Fifteenth Case

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

[ not too far from the inn, Kazuha is taking inventory of... a bunch of omamori and various assorted charms. ]

Mmm... it feels like a lot more people need these than the last time I did this. But I didn't think I'd still have all of these from the trips and the time Heiji got sick and everything... I was going to give the innkeeper one, too, but... maybe Ai-chan will want one.

-- Aha, I remember these! They were supposed to be for good luck and keeping anything bad from happening, and this one was for getting lost, but I bought that one before I came here.

... Obviously didn't work.

((Just strolling through fuck-my-canon lane, but if you're a friend of hers and you haven't gotten an omamori yet or you just feel like chilling with her, feel free to hit her up.))

Comments

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

It's true! I could show you, if you like?

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

Sure, go for it.

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

[Holds out her hand that she isn't trying to hide.] Got a coin or something? Flat broke, I'm afraid.

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

[ digging in her pocket for a coin and dropping it in her palm ] Does that work?

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

Yep. Now watch.

[Holds up her hand, palm flat, the coin quite obvious. Then she slowly closes her fingers over the coin, not moving her hand otherwise.] One, two, three! [And she opens her fingers again, hand not moving at all, but the coin is gone!]

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

--! Hey, you're good!

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

It's just a few tricks. [And closes her hand again and when it opens, the coin is there again.] What kind of coin is this, anyway? [Looks at it curiously.]

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

It's a 500 yen coin. Do you want to keep it?

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

[Looking it over.] ...can you buy anything with it? [Because that's what coins are for, aren't they?]

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

You... can in Japan.

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

...where's Japan?

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

... Where are you from?

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

...Colorado.

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

America?

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

[Pauses.] North America, that's right. [She had to think for a second.]

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we're a bit of a ways from you.

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

Really? How far?

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

Thousands of miles.

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

Wow. That is far.

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

Well, they're different countries, after all.

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

I know that. I've been to all the states. Except that one cold one and those two islands.

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

That's a lot of traveling.

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

My mom has to travel a lot for work. [Really easy lie to do. She's told the story over a hundred times by now.]

[charmcuffs.livejournal.com]

What's she do?

[youngest-halfa.livejournal.com]

I dunno. Something about checking different branches for corporate. Or something like that. [Shrugs. Another deliberate move. She didn't want to seem to know too much about her 'mom's' job so she couldn't be pressed for details.]