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Occlumency - Chapter 1 (Closed)

Who: Samantha

samantha_grey, Yukari Takeba

takebow and possibly one other
What: Defense against Body Control practice
When: Day 126
Where: The pharmacy of the Yakuzen Clinic during an off period
Rating: PG-13 tops, probably just PG.

Samantha, a few hours before she would end up running into a certain monkey, was sitting bored and nervous in the office. Most of the cataloging was done for the day, and she'd set her schedule so that she could offer Yukari the appointment they'd agreed on. She'd sent a few texts around, and hopefully one of the others could stop by, but the place was public enough that she wasn't 'too' worried either way. If something went wrong, others could step in.

She sighed and reached up to rub her eyes. "Long damned day," she muttered.

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She was only moderately experienced, having had increasing occasions to practice lately, but not a lot. She focused down on the legs, and Yukari could feel more control in her hands again. Homing inward to focus her will on those limbs, Samantha decided to see if the problem was how much she was trying to control at once.

Just like that, Yukari felt her arms break almost free. She bent one arm, then the other, almost curious to see how they felt without that odd invisible constricting grip.

But then she felt her legs moving again, irresistibly this time--or seemingly so. It was as if she almost didn't feel them moving this time, like they weren't hers. Eyes widening, she pushed down on her left leg with her arms, seeing if that would help any.

The help of her hands created a physical resistance, not unlike pushing against someone else's body, but a curious reality of the use of powers like Body Control was that it was not limited by the usual part of the human mind that held back from pushing too hard. Any reluctance that she had in pushing against her own body would make it that much harder to resist the motion of her legs.

Admittedly, it was still difficult to maintain control. From moment to moment, she could feel Yukari's will interfering. It was also getting harder to keep up as time went on. She wasn't strained yet, but regardless Yukari took effort to keep hold of.

Yukari indeed found that her legs just wouldn't stop. And she was probably more distracted from fighting against her legs in two ways than she would be by one. Closing her eyes and even grunting a little, she stopped struggling with her arms, which were in any case under her control now, and started just focusing on trying to keep her dancing legs still, as still as she could.

The longer that the dance continued, the more that Yukari could feel her legs jerking and twitching. Inch by inch she was making headway. Finally, however, she raised a hand and Yukari could abruptly feel her body completely back under her own control. Samantha was panting and leaning against the counter heavily.

"God... keeping that up is tiring," she whispered.

Yukari stumbled backward as soon as her legs were back in her own control--she'd been pushing against it so hard that when the pressure suddenly gave way, she could only swing around awkwardly. She probably looked stupid in front of this Yifei girl, too, but whatever. Her legs felt leaden, and yet also like they were full of pins and needles-- it was all bizarre, and she, too, was sweating.

"Ugh... You're totally right about that, Samantha," she groaned. "Warn me next you stop?" She laughed a little, wiping her forehead. "Not that I need a next time just yet."

"Will do," she said, taking a rag out and wiping her forehead with it. She was calming down a little bit from before, though she was definitely very tired. She closed her eyes and relaxed slowly. "I'm not sure I could do it again for a little bit as is, so you're safe there."

Yukari took a deep breath herself, sitting down in the nearest convenient location. "Was it as weird for you as it was for me?" she asked, the hint of a vague smile on her face.

"I... feel oily inside when I use it. Every time I use it, even when I have people watching me, it's like there's a part of me that really likes it," she said, shuddering. "It gets worse if there's complete control. Feeling like I have a puppet on strings is really strange. I can almost see through your eyes."

Yukari's expression clouded over at that. "I'm sorry," she said, a little meaninglessly. "I guess it's what you have, though. I mean... Charm is a pretty awkward power in itself to have, too. I guess it's prolly a little bit of the same, but at least I don't have to do the -- controlling business myself, you know?"

She nodded. "Charm would be just as bad for me, worse in a way," she said, shrugging. "Influence is more a succubus' sort of thing than puppetry. But it's still bad either way. You have to be careful how you use that sort of thing for obvious reasons."

