Daisuke Hansuke made a promise- that, when he helped fixed a dog's paw yesterday, he would bring a replacement first aid kit from Verone's store. He has brought that along, walks to the Animal Care Club's door, delivers it with a smile, bows politely, and walks back off down the corridor. He does take a moment to sit on a bench though and taps his chin.
Ami went to Seishou....right? Or.. no--- she... Mentioned a Public School... but she doesn't think she mentioned the name. She wanted to go to a party at Seiyou--- did she go there? Ugh.
He pulls out his phone and starts tapping letters.
Daisu-Kun: Ami-chan, what school did you go to again? Was it Seiyou or Seishou? I'm in Seishou right now!
Autumn is the height of swim season, and Ami dearly loves to swim. Mondays are the only day of the week she doesn't finish her homework before doing anything else; instead, she gose to swimming practice! Daisuke's text comes as she's just finishing getting dressed afterwards and she studies it thoughtfully for a moment. "Homework," she murmurs thoughtfully, then sighs and glances at the clock. Plenty of time for ... a brief idea.
Ami-chan: Meet me on the roof. Fair warning, I'm bringing a friend, and she's a bit forward.
Wringing the water out of her hair, Ami grabs her bookbag and starts for the roof, still with her thumbs on her phone, but this time texting a certain blonde.
Ami: Minako-san, if you want to meet Daisuke, he is on the roof of Seishou. Venus would be best, for your safety. See you there, I hope.
Nearing the roof, Ami hunts for somewhre private, and then pulls out her wand. "Mercury Power, Make Up!"
Moments later, Sailor Mercury emerges onto Seishou's roof.
Minako Aino shows up fast. Really fast. Much faster than she should, although her text message, being at the speed of communication, comes a little faster.
ill be there in a HOT MINUTE
Minako opens the door to the roof in dramatic style, assuming it'll be empty and no administrators will be there to yell at her for kicking open doors. When she emerges, she's in the white top and navy blue of Seishou, tie wrapped around her head like a combat bandana.
"I have arrived!" she announces, just in case Ami is hiding.
Daisuke Hansuke eh. On the roof? That's a silly place for a talk isn't it?, he thinks. Really, he has not been magical for very long because rooftops are where it's it at! AND rooftop hoping! How is he going to get up to the roof? Well....
He sort of steps out back and looks up at the roof and frowns a moment and taps his foot. He holds his hand out and summons the Rod from it's ring form on his right hand and sighs and closes his eyes. He dissapears in a quick flash and reappears on the top. The staff slips back into it's ring form. He looks around. He begins to walk around the rooftop of the building feeling weird as he turns a corner, peeking.
"Hello...?" he calls out.
He feels silly. She hears something. Minako being loud. Luckily, he just announced himself! Better transform!
Sailor Mercury just stares at Minako, then takes a deep breath and lets it out slowly. Very slowly. "Would you please transform?" she asks frustratedly. Then she hears Daisuke's voice, and turns in concern. "Quickly, before he sees you."
Mercury heads in the sound of Daisuke's voice, around the air conditioners, to spy him. "Hi, Daisuke," she says, waving to him. "SAILOR VENUS," she yells more than loud enough to be heard across the rooftop, "is just over here, and eager to meet you. You should Henshin, though, just to maintain your own identity."
Daisuke Hansuke stops...maintain idenity. What? Is that.... a thing he should be doing? He frowns a bit and thinks. He guesses that makes sense but... these are people he's supposed to be trusting. Isn't...hiding yourself...sneaky? "Okay!" he says still out of sight. "But if she wants me out of the transformation, I'm going to do that. I feel... sneaky. And wrong...doing that..." he admits quietly.
He re-summons his staff. Holds it, and thinks a moment- the Rod of Asclepius letting him don an old form he doesn't remember.
He continues around to the sound--- and assuming that Venus has transformed in the meantime, he gives a soft respectful bow to Mercury and Venus. "Hello." he says softly with a smile. His staff is held in an angle in front of him, hung down in front of him in his hand. It's not raised in any kind of gesture. The Rod is a metal staff, with a winding metal snake on it, with purple gemmed eyes. It looks ornate and old.
"I hope you are well, Mercury." he says with a soft smile and another bow. He turns to Venus. "And you are....? Venus?" he asks softly.
