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"A few months ago, I found myself in a place called Sapporo. Decent jingisukan. Good snowfall that year, or so the locals told me. Everyone was talking about something called the Battle Rondo. Well, I'm not really one for contact sports or anything like that, but I thought it'd be rude not to immerse myself in the local culture, so I busied myself with finding things out.

Little robots, as I happened to find out. Marvellous things. Little sentient robots called Shinki. Supposedly they're a product until they're activated, at which point they're recognized as people. Never heard anything like it before. Found out a lot of this from one of them, in fact. Name was Mii-chan, called herself 'a Mizuki'. We sat around, I ate some yakitori, she drank this special... shink jelly stuff, you know how people are when it comes to explaining local culture they're proud of.

I really should go back and pay for that food, come to think of it, because we ended up having to dine and dash. All of a sudden all of these poor little things were running around with icicles and clubs, little weapons made of ice, going rather wild and fighting one another. Except it was sort of like the weapons were using them, if you get my meaning. Very finely crafted ice weapons... strange thing.

Mii-chan was a lot more shaken up by it than I expected. I found out it was very poor luck of her to live in Sapporo- hated ice, one year, long back, she was working delivering some of those jelly drinks and the truck got stuck in snow. Now, she was in the back of the vehicle, and when those things start freezing, all swelling up and bursting out of their packaging... yes, that's quite... quite unpleasant. Traumatised her, I think. Winters in Sapporo are not a kind time for her.

Anyway, yes, bit of a dine and dash... and dash, and dash. There were these ice things everywhere. Little ice creatures, same size, same shape as Shinki, just, you know, ice. Chased us all the way to Ishikari Bay. She watched my back the whole way, I kept her calm, we talked our way through this terrible weather that was happening. Winter storm blowing in, I thought, and then I went, no, winter storms don't usually have faces in them.

That's when I realized it. You know how sometimes, if you go walking around in, say, some nasty frozen slush or something like that, and it stains your socks, and then you dry them out and the wet's gone but the dirt's still there? Now, if you've been dealing with wind elementals recently, and one of them may have just happened to explode all over you, you might see where I'm going with this.

A Wadjet Squall, that's what it was. You go into a cold place with wet socks, if you're not careful your socks'll freeze up. You go into a cold place with the essence of something that loves cold on you... well, it might just 'freeze up' again. So we had ourselves a problem.

Now, this particular fellow, very bored fellow. Thought he'd decided to go 'well, seen it all, nothing else left' and explode on me... no, seems I'd been played for a fool. Now he was here, and, you know, he's like a child playing with toys. You see these little walking, talking action figures running around, fighting, and you go to yourself 'I'd like to play with those toys too.' Except as I'd found out, they're not toys, really, are they? As soon as they start walking and talking, they're people.

Problem is, you try and explain that to a storm. I had to, of course, I had to get on a hang-glider and go right into the bay. Not a good place for Shinki, though. Mii had to stay behind. That's when I realised how much of an impression I had on her... she was clinging to my sleeve. Said to me, 'don't go where I can't follow'. But you can't really expect someone to go with you into a situation like that... nothing for it, honestly.

So in I go, eye of the storm. Right into the brains of this Wadjet Squall, so to speak. I say to him, you know, these are people, you have to understand this. That's when I found out he wasn't naive- he just didn't care. He wanted a new experience, so he snuck along unannounced as I went walking away, from one place to another, and he decided he'd come along and do what I did, immerse himself in the local culture. Except he didn't give a care about the local culture, really. Rather unfortunate situation, I'd bitten off more than I could chew again.

That's when Mii showed up anyway. Down on a boat- I wonder to this day, how did she drive it? Small thing. But there she was, and she had rigged up this catapult. She goes and launches all of these jelly cans up, up into the storm, they get picked up, and they... sure enough, they swell up and turn to ice and they burst. And now this elemental's got lots of big objects spinning around, disrupting his wind flow, messing up his currents. It all goes a bit pear-shaped and before you know it there's ice smashing up and his nucleus is disrupted, and he dissipates into... just a big snowstorm, really. And I'm lying face up in the boat.

