a tall, thin pillar. They're made out of rocks, they can do that a lot easier than a bunch of real rats could.]

.. oh!

[ His little rat buddies again!

Somehow them appearing like this keeps being impressive to her, even though she's seen it plenty of times by now.. Her eyes go wide just watching the rats climb into a pillar. Or, you know, the rock rats.

But despite knowing that they clearly look like they're just made out of crystal-- ]

Are you sure it won't hurt them? [ Yes, she's very concerned about his magically constructed rats. Sue her. Call it youthful innocence. ]

Oh, yeah.

[His tone is comforting. He gets it; of course he does, the whole reason his power is like this is because he keeps pet rats! Well, at least, he assumes that's why. Bruno creates just one rat at his feet, stooping to let it climb into his hand and hold it out to her.]

I used to worry about that too. But they're just rock, see? Or whatever I make them from. They aren't really alive or anything. [He touches it lightly, like he's petting it on the head regardless of his own words.] I've, uh, known other Dreamers who can make constructs like that before. Other animals, or plants. It's all pretty much the same, we can't make anything really alive.

[ The girl moves closer, holding out her own hands - like she wants to try and take the rat on her own hand if it'll let her, apparently not afraid of the little rock creatures at all. ]

But they seem so alive!

[ She is taking his words for it, though. It's just that her observation also feels really true. ]

I kind of wonder where the line is between these and actually alive rats then.. [ It's enough to make a young girl like her pretty curious. Especially since she isn't that familiar with Dreamer powers yet, considering how straightforward and simple her own still are at this age. ]

Yeah, they do. You wanna hold it?

[Bruno will transfer it to her hands if she wants! And...well, she's certainly not wrong. He did used to worry about that. Just...well, he doesn't really think he has the ability to create things with souls, just out of nothing like that. That'd be kinda obnoxious, right?]

I've thought maybe...they're based on memories of actual rats. Things I, uh, know about them and stuff already. [He's maybe brushing up against a line here, people know he owns rats - ] But, uh, it's not like I've personally known...hundreds and hundreds of them...I can make a lot when I need to.

[ Thankfully Omen's secret is safe with the girl. Mostly because she definitely doesn't know enough about his human form to know that he owns rats, so there's no way she's making the connection right now.

Instead she's letting the rat onto her hands, staring at it with the same fascination that always appears on her face when she sees him summoning these familiars like that. ]

I guess that would make sense.. Maybe they're just appearing as the way you see rats in your mind. [ So they don't all individually have to be based on actual rats out there. More just a general idea. ]

.. do you think rats are cute? [ That would explain, for example-- ] I think your rats look cute..

Yeah! And they're really smart, too! And, uh, actually really clean - all that stuff about them's just a stereotype.

People say they're dirty?

[ Apparently this is news to her, since she looks a little bit surprised.

Though-- hey, look! He's managed to distract her from her ball problem, apparently. There's only rats on the mind now! ]

But I mean-- they're just kind of like hamsters, right? Like longer hamsters! And people don't think hamsters are dirty-- or, um, I think they don't.

I don't think so. It's just...people don't like rats? I guess because you can get them if your house is dirty, though - though even then, that's usually mice.

[Maybe in big cities or something? Though he doesn't see them around Yumemigaoka at all.]

Well, I think they're cute!

[ And it sounds like she's definitely made her mind up on that one. She's not going to stand for anyone calling rats dirty when his are so utterly adorable. ]

It's my first time holding one, but it kind of makes me wish I could have one as a pet! [ .. even though Dreamer Omen's summoned rats are.. probably still a little bit off from the actual reality of rats, given what they're made of.. Illya may not have the entirely right kind of expectations because of it.

At least she's enthusiastic though. ]

Oh, yeah, they're - they're good pets! I'd, um, research it first if you're thinking about getting some, though. If you go to a regular pet store, they're...not really so good for information. Especially on smaller animals like that.

[ She blinks. ]

They're not?

[ It's apparently a wild concept for a girl who's been raised to trust adults like that.. Even the ones running pet stores.. ]

Why is that? I mean.. um.. why would they be running a pet store if they didn't know everything about pets? [ That'd be like a librarian knowing nothing about the books at the library! ]

Oh, well...it's just a big chain store, right? So they don't hire people based on qualifications so much. They're really more about selling pet supplies.

They don't hire people who know about pets at the pet store?!

[ The young girl kind of sounds like he just told her that Santa Claus doesn't actually exist.

.. even though she's too old to believe in Santa anyway. ]

But that's so sad for the poor pets! M-Maybe I should study pets and then go work at the pet store instead?! [ SHE'S DETERMINED TO SAVE THEM.. Save the cute little rats at the pet store.. ]

Uh - well, hey, if you want. Or you could even open your own!

I'll have to think about it..!

[ Potential new dream unlocked..

Then again, at Illya's age, kids have so many of those.

Still, to return to the matter at hand-- ]

.. um, thank you for helping me so much today. I really appreciate it. And I think I'm starting to feel a little better now.. [ Slowly. She's still worried about how affected her powers are, but.. there's no doubt that he's managed to reassure her at least a little! ]

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