He head tilts at Venus as his lips purse. That feeling again. The same one... Deja Vu all over again- but nothing more. It makes him sigh- and momentarily morose for a moment before he shakes the feeling off. "...is your after school period going well?" he asks first off.
Minako Aino/Sailor V is suddenly on the roof, sliding out from behind convenient line-of-sight blocking rooftop terrain. She starts to teeter to a side, as if off-balanced, tilting tilting tilting, but then catching herself, fingers-to-ground, and turning a single lazy cartwheel that seems to threaten to also tilt off before a foot catches it and she smartly rights herself.
"Calm down, Sailor Mercury. I almost went head-over-heels, but I'm sure you didn't," she says with a reassuring grin.
She sees smiles at her and can't help but to smile back even bigger, smiles so big that even a dramatic pose at an angle and hair mysteriously over her face cannot hide its size. "It is true! It is I! Sailor Venus all in my flesh!" she announces. "And thank for for offering to be honest! It helps to engender my trust!"
Then, calmer, she reassures Daisuke that her after school period and her before school period are the best times. Even better than any schooltimes. Ten times better.
"Just finished swim practice," Mercury replies to Daisuke's question. "I was about to go do homework, which I really should get to sooner than later, but I know this is important to you," she says quietly.
And then there's Venus, head-over-heels, and drawing a blush out of Sailor Mercury. Luckily, her blush is overshadowed by her friend's over-the-top self-introduction, which tives Mercury plenty of time to recover. "Sailor Venus, meet ... Asclepius," she says faintly. "He's a healer, and has sworn to defend those who are in need."
Asclepius feels weird when he's called that name. It's a name Tuxedo Kamen called him. He said it made sense because of the staff. He agreed- and it was much better than 'I-don't-know-my-name' and 'Snake Staff'- but the name is familar and evokes a feeling in him he can't figure out. He smiles at Venus---- which yes, gives Mercury time to recover because he's looking at her ostentationess. "Sailor Mercury said you may have questions for me. You can ask me them. I'll answer. If I say I can't answer it...I do not mean 'I won't.'. It means I can't. I know very little of what I am or these Deja Vu feelings." he says softly at Venus.
He looks to Mercury and smiles. "Oh, you're on the swim team!" he says.
Minako Aino gives Mercury a smile and offhandedly mentions Asclepius 'would know all about swimming.' It's said with a wink. She might be confused with 'Achelous'.
"I do have questions, although you could imagine how simple merely asking questions can be beaten," she says, non-confrontationally. "Then again, people generally don't lie to me, 'cuz of the whole 'laser in the eye' threat I can put them under!"
"But I hear you're swearing to defend those in need and you have some supporters who I respect the opinion of," she notes.
"So. Hrmm. What can you say to allay my suspicions?" she asks, strolling next to Mercury and peeking at her cheeks, a little perturbed that it's gone so quick. Too quick for more cleverly insightful puns.
Mercury rolls her eyes just a little at Sailor Venus's antics, but smiles at the other Senshi nonetheless. "You could ask him about the rod, and how he found it," she points out gently.
Asclepius blinks. "I guess? There's not much I can do to make you ask questions...." he admits. "..and you're right. You have no reason to trust my answers. I can't make you do anything really." he says as he closes his eyes and sighs a bit. He opens an eye and smiles at Mercury a bit, making Venus ask questions! Well---Venus doesn't need to ask 'cuz he's going to answer anyways as he opens his eyes again.
Well he was-- but. Um....
"L...laser in the eye?...." he asks. He begins to look rather pale----
He needs a momoment and he takes it. If Venus leaves here not happy with his answers....is she going to shoot him? Ugh his guts now wrenching.
Thoughts bring him back to reality though. Mercury wouldn't allow that. He knows it. He knows that and he takes a deep, anxiety cleansing breath.
"It was in a bunch of items that were left to us by another institution that was donating it to us. I voluntered to put it up in Verone's archives, because the librian asked me nicely for my help. I touched the Rod, I blacked out. I woke up in bed. I had a strange dream. I woke up in bed. I was not in bed when I touched the Rod." he says.
"I have a nightmare, too. It repeats some nights. Coffee usually fixes the sleeplessness." he asides. He's trying to be through.
Minako Aino/Sailor V gives Mercury a nudge and a pout. But not that much of a nudge or pout - that's sort of the answer she was hoping he would give anyway.
"Ok. Ok. Interesting," she notes.