We go back. Mii's on my shoulder, says she wants to stay with me, wants to be registered. But I just can't do it, you know? I don't... I can't do it. This isn't my place, I say. But you're good, Mii. You've overcome your fear, you could do good things in this city again. You know how to pilot a boat now, which is pretty surprising. There's this stevedore there, seems she knew him. Old friend named Kenpachi. Fellow who was driving the truck, as it turns out. Says they could work together again, he'd take better care of her this time.

Mii looks at me, and again, she says 'will you go where I can't follow?'. I say to her, you've got a bond here with an old friend who's willing to make amends. Don't drop the old for some new flash, Mii. You'll do alright. Where I go, there's snow, and there's wind, and there's sand, and there's vines and swamps and long, long roads, out in the dark, with nobody else for miles around. You don't want to follow where I go.

And so, I leave. She'll do well, will Mii. I hope.

Maybe some day I'll figure out why I said no to her."

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		+	"So I had something rather interesting lined up for the days after christmas.
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		+	Not that the holiday itself is anything more than a day of the week to me, you understand, but I know that the season's a big thing for almost everyone else. Mostly I just like the fact that it's one or two days of the week where you can walk around and everything in the big cities are practically abandoned. But I digress.
		+
		+	I was on my way to this fashion show audition... fascinating thing really, this rather chatty fashionista by the name of Daidouji sent out an open offer. Show up, model for her, maybe keep the clothes she chose for you. I could hardly say no to a new set of clothes, could I? Not often you get that kind of offer.
		+
		+	Except when I'm on my way there, I see people throwing out their holiday junk. It's mostly stuff like, oh, you know, wrapping paper, hundreds of twisty ties, the instruction manual you really should keep, but some people are throwing out some toys who don't work. I go past this one apartment and I see someone with a bag of stuff and this spinning top at the top of the pile.
		+
		+	Except that's not a spinning top, that's a Zasseone.
		+
		+	I recognized it immediately- they're something I've come across before. Imagine a ... imagine the most stereotypical gemstone. Round cut, pointy bottom, you know what I mean. Then cross it with a flower, make it look like it's made of fine china... that's a Zasseone. Put a little twisty wire on the top and it looks like a spinning top.
		+
		+	The question that hits me immediately is, why did someone get a Zasseone as a christmas present?
		+
		+	As soon as the person's dumpstered it and walked away, I go up to them and ask them about it. They say the top broke off, it made quite an unpleasant noise... wouldn't stop making it for ten minutes, which was the weird part. Cracked the windows in their apartment. They're not too willing to deal with me because I'm some guy off the street, but that's what I've come to expect. I give them the number of a reasonable new double glazing salesman and a note that it's a favour from Agnew, they'll get an affordable replacement. I say, 'tis the season for generosity and goodwill, they take it at face value when I show them my Piffle corp namebadge.
		+
		+	So anyway, the Zasseone. Naturally it's floating away by now, and it twirls off and around a corner by the time I've finished talking.
		+
		+	Now, I could ignore it, I could go and get myself a new pair of pants, but that's when I see another of them lying in the trash a few yards down the road. I'd ran a few yards down the road after the first because as you can guess, by now I'd already started to make my decision. This chap stops me from touching it- it's pretty bashed in. He said he got it for a present, but it started making this unpleasant, loud noise and he bashed it to stop it working, and then it started leaking this funny silvery stuff. So I say, OK, and go on my way.
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		+	But as they say, to lose one alien might be regarded as misfortune, but to lose 2? That's carelessness. And if I have missed at least two Zasseone, making strange noises and peeing on peoples' carpets...
		+
		+	So I walk down the street, I find another person... they tossed one out, I ask them to describe the sound it made... another person, a different sound... another person, same sound, different color leaking... and before I know it I'm a mile away from the place I was supposed to be and there's got to be at least four Zasseone making a callout and hoping something answers... so somewhere in this town, there's going to be something that responds...
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		+	And I've got to find that family before it perks its head up...
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		+	Maybe next time, Daidouji.

