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The cat just talked. And the tower is big. And it looks like it’s about to fall on its left any second now.
/人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼: <span class="mu-i">I see. You must have questions. Ask me anything that you want. I have nothing to hide from you, Helen.</span>
<span class="mu-s">???</span>: <span class="mu-i">I’d bet this little girl is simply scared, Holy Kyubey.</span>
From the shadow of the old lemon tree with a hundred carvings a big girl is made by the light as she steps out of the dark. Her short hair is yellow as the sun with black shades, she wears a simple white top-tank and long, blue jeans. And despite the weird eyes, Helen is totally sure that she's prettier than any woman she ever saw on TV, the prettiest woman in the world.
<span class="mu-s">???</span>: <span class="mu-i">Don’t worry. The Violet Tower seems bigger the further you are from it. It’s very far, in reality.</span>
Mouth still gaping, Helen barely even moves as the stranger walks up to her. That soothing voice calmed her down. That soothing voice seems sad.
<span class="mu-s">???</span>: <span class="mu-i">You just want someone to protect you, don't you?</span>
The little girl nods but only out of reflex- it isn't exactly true, after all. The bigger girl frowns, then kneels and grabs those tiny hands between hers.
<span class="mu-s">???</span>: <span class="mu-i">I am a hunter of Witches. Witches are ghosts that devour innocent people. But there aren't many like me anymore. With your help, we could be more.</span>
Helen walks up to the woman and wraps those tiny arms around her neck as the woman kneels. She even smells nice.
Helen: Bitches?
<span class="mu-s">???</span>: <span class="mu-i">Witches. That’s a bad word. Don’t say bad words with such a pretty little mouth.</span>
Yet she shakes ever so slightly, and Helen smiles too. Ghosts; she heard that one before. She said that one before, too.
She knows about the Universal Child Allowance Plan.
/人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼: <span class="mu-i">Helen Troyes, we need your help. If you make a contract with me you will help other individuals such as yourself defend their own blood progenitors.</span>
Helen: Helena.
The cat visibly recalculates.
/人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼: <span class="mu-i">Helena Troyes. Make a contract with me and become an Incubator. Repeat after me: “I wish to become an Incubator”.</span>
<span class="mu-s">???</span>: <span class="mu-i">And don’t worry little thing. I’ll always be by your side- as you make everyone’s wishes come true.</span>
Like the yolk of an egg in a pan, the morning sun rises over the Violet Tower, the cat, the big and the little girl. Mr. Water Sprinkler takes no breaks and makes the blades of glass shine, its tiny engine purring as it helps everything in the garden be happy.
Helen walks up to the cat, who lifts up one of its massive ears in a perfect, comical way.
Helen: So if I say that I'll have a family?
/人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼: Yes. I can make any wish come true, Helena. If you say "I wish to become an Incubator" then that wish will be granted.
Helen glances at the woman with the weird eyes- who just gives back a cute wink. They are trying to use her. That's ok; she does that too. It's how things work.
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