"Get some background on the stuff. All the stuff. Could be a trick, could be a trap, you could be a victim of somethin' bad," she says, counting out on her fingers all the various possibilities out there.
"But I'll give you the benefit of the trust for now," she says, lowering her counting (and possibly laser-) fingers for now.
"But you can get me boring records on paper or whatever. Just leave it in your locker and I'll find it when it's convenient," she says, like that's extra-helpful. "Why don't you talk about these nightmares. When they began? What they're about? How you feel about them? What they make you think?"
Mercury hadn't really asked him that question. Why hadn't she asked that question? The blue-haired senshi straightens her back, staring at Venus thoughtfully for a moment. Then she shakes her head and looks to Asclepius, curious the answer to a question she should have thought to ask days ago.
Asclepius shakes his head. "I did that already. First thing I did, I was worried it was a--- infeciton or something causing dreams and neasuea. I can do that for you, if you want. It's nothing amazing. I was able to trace it to a museum that found it in a dig in another country and it changed hands and institutions and that's it. I'll leave it in my locker--- or I can leave it in my dorm room and Luna can take it. Luna knows where my dorm is. The windows open.
He looks down.
"I can't really tell you the visuals. Everything is shadow and fire. I feel hopeless, scared-- like I failed someone important and everything around me. I feel betrayed. I feel pain and then I wake up." he says. "It's just... a morass of shadow and feelings..." he says softly. "I can't get myself to go back to sleep after it. I just know it's the same all the time." he says. "I'm sorry it's not more helpful...."
Minako Aino gives a little shake of her head. "Psssht, don't feel too bad. Remembering dreams is hard. It's not even a fair question," she notes.
"Dates they happened. Times. How fast after touching the rod. Those sorts of details. Keep a dream journal, write in it right after waking from a nightmare," she offers, saying it a little more forcefully than a suggestion but a touch less than an 'order'. "Then, get in contact with me. You're savvy, I'm sure you'll figure out a way to get my attention," she supposes.
Then, in lieu of another dream-related question, she asks a different one. "I got lots of things I could test you into doing. But if you wanted to earn my trust, what would you offer me?" she asks. "And, just to make it a little easier on you, what can I do for you? Weird magic dreams can be rough on somebody, when they already got homeworks and stuff..."
Asclepius head tilts... "I don't have a dream everytime I blackout...." he says softly. "I do when I lay down to sleep. I can start a journal and try to remember what I've already had- but I can tell you that the nightmare is the same everytime." he says. "The dreams are different. Same deal. More... vaugeness. But feelings. I can see most of where I am to a degree though..." he says.
He looks down to the side awkwardly... "I don't know what I can give you Sailor Venus.... I give a lot, often.... and there's not much I can give to you, or anyone here that would make you trust me." he says softly and weakly.
"I promise it's not my intent to hurt anyone... or hinder anyone.... or hamper anyone... or--- anything like that. I just don't know how I can prove it, because it seems my existence is causing these things sometimes--- and Mercury has assured me otherwise and I am grateful to her for that. But if you belive otherwise, I would like to know...." he asks pleadingly.
Minako Aino/Sailor Venus crosses her arms over her chest and tries to make it look like she's listening kindly and not dwelling on all the terrible things that could happen in the worst-case-scenario list she keeps in the back of her head.
"Fair enough. There's no hurry on the dream journal. It's not like I expect you to take 20 naps tonight and write a report on each!" she says chipperly.
"Just, you know, fill 'er up when you can." Venus spends a few moments biting on her lip, as if in thought. "Well, you need some more confidence. Everybody who can be trusted has something to give that can be trusted. If you give a lot, and you think that giving is important in quality, and not just quantity, then... maybe that'll work!"
She strolls around, leaning out near the edges of the building to look down. "When you got what you need to give, or maybe just wanna help out the illustrious /Sailor V with something, let me know," she says, pulling out a little phone.
"In the meantime, give me your number. I'll give you a call sometime, let you know if I come up with somethin'. And maybe I'll share it with some others who might wanna talk to you," she says, trying to let that last part sound mysterious rather than giggle secretively in Ami-chan's general direction - she succeeds, but only under tremendous force of will.
Mercury tries desperately not to look mortified at the idea of Sailor Venus with Asclepius's phone number. By this time tomorrow, all of the Senshi will have it programmed into their phones; probably as 'Ami-chan's boyfriend'. And that thought makes her blush again and put her face in her hands. She hides there just long enough to recover, then says, "The journal sounds like a good idea. As well, I can try to perform some analysis on the Rod for you, and see if we can't figure out where it came from, and what it can do."