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-Not that the holiday itself is anything more than a day of the week to me, you understand, but I know that the season's a big thing for almost everyone else. Mostly I just like the fact that it's one or two days of the week where you can walk around and everything in the big cities are practically abandoned. But I digress.
-−
-I was on my way to this fashion show audition... fascinating thing really, this rather chatty fashionista by the name of Daidouji sent out an open offer. Show up, model for her, maybe keep the clothes she chose for you. I could hardly say no to a new set of clothes, could I? Not often you get that kind of offer.
-−
-Except when I'm on my way there, I see people throwing out their holiday junk. It's mostly stuff like, oh, you know, wrapping paper, hundreds of twisty ties, the instruction manual you really should keep, but some people are throwing out some toys who don't work. I go past this one apartment and I see someone with a bag of stuff and this spinning top at the top of the pile.
-−
-Except that's not a spinning top, that's a Zasseone.
-−
-I recognized it immediately- they're something I've come across before. Imagine a ... imagine the most stereotypical gemstone. Round cut, pointy bottom, you know what I mean. Then cross it with a flower, make it look like it's made of fine china... that's a Zasseone. Put a little twisty wire on the top and it looks like a spinning top.
-−
-The question that hits me immediately is, why did someone get a Zasseone as a christmas present?
-−
-As soon as the person's dumpstered it and walked away, I go up to them and ask them about it. They say the top broke off, it made quite an unpleasant noise... wouldn't stop making it for ten minutes, which was the weird part. Cracked the windows in their apartment. They're not too willing to deal with me because I'm some guy off the street, but that's what I've come to expect. I give them the number of a reasonable new double glazing salesman and a note that it's a favour from Agnew, they'll get an affordable replacement. I say, 'tis the season for generosity and goodwill, they take it at face value when I show them my Piffle corp namebadge.
-−
-So anyway, the Zasseone. Naturally it's floating away by now, and it twirls off and around a corner by the time I've finished talking.
-−
-Now, I could ignore it, I could go and get myself a new pair of pants, but that's when I see another of them lying in the trash a few yards down the road. I'd ran a few yards down the road after the first because as you can guess, by now I'd already started to make my decision. This chap stops me from touching it- it's pretty bashed in. He said he got it for a present, but it started making this unpleasant, loud noise and he bashed it to stop it working, and then it started leaking this funny silvery stuff. So I say, OK, and go on my way.
-−
-But as they say, to lose one alien might be regarded as misfortune, but to lose 2? That's carelessness. And if I have missed at least two Zasseone, making strange noises and peeing on peoples' carpets...
-−
-So I walk down the street, I find another person... they tossed one out, I ask them to describe the sound it made... another person, a different sound... another person, same sound, different color leaking... and before I know it I'm a mile away from the place I was supposed to be and there's got to be at least four Zasseone making a callout and hoping something answers... so somewhere in this town, there's going to be something that responds...
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-And I've got to find that family before it perks its head up...
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-Maybe next time, Daidouji.

