Evening, June 15, 1999

[loveandwillpower]

Three are down, three are dead.

Haruhi. Rosa. Alice.

The Princess will be free of her chains soon, Hope from Pandora's box bright and innocent and so easy to be crushed by the unscrupulous. Enemies lie everywhere - the sisters, no matter which side they take, they're out of the way for now. If there are still enemies to take care of, if she's still alive at the end of the night, she'll see if she needs to drag anything out from under their skins.

Four to go. Tomosuke's message had been clear. A turncoat twice over, no fit familiar for a witch. Even a treacherous witch.

With Maria's betrayal, there's really no time to waste. Can't check on the prince, if he's gone then that's just wasted time, if he's not then that's still wasted time, if he's taken a turn for the worse and died then too bad for him, Maya's reign'll just have to kick off with a tragic star-crossed romance, it's his fault for getting in the way.

Time, time - wires strung across doorways and stairwells, ancient crossbows dredged up from the basement, sharp stakes and slippery steps in strategic places, all the traps her wild ingenuity can summon into being, and, of course, a certain upgrade for the power of Venus, purchased with the help of papa's credit card.

Mia will be back to free Maya tomorrow, so it has to be tonight.

A challenge must be issued to the worst of the demons remaining. With the power of love and beauty, she'll defend this household, and with that, she dials Nui. With Alice's cell phone, of course. She might not pick up for Minako, but she definitely will for Alice. Power of love. It's what she's got and she'll use every single tool at her disposal for the sake of her liege.

Comments

[flatview]

[ She didn't expect to be getting any more phone calls tonight. Everyone was here, right? --oh, except for Alice and Minako. She still wasn't sure what to make of those claims about Minako being the "bad guy" anyway...hadn't Hiroshi gone nuts before? How could she fully trust him?

But Minako's instincts are right, at least. Nui picks up the phone at once. ]

Alice-chan? Hey, hey, where are you? We're getting worried!

later, the Fey house

[itwasfeyt]

[It was easy work, getting to Maya's house. Nothing along the way to halt their progress until the all-to-familiar front door was within sight.

The real problem, of course, was hiding within. Minako, Maya's closest friend and confidante, now the person responsible for her false arrest, and the murder of Haruhi... It was hard to even imagine such a situation coming about - what could have spurned her on like this, she wondered. Minako had called Maya her "princess"... did that mean that... all of this was her-

She shook her head, dislodging that thought. Not right now. They had to take care of this.

She placed her hand on the doorknob. It's only fair that she went in first, it was her house.]

...So, we're really sure that she's in here?

[loveandwillpower]

[ While everyone else fusses over dead friends and so on, the house remains as it is.

Minako's exact location is a mystery. The channeling chamber, maybe? It looks occupied, the door open a crack and light shining through. ]

[loveandwillpower]

[ The basement? Hiroshi'd been locked up underground, after all. ]

[loveandwillpower]

[ Maya's room? Surely the Princess' room must be free of traps. ]