Asclepius looks to Mercury and frowns a little, maybe an unspoken 'sorry' for this of sorts. He hands out his phone for Venus. "Here. Take it. You can put yours in, and you can take mine from it. Mercury can help you with that I'm sure if you can't operate my phone." he says softly.
"I can do that... I'll try to write the dreams I can remember and mark them as unknown date because I can't remember when I dreamed what. Then start keeping it current..." he offers.
He closes his eyes. "I already help every chairity I can find in various capacities. I can always do more. If that'll make you happy...I'll make the time." he says a little sadly, biting his lip. This is a guy that already presses the most out of his time---but this is important too....right?
He looks to Mercury and down to his staff. "You're welcome to do that Mercury." he smiles. "Just let me know and I'll bring it somewhere for you. I can hand it to you right now- I just ask that- it leaves with me. It's all I have for.... anything. I don't particularly feel safe without it anymore." he admits softly. "Unless you have someone willing to watch over me while you have it." he asks. "Luna..or something. I dunno. I'm sure you guys have better things to do.." he says.
Minako Aino/Sailor Venus just makes a little urrrg sound in reply. "Hey, no. Cheer up," she says, trying to encourage a smile by turning up her lips into infectious little grins. "We're not asking you to give up anything. Just break me off a bone to throw," she urges, trying to hush up any dour-sounding, unhappy tones with some excitement!
"And.. nobody is asking you to leave us with anything else. No rods or nothin'. But if you -really- want to, we'll go a step further. No cats for you," she says, chipper and excited.
"You get a whole senshi to watch over you. Heck, you can even pick your favorite!" she adds.
"I can, you know, schedule around it. This seems important enough. In faaaact," she drawls out, poking at buttons on two separate phones in her hands as she acts as if she's in deeper thought than she really is.
"Why don't you just pick out one right now, so in the future, we'll know what sorta' plans we gotta do? /Sailor V believes in truth and justice and courage and lasers, but also in careful planning for the future!"
Sailor Mercury smiles her own encouragement at Asclepius, but really Sailor Venus is much better at this than she is. So instead, she merely nods her agreement with pretty much everything Venus says, and only at the end adds, "I won't ever take it from you, and most of the studying I will be doing is asking you questions or having you do things for me. I can only monitor magic indirectly, even with my visor, so it will be a lot of trial, error, and experimentation."
She doesn't even catch the line about picking his favourite. She does, however, suggest, "There is something you can offer the Senshi, though. If we're injured, can we call on you? You've told me before that the Rod can heal injuries. If that's so, then knowing that the Senshi has someone who can help us recover in our time of weakness would be a tremendous help."
Asclepius just says it. "Yes, you can. If I have never spoken to them before- just- make sure they tell me who they are where they are. You guys... all dress the same. Right?" he motions to the two. "So. That should be easy enough from there. I already know- Mercury of course. And Moon and Tuxedo Kamen was it..?" he asks. "That's it- and well. You, too." he says motioning at Venus.
His eyes peek over to Mecury and back to Venus. His lips grow pursed a moment- perhaps a slight frown. He's begining to... get an undertone here. Of course- he still says it anyways. "Sailor Mercury. I know her. It'll be more comfortable for everyone then." he says softly.
Or should be. But really. He has questions now he isn't going to ask with Venus around.
Minako Aino /Sailor Venus puts a hand on her hip and juts it out to the side. "We all have a similar style, but I sorta' started the trend," she coos out.
But she does seem inspired by Mercury's words. "We could call you for that," she notes, slowly taking the arm so conveniently jutted out in front of everybody and crossing it awkwardly over her front to grasp her opposite elbow. She throws her weight to one side, twisting and making a sickening little bone-crunchy pop sound while simultaneously tugging her arm out. She lets it drop and it hangs a little lower than her other arm.
She probably didn't really dislocate her arm, but she makes a good play at it. "Can you... fix this?" she asks, only putting on a pained expression after a few seconds pause.
Then, belatedly: "And of course. We'd all be comofortable keeping an eye on you, but Miss Mercury! Good choice. She's clever and helpful and always willing to jump right into it with us. And definitely the cutest senshi. Did I mention that yet? She has her charms," she boasts, happier than somebody with a dislocated shoulder should be.