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-        "A few months ago, I found myself in a place called Sapporo. Decent jingisukan. Good snowfall that year, or so the locals told me. Everyone was talking about something called the Battle Rondo. Well, I'm not really one for contact sports or anything like that, but I thought it'd be rude not to immerse myself in the local culture, so I busied myself with finding things out.
+"A few months ago, I found myself in a place called Sapporo. Decent jingisukan. Good snowfall that year, or so the locals told me. Everyone was talking about something called the Battle Rondo. Well, I'm not really one for contact sports or anything like that, but I thought it'd be rude not to immerse myself in the local culture, so I busied myself with finding things out.
-        Little robots, as I happened to find out. Marvellous things. Little sentient robots called Shinki. Supposedly they're a product until they're activated, at which point they're recognized as people. Never heard anything like it before. Found out a lot of this from one of them, in fact. Name was Mii-chan, called herself 'a Mizuki'. We sat around, I ate some yakitori, she drank this special... shink jelly stuff, you know how people are when it comes to explaining local culture they're proud of.
+Little robots, as I happened to find out. Marvellous things. Little sentient robots called Shinki. Supposedly they're a product until they're activated, at which point they're recognized as people. Never heard anything like it before. Found out a lot of this from one of them, in fact. Name was Mii-chan, called herself 'a Mizuki'. We sat around, I ate some yakitori, she drank this special... shink jelly stuff, you know how people are when it comes to explaining local culture they're proud of.
-        I really should go back and pay for that food, come to think of it, because we ended up having to dine and dash. All of a sudden all of these poor little things were running around with icicles and clubs, little weapons made of ice, going rather wild and fighting one another. Except it was sort of like the weapons were using them, if you get my meaning. Very finely crafted ice weapons... strange thing.
+I really should go back and pay for that food, come to think of it, because we ended up having to dine and dash. All of a sudden all of these poor little things were running around with icicles and clubs, little weapons made of ice, going rather wild and fighting one another. Except it was sort of like the weapons were using them, if you get my meaning. Very finely crafted ice weapons... strange thing.
-        Mii-chan was a lot more shaken up by it than I expected. I found out it was very poor luck of her to live in Sapporo- hated ice, one year, long back, she was working delivering some of those jelly drinks and the truck got stuck in snow. Now, she was in the back of the vehicle, and when those things start freezing, all swelling up and bursting out of their packaging... yes, that's quite... quite unpleasant. Traumatised her, I think. Winters in Sapporo are not a kind time for her.
+Mii-chan was a lot more shaken up by it than I expected. I found out it was very poor luck of her to live in Sapporo- hated ice, one year, long back, she was working delivering some of those jelly drinks and the truck got stuck in snow. Now, she was in the back of the vehicle, and when those things start freezing, all swelling up and bursting out of their packaging... yes, that's quite... quite unpleasant. Traumatised her, I think. Winters in Sapporo are not a kind time for her.
-        Anyway, yes, bit of a dine and dash... and dash, and dash. There were these ice things everywhere. Little ice creatures, same size, same shape as Shinki, just, you know, ice. Chased us all the way to Ishikari Bay. She watched my back the whole way, I kept her calm, we talked our way through this terrible weather that was happening. Winter storm blowing in, I thought, and then I went, no, winter storms don't usually have faces in them.
+Anyway, yes, bit of a dine and dash... and dash, and dash. There were these ice things everywhere. Little ice creatures, same size, same shape as Shinki, just, you know, ice. Chased us all the way to Ishikari Bay. She watched my back the whole way, I kept her calm, we talked our way through this terrible weather that was happening. Winter storm blowing in, I thought, and then I went, no, winter storms don't usually have faces in them.
-        That's when I realized it. You know how sometimes, if you go walking around in, say, some nasty frozen slush or something like that, and it stains your socks, and then you dry them out and the wet's gone but the dirt's still there? Now, if you've been dealing with wind elementals recently, and one of them may have just happened to explode all over you, you might see where I'm going with this.
+That's when I realized it. You know how sometimes, if you go walking around in, say, some nasty frozen slush or something like that, and it stains your socks, and then you dry them out and the wet's gone but the dirt's still there? Now, if you've been dealing with wind elementals recently, and one of them may have just happened to explode all over you, you might see where I'm going with this.
-        A Wadjet Squall, that's what it was. You go into a cold place with wet socks, if you're not careful your socks'll freeze up. You go into a cold place with the essence of something that loves cold on you... well, it might just 'freeze up' again. So we had ourselves a problem.
+A Wadjet Squall, that's what it was. You go into a cold place with wet socks, if you're not careful your socks'll freeze up. You go into a cold place with the essence of something that loves cold on you... well, it might just 'freeze up' again. So we had ourselves a problem.
-        Now, this particular fellow, very bored fellow. Thought he'd decided to go 'well, seen it all, nothing else left' and explode on me... no, seems I'd been played for a fool. Now he was here, and, you know, he's like a child playing with toys. You see these little walking, talking action figures running around, fighting, and you go to yourself 'I'd like to play with those toys too.' Except as I'd found out, they're not toys, really, are they? As soon as they start walking and talking, they're people.
