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"Eh?" Iri looks over at him. For a moment she doesn't know what to make of that statement. It comes to her after a second of thought. She lowers her voice a little and says, "Are you talking about that virus? Yuki told me about it. Do you mean to say that it's gone?"

Iri shakes her head. "No, I believe you. When I first met you, I noticed irregularities in your personality that didn't make sense until I was told about the virus." She stirs the rice in the pan, noticing that it's almost done. "The first night we spoke in this kitchen, you really creeped me out. I didn't want you near me or want you to look at me. Something about the look in your eyes suggested evil intentions. But when I demonstrated one of my first Kaze techniques for you and Sage, there was a definate difference in your personality. You were much nicer and more laid back, I think."

A plate is ushered out of a cabinet via condensed air. It settles on the counter and Iri moves her pan to dump the rice on it.

"Nope, your Protector certainly never told me that. I've never spoken with you, er, either of you, very much until now. Geez, what's with this place and knock-offs of multiple personality disorder?" She shakes head in mock exasperation. Then she looks up at Seph with a teasing grin. "It's nice to meet the real you, then."

Iri looks over to the place of rice and motions with a wing tip. It floats over to a table while she sets about preparing tea. "So, how much do you remember about me? I just wanna fill you in if there's anything you think you might want to know."

"Everything they could see, I could see. My memories belong to this body, this brain, so any memories the virus or the Protector made, I know now. The same was for the Virus when it took over my body." He smiled at her. "It's nice to be able to meet you!"

((sure they do, there's katsucon (in DC), Otakon (in Baltimore), Anime USA (at some hotel thingy), neko con (somewhere in the massachusets or tennessee or something), and um...others. yeah....))

By this time the dome had stopped growing. The glow around Sage's head grew faint until it disappeared completely. The strands of silvery stuff that had been seeping from his third eye fused into the walls of the dome. The tree's that had once been in place where the dome now was were simply gone. If asked, Sage would explain it, but as far as one could tell with normal senses, the tree's were simply not there. The inside of the dome was simple, and cave like. There appeared to be no openings on the surface at the moment.

The squirrels around sage stirred as he did. They followed him to one of the walls, and sat by his feet as he placed a hand on the wall. The wall itself stirred and moved, reshaping into a doorway just big enough for sage to move through without having to duck. Through this doorway, the squirrels scurried into the woods.

After looking around outside, Sage went back into his dome and resumed his meditations at the center.

(( There are lots in Texas. o-chibicon, a big one in atlanta (forgot the name), Yaoicon, and A-con <--really really big... sort of like a moderate anime expo. Where I live there are two. Numa reino con and Mechacon, soon to be a third one I here. And numa reino con is free. ^w^ THAT is just some of the nicer ones in the deep south. ))

-=Neko quietly shuffled through the main room, glancing down at Kohyoh as he walked by, heading toward the porch=-

-=Neko opened the door, and looked back as Kohyoh moved. He smiled softly and walked outside, closing the door behind him. He headed to the fountain, and sat at it's edge, looking up into the cloudy night sky=-

...I really hate waiting...