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Naoto's Heart

You find yourself falling through a black abyss, the air cold around you, although not bitingly so. Just as your eyes begin to adjust to the darkness on every side, you're dropped through a chute and tossed out into a brightly-lit area...

((#hardwired))

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[also taking a card, if offered, looking at it curiously]

As you both take the cards, a memory flashes through your mind. For Kitsunebi, it's this one. For Ventus, it's this one.

Oh, it's the friend Sleuth lost... She was having a really good time with her and you...

He nods. "It's a good memory for her, all things considered."

Mm, it is! We're trying to find a heart. Do you know where one might be?

[fond smile at the memory, but very contemplative of his, as Kitsunebi talks]

He glances at Bones. "You would know better than I... what do you think?"

"It's kinda complicated, more than I know, but... part of it's around here, I'm pretty sure. You could go looking for it."

We'll look really hard. Thank you, um...

[Glances at the one with the bowlcut.]

"Narukami."

Mm. Narukami. I'm Kitsunebi.

"Nice to meet you, Kitsunebi. Mind if I pet you?"

Oh, I love when people pet me.

Narukami pets you! And ear skritchies.

[ALL THE SCRITCHINGS FOR THE PUPPY! Plus tail wags.]

"Is there something you're looking for, Kitsunebi?"

I want to know so many pieces were missing from that fake person we saw before we went through the door. It's sad...

[Looking around~]

"I can't tell you exactly where they are, but you're not very far."

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Can I ask...are things different in her world? She couldn't do some stuff because she's a girl?

"Things are a lot different back in Inaba than they are where she is now. She feels a lot more bound there."

Bones cuts in. "It's total bullshit, man. I been telling her that for a while now, though."

I'm...glad this place is good for her, then...

[deep in thought]

Is that why...she isn't sure whether she's a boy or a girl? Because she didn't want to be what people back home thought girls are?

"Girls are supposed to be girly and demure and passive and shit, and Naoto's not any of that. Doesn't mean she's any less of a girl, but that's what people have been telling her for years. So after you hear that crap over and over, you start to believe it's true."

[...................wtf]

That's...so stupid. Thinking girls are supposed to be that, I mean. Gah.

"No kidding, man. But she's got a lotta pressure besides that, too. Her family, I mean."

Her family...?

Narukami interjects.

"She's from a long line of detectives. It's important to her to live up to that."

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