+Now, this particular fellow, very bored fellow. Thought he'd decided to go 'well, seen it all, nothing else left' and explode on me... no, seems I'd been played for a fool. Now he was here, and, you know, he's like a child playing with toys. You see these little walking, talking action figures running around, fighting, and you go to yourself 'I'd like to play with those toys too.' Except as I'd found out, they're not toys, really, are they? As soon as they start walking and talking, they're people.
-        Problem is, you try and explain that to a storm. I had to, of course, I had to get on a hang-glider and go right into the bay. Not a good place for Shinki, though. Mii had to stay behind. That's when I realised how much of an impression I had on her... she was clinging to my sleeve. Said to me, 'don't go where I can't follow'. But you can't really expect someone to go with you into a situation like that... nothing for it, honestly.
+Problem is, you try and explain that to a storm. I had to, of course, I had to get on a hang-glider and go right into the bay. Not a good place for Shinki, though. Mii had to stay behind. That's when I realised how much of an impression I had on her... she was clinging to my sleeve. Said to me, 'don't go where I can't follow'. But you can't really expect someone to go with you into a situation like that... nothing for it, honestly.
-        So in I go, eye of the storm. Right into the brains of this Wadjet Squall, so to speak. I say to him, you know, these are people, you have to understand this. That's when I found out he wasn't naive- he just didn't care. He wanted a new experience, so he snuck along unannounced as I went walking away, from one place to another, and he decided he'd come along and do what I did, immerse himself in the local culture. Except he didn't give a care about the local culture, really. Rather unfortunate situation, I'd bitten off more than I could chew again.
+So in I go, eye of the storm. Right into the brains of this Wadjet Squall, so to speak. I say to him, you know, these are people, you have to understand this. That's when I found out he wasn't naive- he just didn't care. He wanted a new experience, so he snuck along unannounced as I went walking away, from one place to another, and he decided he'd come along and do what I did, immerse himself in the local culture. Except he didn't give a care about the local culture, really. Rather unfortunate situation, I'd bitten off more than I could chew again.
-        That's when Mii showed up anyway. Down on a boat- I wonder to this day, how did she drive it? Small thing. But there she was, and she had rigged up this catapult. She goes and launches all of these jelly cans up, up into the storm, they get picked up, and they... sure enough, they swell up and turn to ice and they burst. And now this elemental's got lots of big objects spinning around, disrupting his wind flow, messing up his currents. It all goes a bit pear-shaped and before you know it there's ice smashing up and his nucleus is disrupted, and he dissipates into... just a big snowstorm, really. And I'm lying face up in the boat.
+That's when Mii showed up anyway. Down on a boat- I wonder to this day, how did she drive it? Small thing. But there she was, and she had rigged up this catapult. She goes and launches all of these jelly cans up, up into the storm, they get picked up, and they... sure enough, they swell up and turn to ice and they burst. And now this elemental's got lots of big objects spinning around, disrupting his wind flow, messing up his currents. It all goes a bit pear-shaped and before you know it there's ice smashing up and his nucleus is disrupted, and he dissipates into... just a big snowstorm, really. And I'm lying face up in the boat.
-        We go back. Mii's on my shoulder, says she wants to stay with me, wants to be registered. But I just can't do it, you know? I don't... I can't do it. This isn't my place, I say. But you're good, Mii. You've overcome your fear, you could do good things in this city again. You know how to pilot a boat now, which is pretty surprising. There's this stevedore there, seems she knew him. Old friend named Kenpachi. Fellow who was driving the truck, as it turns out. Says they could work together again, he'd take better care of her this time.
+We go back. Mii's on my shoulder, says she wants to stay with me, wants to be registered. But I just can't do it, you know? I don't... I can't do it. This isn't my place, I say. But you're good, Mii. You've overcome your fear, you could do good things in this city again. You know how to pilot a boat now, which is pretty surprising. There's this stevedore there, seems she knew him. Old friend named Kenpachi. Fellow who was driving the truck, as it turns out. Says they could work together again, he'd take better care of her this time.
-        Mii looks at me, and again, she says 'will you go where I can't follow?'. I say to her, you've got a bond here with an old friend who's willing to make amends. Don't drop the old for some new flash, Mii. You'll do alright. Where I go, there's snow, and there's wind, and there's sand, and there's vines and swamps and long, long roads, out in the dark, with nobody else for miles around. You don't want to follow where I go.
+Mii looks at me, and again, she says 'will you go where I can't follow?'. I say to her, you've got a bond here with an old friend who's willing to make amends. Don't drop the old for some new flash, Mii. You'll do alright. Where I go, there's snow, and there's wind, and there's sand, and there's vines and swamps and long, long roads, out in the dark, with nobody else for miles around. You don't want to follow where I go.
-        And so, I leave. She'll do well, will Mii. I hope.
+And so, I leave. She'll do well, will Mii. I hope.
-        Maybe some day I'll figure out why I said no to her."
+Maybe some day I'll figure out why I said no to her."