Conversation Space: The Ultimate

[powersthatbe]

You feel as if you've stepped through a door.

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[rebellioninbloom]

... if there's one thing that is going to put her on guard in a hurry, it's seeing a doppelganger out of nowhere. That's not her reflection, especially not with that voice.

"I've had experience investigating the unusual," she says with a levelly polite tone. "Would I be correct in assuming I'm addressing my ..." captor- "host? Or hostess, as it may be."

[powersthatare]

"One of us," her mirror image says. "The one who's most invested in you. Definitely a hostess, though."

[rebellioninbloom]

Well, she can't say she's entirely surprised. Empress would make sense, but this doesn't look particularly... imperial? Hmm. She starts to mentally slip her 'young businesswoman' front on, for all her heart's finding its way into her throat.

"I'd been wondering when we would have the chance to meet. "

[powersthatare]

"Here we are," the figure says. "Not, exactly, in the flesh, but as close as we're likely to be - except in the ways we're already closer."

[rebellioninbloom]

"This 'marking' or 'claiming' process, I presume?" Haru asks carefully and simply.

[powersthatare]

"That's right," she says. "Mm. And I like that you gave me two options."

[rebellioninbloom]

"I've heard plenty of different perspectives on what happens already," she says. "Though I wouldn't be surprised if I'm missing a whole lot more."

[powersthatare]

"Does it bother you, dealing with unknowns?"

[rebellioninbloom]

"It simply means I have to work harder to uncover what they are," Haru says with a bit of a smile.

[powersthatare]

"And you intend to uncover everything unknown?"

[rebellioninbloom]

"...The things that need to be," she says after a pause. "Some people need their secrets."