Sailor Mercury blushes just a little when she realises what Asclepius has just asked--what Venus has just volunteered her for. But really, if it's in an official capacity, it can't be that bad. Right?
"That's true, she was Sailor V before any of us discovered our own powers," Mercury agrees with a nod. "And she was fighting for justice and love alone, without the rest of us. You could do wo--" there's a sick crunching sound, and Sailor Mercury blanches as she stares at Venus. "What did you do that for?!" she asks her, worriedly.
"Venus, seriously," Mercury says with a faint chiding tone, "You shouldn't hurt yourself just to see what he can do! I'm pretty sure there are plenty of people in the world that legitimately need his help without you adding to the mess on purpose!"
Asclepius GRahhhhhahahahahahahh!
Grhahahahaahaha!
That's the voice screaming in Asclepius's head when Venus just goes off and /dislocates her elbow/. He begins to grow pale again annnnnnnnnnnnnnd
Dirt. He falls over.
His he out? Yes. For a moment because he pushes himself up and he just blurts it out. "Are you crazy!?"
This person has never met Sailor Venus before.
He picks up his staff and it glows purple and he taps it against Minako's shoulder. A little burst of purple energy--- a little glow, and everything is mostly well. If it hurt a little bit, it still hurts, but nowhere near where it did before. Venus's arm is fine otherwise- the magic works as adevertised.
"/DON'T/ do that again please." he almost /begs/ and /pleads/. He manages to regain color in his faced before Mercury says she is Sailor V.
"What."
"Sailor V isn't real." he insists.
He pauses and blinks.
"Oh lord it's true isn't it." he says as she takes a deep sigh. He sighs at Mercury. "Are all your friends this weird Mercury." he asks with a light, playful tone.
Mercury gives that question all due consideration before answering, very honestly, "No, most of them are weirder."
Asclepius looks like he might die inside suddenly as he looks back to Venus quickly.
Minako Aino/Sailor Venus just lets out a gasp. "Sailor Vwweeeeee!? Not real? She's realer than pancakes and kittens!" she exclaims, never more serious than right now. "And our friends aren't weird and neither am I. Sometimes, a girls' gotta laser some people, sometimes a girls' gotta dislocate a shoulder. Usually, it's not her own," she offers, but she seems more trusting now.
"Anyways, I got what I need for now. But I'll be watching you. From nearby, from afar, and only sometimes in a creepy binoculars sorta' way," she says reassuringly.
"And... hrrrm, maybe we should give Sailor Mercury a few days off and get Sailor V to watch you the first day or two, just so you'll learn to believe?" she asks, mostly phrased towards Mercury, although it might not be a serious plan. It probably isn't.
"But yeah, I'm good for now, but I'll be watchin', researchin', and checkin' up on you! But I have lots of faith!"
Mercury smiles at Venus's response, then shakes her head. "No, I can handle it," she promises quietly. "I just need Asclepius to promise that he'll give me plenty of time to get my homework done. I was up an hour late last night getting caught up after all the grief he caused me last week." She doesn't sound serious about it; more like gently teasing.
Asclepius sort of blinks. "No, I belive you." he says softly. He sighs and crosses his arms and closes his eyes. He looks over to Mercury and nods a bit. "Please don't...fall behind on my account. I'm not going anywhere.... I hope." he says with a soft smile.
He nods.
"I came here to deliver a first aid kit to the Animal Care Club, for letting me use one of thiers to help a hurt dog last week." he says.
He offers his hand back for his phone back. He kinda needs that.
Minako Aino/Sailor Venus quickly puts in another phone number, this one saying 'Sailor V-chan!!!!!!!!!' with as many exclamation points as the phone will take before erroring out.
"Alright," she says slowly. "I got it. Mercury needs plenty of time to catch up with her studies 'cuz of all the time spent with you, but you are willing to wait forever for her," she says, perfectly naturally - or as naturally as she can sound avoiding trying to pronounce 'Asclepius' and only use pronouns.
"Alright. Alright. Get back to your... ahhhh, I wanna see animals! I'll have to visit your club," she decides, before getting ready to bound away.
"We'll meet again! Let me know if you need anything. I'll probably send Mercury! She said it best - I fight for Love and Justice. Not necessarily in that order!"