"Yeah, Minato-kun said that too..." she mused half to herself. "Social relationships are really important to him." She laughed. "I'm surprised he's not in Freya, at that..."

Well, shouldn't a succubus be, too really...? "Body control is a Hel House power, right?"

Only half, only half, and she didn't like the 'sociable' side of herself. "It is. I got put into Hel's little house of horrors," she said, shrugging. "Minato... I think he and I have met. he's kind of an odd one, if it's the guy I'm thinking of, but not too bad. Just really curious."

Yukari laughed a little. "I guess that sounds kinda like him." She paused; her relationship was really more of a personal thing than something that anyone else needed (or wanted) to hear about, so she left it at that.

"House of horrors... Is it that bad?"

"Hel is associated with death and the dead, with macabre, somber, depressing themes. She's antisocial, and you won't find her doing any posts on the networks. So all of the goths, social misfits, monsters, and those closely tied to death, dying and horror show up there," she said, shrugging and looking away. "The sorts of people you get over there aren't usually the cuddly types."

"Wow, rude..." She had been sitting back and keeping quiet, but quite attentive to the whole conversation (more that she has selective hearing; droning out all the things she didn't find interesting or relevant). Nevertheless, she felt that she had to at least REPRESENT for the saner parts of Hel. Literally none of those things described her at all--she was close to being on the tip top of the pecking order.

In reality, she, too, wondered why she was sorted into Hel house. Was it because her views on many mundane and human things were skewed so drastically after the transfiguring to the upper plane? She was capable of keeping both sides of her being at bay. What death she saw and experienced was no different from anyone else's and in that line of thinking, she felt she was no different from any of the other residents in other houses. But she was sorted here... It really got her to fall into a abyss where she asked herself what was truly depressing?

From her many years of being alive, every single triggering and traumatizing action happened around the world. No one was spared and in the end she felt no pity or sympathy for any soul.

Hmm. She mused to herself as all of things hit her, switching gears between how she feels a person and a deity, eyelids lowering themselves a bit as she gave both of the a half-lidded glance.

"I would say we're more cynical," scratching the side of her head a bit, that was the only thing she could exactly pinpoint as a similarity between many weirdos in Hel.

Then silence followed after.

"But I love cuddles!!"

Just so everyone knows.

"Yeah, forgot the cynicism," she admitted, laughing a bit. "There's always weird ones like this girl who're basically normal around the house. I've got no clue how she ended up there." She jabbed a thumb at Yifei with a shrug.

"Conan's pretty normal too, really," she added. "But there's a lot of strange types, a whole stack of trolls and other trouble makers. It's a weird house. I've been kind of looking forward to living somewhere."

Yukari shrugged. "Compared to a lot of the girls in Freya"--and they almost all were girls--"anyone would seem cynical." She stared over at Yifei for a moment. She was a weirdo all right, in Yukari's humble opinion, though not in the same way that Sam was, or that the "typical" Hel denizen was, either.

"Maybe Yifei over there has a dark secret ya just don't know about," she said, only half-joking, really. "Poison cuddles or something."

For that matter, Conan really didn't make sense there, as she thought about it. Oh well.

"Decided where you're gonna go?"

Poisonous cuddles...? That sounded more like Miriam to her, pulling people into her poisonous bosom. Even the though of it sent chills down her spine for a quick second. Either way, she was sure that she could do a lot better than that if she needed to get rid of someone. Either way, she gave an outward shrug towards that bit and leaned back on her chair since the question wasn't addressed to her.

There was really nothing to hide and she merely stretched her arms up with a small yawn. Continue on!!

"Loki District," she said, nodding. "Best and cheapest housing around. I can afford a two room place without too much effort, so I can just lock it up and make sure to keep everything under wraps."

She glanced over at Yifei and smirked. "she's right though. I'll bet you've got your share of secrets. Everyone does."

"Loki, huh? Downside is that you gotta deal with him being in the district all the time, though, right?"

Yukari shot a slightly questioning glance at Yifei herself, but didn't add to Samantha's comment.

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