Suggested changes: {before : after}
On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 16:16:48 -0500 "C. Jones" <guilty@furinkan.net> wrote:
"Ytterbium," Cobalt replied warmly, her face alight.
I had been wondering if something had happened to Ytterbium.
Rei didn't even try to figure out what Usagi was talking
about. Utterly overwhelmed by Usagi's request, she sat about trying
to figure out how to youma-proof her house and her sound studio in
the few short hours before the horde arrived.
That must really be a sight. Not youma-proofing, youma-child-proofing! It
was much easier in the Dark Kingdom, just put something outside that would
eat any that escaped. :}P
A couple years ago, when Rei graduated with a fine-arts
major, the show-business world was *supposed* to have opened itself
up to her. She very quickly found out how dense and impenetrable it
really was. While Usagi and Minako managed to find an odd niche with
their children's show, what Rei really wanted was to break into the
Pop {music : Music} scene. The first production company she managed to get an
audition with canceled on her before she ever got a chance.
The real problem now was keeping her recording equipment in
one piece, a task that would be difficult even if real children were
coming to visit, let alone disguised youma.
I'd actually expect youma children to be better behaved. I know my
daughter didn't believe me when I told her the boogie man would get her if
she didn't behave; that wouldn't be a problem with youma children, they'd
seen it happen.
The tall woman jumped when Usagi addressed her. Rei noted
that she hadn't eaten anything and was paying a lot more attention
to keeping herself between Usagi and Cobalt than anything else.
Poor Haruka. She's really having a hard time adjusting to the concept of
friendly youma.
Rei watched Haruka begin to explain some of the finer points
of auto {mechanics : racing} to the children, seemingly forgetting that she had
been, minutes ago, ready to murder them. It was at once chilling to
see her interact with the youma and strangely cathartic to see her
getting along so well.
There was a black, crescent shaped flash in front of her and
Sailor Mars. Out of it stepped two figures, both Sailor Senshi.
Cobalt had not met either of them yet. The tall woman with long,
dark hair was {glad : clad} in black and dark green. The shorter woman, with
short hair, was clad in violet and indigo. Both women carried long
staves. Cobalt, her eyes dazzling in the sun for a second, realized
that one was a polearm. The other looked like nothing more than a
ridiculously large key.
I imagine she's glad to be clad. Aren't the colors in just the skirts,
bows, and trim? I thought the largest part of all their fukus was white.
"No, Ytterbium!" Tin pleaded, biting her thumbnail. "Please!
I'll change! I'll be--"
I guess that explains how the hooded one could get support from people
Cobalt trusted. Why would they suspect her mentor of undermining her.
This makes me wonder how Cobalt turned out the way she did with Ytterbium
mentoring her.
"Listen," Cobalt finally blurted out. "Like I said, I'm not
really sure how the teleport works, but this is how I do it..."
Cobalt doesn't realize how special her abilities are. Without any training
by other teleporters, she has taught hersef how to do it, probably more
efficiently than Beryl's generals did it. And because she didn't know the
rose petals Zoisite scattered were a cheat, she figured out how to do the
confetti for real. It would be interesting to see what she could create if
she wasn't trying to teleport at the same time.