"Those first aid kits aren't cheap," says Mercury thoughtfully. "It's very nice of you to provide a replacement. I'm sure the club will be grateful." She leans back against the air conditioner, then glances to Venus and smiles. "I'm sure if you come by when the club is in session they'd be happy to show you the pets they have on campus, V."
Asclepius blinks and waves. "Be well, Sailor Venus. Sure! I'll bring you by Verone's Club sometimes- or you can ask Ikiko Hisakata here to see some. Tell her Daisuke sent you." he says softly. He waves and looks at his phone and retitles it to----nothing because Sailor Venus's many excalamation points caused the title to err. out and he can't change it. Great. Guess it's stuck that way for now.
He looks over to Mercury cautiously and waits until Venus is out of sight....
(and only when she's out of sight) he grows paler again and just cups his face and takes a deep breath. "Well. At least I healed that." he says outloudly. He turns to Mercury and takes a deep breath color returning again.
"I'm going to take a little guess...." he murmurs softly. "Your friends have been giving you guff about me, right?" he asks softly. "I mean. Not about.. the whole. Identity thing." he says gently. He's hoping he doesn't need to spell it out- he knows this question is already embarassing.
Minako Aino /Sailor Venus makes her escape in what might be slightly terrifying for anybody who worried over fake-dislocated shoulders - jumping over protective barriers of roofs towards what is (probably) something else before impacting the ground.
"See you later. I'll be sure to come and visit Daishou Academy again!"
"Seishou," Ami grumbles beneath her breath, even as she banishes the Mercury disguise to become herself once more.
She looks to Asclepius, then shrugs just a little. "Mostly, they just wanted to know who you were," she says softly. "And wondered why I was so distracted by you. It wasn't anything mean. My friends care a lot about me." She just can't bring herself to explain exactly what happened. "They'd all like to meet you, eventually. If you're willing.
"... did you already give the first aid kit to the club?" Ami asks, changing the subject almost deliberately.
Asclepius lets the robe fade away. He still carries the staff though. That means he's still /technically/ in henshin. He turns to Mercury and closes his eyes. "Good. Please... don't get distracted by me. You can text me or call me or come by and visit whenever you want. I admit----I'm happy when you're around." he smiles. "--but at the expense of things that are important that means nothing." he says.
"I did." he says. "I texted you when I was taking a break. I wanted to come by and visit if I was in the right school. I'm glad that I was able to meet Venus. I'm going to hope this eases some more worry from your friends...." he says.
"I...didn't know it was that bad... she hurt herself.... /as a test/..." he says through strained teeth.
Ami considers that thought a little, eyes narrowing faintly as she thinks back on what actually happened. "Actually, I don't think she did," she says quietly. "Venus is a lot smarter than she comes across, sometimes; clever and tricky. I was serious when I said Sailor V was fighting alone, without us, for a while. She wouldn't deliberately weaken herself in front of you unless she was certain she could recover from it.
"... I think it was a trick," Ami says with an almost apologetic voice. "She just wanted to see what you'd do. If it helps, I think you reacted the way she wanted you to: you healed her, and scolded her for hurting herself. You encouraged her to take better care of herself, and were even polite about it. Please don't be angry with her; she's just looking out for everyone. And for me."
Asclepius ughs. "Felt real to me..." he says softly "I just hope my magic doesn't affect actually healthy/non hurt people strangely because... well. That could be seen as something else." he says with a sigh. "I really don't need that." he says.
In reality, nope! Minako/Sailor Venus should be just fine regardless of anything!
"S-sorry I fainted just...." he rubs a hand over his face. "Some things I guess I'm not ready for." he says. He takes a deep breath.
"I'll write the dreams I have down now. I guess I should had been doing that. heh. I just didn't wanna leave things lying around...."
"Mmm," Ami agrees quietly, nodding her head. "But if you write them, and give them to me, I will give them to Sailor Venus for you when I see her. Or ... I guess it would be quicker to just call her, and then you could see her again."
Because who wouldn't want to see Sailor Venus again.
"I need to get some homework done," Ami notes quietly. "But we could stop by a bookstore, first, and buy you a journal to write in. And then maybe you can write down your dreams while I study."
Asclepius doesn't want to see Sailor Venus for like at least twelve hours so he doesn't turn pale again. He's pretty sure the only reason he didn't faint and stay fainted was because of this magical boy bullcrap he's in right now. Oh. Right. He holds the staff out and it turns back into a ring. There. Back to being normal. At least what passes for normal for him now.
"Let's do that then." he smiles.