>"Oh wonderful. Although she's moving, it'll be pretty hard to have a conversation with her. And those bees on her head are definitely creepy. I wonder if she can't tell they're there?"
>If she's moving really slowly through time, we'd be moving insanely fast in her perspective. So say "Hi" except reeeally slow.
>"Yeah," says Jeff. "But that fact that she's moving at all is pretty significant." The ballet of shapes and images within his cloudy form slow for a moment. "And...did you say bees? Lemme get a look."
>He blinks in close to Rumia's face, then immediately blinks away to the far side of the alley, crying "GAH! OHGODOHGODOHGODOHGOD!"
>"Ooooooooooooooooooooooo..." continues Rumia.
>You try to say "Hi" slowly, but you don't think she hears it very well as she's also talking, and it is rather difficult to listen while talking.
>"ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssttttthhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" Rumia finishes, as she completes turning around to look in your general direction.
>Pause
>Examine quests
>Unpause
>You ask this like every five minutes. Maybe you should copy them down?
>Your current quests are:
>Destroy All Humidity
>Secret Collect!
>Making Amends
>Get a Map of Gensokyo
>Reunite the Prismrivers
>Dancing Lasers
>Out of Time, out of Mind.
>Now it is Personal
> Can we use our magic here?
> If so, Try to use a fire spell, But on a small scale, only enough to make some smoke
> Smoke the bees away.
>With a bit of effort, you are able to conjure a small wisp of smoky fire into your palm. You hold it near Rumia's face. The bees crawl crawl about more quickly and seem obviously agitated by the smoke, but they do not seem to conform to standard bee behavior and react to the smoke as you would expect.
>Rumia starts to blink and bring her hands to her face.
> "I wouldn't have gotten up today if I knew this was gonna happen..."
>Normally, you'd expect Jeff to say something pithy, but he still seems to be creeped out. Or at least the prevalence of bee imagery within him, and unpleasant-looking shapes, suggests otherwise.
>report bees to Jeff
>"I know! I know! Oh sweet Suwako, I know..." he cries.
>You can be a cruel person.
>_