Still numb from surprise, Hikaru leaned against the wall herself. She glared at Shion; as if this coincidence was his fault at all. Then he began to speak, and she felt her control of the situation vanish as she stared fixedly at the ground. Her face was almost definitely bright red. Strangely, the numbness seemed to intensify- she would have expected to be more aware of her body right now, but instead… she just felt an overwhelming nothing. It was starting to concern her, but before the Mednin could think seriously about her symptoms the boy finished his sentence with a sickening suggestiveness.
Suddenly, white-hot, righteous anger burst from her forehead, from the point directly under her headband- the spot her aunt had placed the seal to contain whatever had happened back at the Amari complex dojo. She retorted naturally, almost as if the voice that came from her mouth was her own,
“Be quiet.”
It was over in an instant. The numbness faded, and the echo of that assertion didn’t sound as foreign to her as it had at first. Hikaru closed her mouth and leaned off of the wall- still deliberately ignoring the alley beside them- and resolved to leave time to think about what just happened for later. Shion was still talking. She retrieved a slip of paper from her pocket cooly and began to write his description down, with a faint trace of color remaining on her face. Finally, she conceded,
“Yes, you can go- I won’t keep you here any longer.” The Mednin spoke the last part with a bit of ice in her voice, but she knew she wouldn’t be able to keep him around for questioning any longer. Besides, she felt a very particular dislike within her for how… ok he was, with ‘trouble’ as he had called it.
She leapt back to the rooftops herself, a few moments after he departed, and hurried away from the alleyway towards the police station with the man’s description in-hand. Whatever had happened back there with the seal, as well as the reason she needed a seal in the first place… she had to find out what was going on.
[Topic left... you scallywag.
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(also just, like, imagine there's a headband on her forehead in the picture)