Recovery (Open)

[Toritaka Sasaiko]

Sasaiko, after completing some cleaning, finds a calm and quiet place and tries to center herself again.

I did well with it not long ago--but my heart is still pounding! she thinks.

It does not go as well as she might want it to (Meditation 8), however.

Frustrated, and still sweating, she thinks Why am I so fucking stupid at this?

[Kaiu Aiichiro]

He sees Sasaiko meditating and watches at her said without interrupting, even if the attempt apparently was failing by how nervous her posture was. His father always meditated when he was home, but he never asked to be teached on how to do it.

[Toritaka Sasaiko]

Her eyes snap open, and she recognizes Aiichiro.

She bows.

"Sorry about that. How're things?"

[Kaiu Aiichiro]

He bows, too.
"Don't excuse yourself, you did not wrong. Could you help me? I think you would be the best person to do so."

[Toritaka Sasaiko]

"If I can, yes. What's the trouble?"

[Kaiu Aiichiro]

"I think someone is spreading gossip about me. You know what... they talked about." He looked embarassed. "Could you help me track who did it?"

[Toritaka Sasaiko]

"I might be able to, but I have not been attending to rumors. Unpleasant as it might be, my friend, I would need to know what is being said.

"The path of investigation depends on the nature of the crime, after all."

[Kaiu Aiichiro]

"So basically people I never said a hi started to treat me differently, and I noticed people whispering on my back that I'm the nice boy, and... Anyway, I think someone likes me."

[Toritaka Sasaiko]

"You're worried that someone likes you? Isn't that usually a good thing?" she asks.

Boys are so dumb sometimes, she thinks.

[Kaiu Aiichiro]

"Maybe? I don't know." He looks around to see if anyone was eavesdropping. "I mean, what if they do?"

[Toritaka Sasaiko]

"Then they do, and you have either a friendship in the making or a resource to put to the use of your Clan--or both. And that's to the good, yes?"

Unless it's that Mantis boy, she thinks.

[Kaiu Aiichiro]

"I think... Yes. Anyway, thank you, Toritaka-san."
He bows.

[Toritaka Sasaiko]

Boys! she thinks with exasperation.

"Well, it wouldn't be good to have a friend you don't know is one, would it? So I'll see what all I can do to help."

Sasaiko looks about for someone to ask to start investigating.

[Kaiu Aiichiro]

(OOC: Investigation/Awareness? Aiichi would roll 1k1)

[Toritaka Sasaiko]

(Querying GM)