Okay, I was wrong, there is ONE thing I want to comment on, this scene,
among many greats, was just AWESOME!

"Huh? Ready? Late?" Ranma let Jun guide her down the stairs. This
didn't seem to be related to this morning's events. "What are we late
for?" She rounded the corner at the bottom of the stairway and looked
back over her shoulder to the green-haired maid behind her. "Grandma
never mentioned anything about going out some... *ERK!*"

"RANMA!"

Ranma barely had time to register the presence of the approaching body
before she was enveloped in a crushing hug. Her vision was almost
totally obscured by the swaths of cloth surrounding her and it took
several seconds for her to finally register the identity of the voice's
owner. She stiffened.

"M ... mom?"

Nodoka kissed the top of her neo-daughter's head before pulling her in
even closer. "Shhhh. It's alright, son, I know all about it now." She
tried and failed to blink back eyefuls of tears. After all those lonely
years ...

"MOM!"

Nodoka winced when her son-turned-daughter wrapped her shorter arms
around her and squeezed. The nearly unbearable pressure released almost
instantly, replaced by a tolerably fierce embrace. The mother and her
female son stayed wrapped around each other for an indeterminate time.

"No-chan? Ranma-kun?" Aiko's voice rang out from across the foyer.

The Yamada matriarch sighed - those two were dead to the world right
now. She glided over to the pair and poked a particular spot in the

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Druid
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