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Characters: Hibiki and you!
Date: Early February
Location: Around and about Aifaran
Situation: Hibiki discovers many things and is bad for teacups.
Warnings: ~~hibiki~~ Narcissism; poor fine motor skills.

[ Scene I - At a fancy art gallery. ]

[ A rare chance has come up, for those interested in the arts. It seems a renowned Igheeri sculptor has discovered a new muse, and has created a design for their intended masterwork. Today, that design shall be unveiled to the public, acted out by that very muse! Live art!

Excitement is high at the event. The Igheeri swoops down from a perch installed in the gallery for just such flourishes. After a brief, haughty speech about a Dreamfolk worthy of being immortalized in art, the cover over the modeling muse is is whisked away to reveal -

Well. This intended pose for the future statue is sure something. Something the model is now doing in real time.

Do try not to faint. ]

[ Scene II - In the Dreaming Bridge. ]

"User not found"?!

[ This is impossible! Yes, Hibiki had only made that Xa Xa account to stay better informed on everyone else's folly, but for it to have completely vanished....! And when she had actually wanted to inform her audience of her change in status, at that!

She's being rather loud in the hallways of the Dreaming Bridge. It's early in the morning. And she's placing a call. ]

Technical support? An outrage has occurred. Amend it immediately!

[ Scene III - On the street. ]

[ "I'm gonna prove I love bibirus more than you! By....by talking like this, bibi!" ]

HHHHHHHHH!

[ Hibiki had been about to take a sip out of this teacup when a couple of squabbling kedan kids pass by. One has made his head sprout bibiru wings. The other has taken this as a challenge.

And Hibiki's teacup is a victim, dropping from her fingers to shatter on this streetside table. She, herself, is frozen in shock. A single drop of blood leaks from a cut on her finger where a piece of the breaking cup had nicked it. Where it spills on the table, a tiny imp rises, stretches, yawns, and looks around. Since Hibiki doesn't seem to be moving, it sits on a piece of the broken teacup and waits.

Nothing to see here. ]

[ Scene IV - At a cafe. ]

What morbidly useful creatures.

[ Hibiki is sitting in a corner of this cafe, accepting the handkerchief one of her imps has just fetched from her pocket for her. She presses it against the finger she'd pricked and watches the second imp carefully stir her tea with a spoon that's bigger than it. ]

The generation method is slightly out of my idiom, but all things considered, the ultimate servants would of course be a part of me. These shall serve flawlessly--

[ Clatter. The imp tips the teacup over by stirring too hard. Now it's standing dumbly in a spilling puddle, looking down.

Hibiki's eyebrow twitches. ]

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My account is completely gone!

[ Having to report on it irritates her all over again. But so be it. She shall wait, nobly, for her issue to be addressed.

If she must. ]

[Well, there's an issue he hasn't had yet. (He's seen just about all the others in the last week, thank you, overzealous Obara engineers.) Hopefully she won't mind if he opens the Xa Xa application... "User not found" indeed. Brow furrowed, but his voice is still calm as he checks the software.]

Have you tried logging into your account from one of the stationary terminals?

Why would such an absurd workaround....

[ So no. She hasn't. But now you've put that idea into her head, so she's looking about and trying to remember whether she's seen one of said terminals in this building. ]

[Tenn manages only a narrowing of his eyes. You can consider his ‘absurd’ workaround or you can live without Xa Xa. Chose wisely.]

It's possible your account still exists and the device simply can't access it.

[Still holding her yimo ~~hostage~~, he turns to walk to the lobby. No, he is not going to wait to make sure he's being followed.]

Uselessly inconvenient.

[ But she's following him. If only to prove this won't work. ]

[And thus, peace is restored to the residential halls. However, now he's in the middle of tech support. So, with an air of confidence like he does this every day, Tenn strolls through the lobby to a free terminal, pulls out a chair, and motions her into it.]

This console is up to date. Try logging in.

[ Hibiki sidles up and punches in her information. She presses "Log In" with only a slight flourish.

"User Not Found", says the console.

A vein pops audibly in Hibiki's forehead. ]

Ghk.

[... Judging by that reaction, he's not going to ask if she did anything to get it shut down. Someone from the Xa Xa department can look into it. He offers her yimo back to her.]

If it's not a problem with your device, you'll have to contact the technicians behind Xa Xa directly.

So you were useless.

[ Just making that clear.

She'll accept her yimo back, though. ]

[An amused smirk replaces that focused professionalism.]

Of course. I am a beta tech. The technician you called may have been 'useless' as well, and you would've had a longer wait.

[And just to drive home how 'useless' he is:]

I'm reporting to Opara Core this afternoon. I'll pass on your issue to them. I can't assure your account will be restored immediately, but it will be on record even if your support call doesn’t go through.

I'll expect a progress report.

[ It's strange. She can almost sense something...else...about this person when he makes that expression, but her irritation and his status as staff drown it out.

It's probably nothing. ]

I'll have one for you this evening.

[And here's an encouraging, angelic smile to make the wait a little easier.]

Until then, please don't disturb the guests in the halls. Many of them don’t wake as early as us.

It's likely I'll go out, anyway.

[ Her room continues to be assigned to an additional individual, after all. This is also highly irregular and taking entirely too long to fix.

In fact, she may even have been told there is no fixing it. Preposterous.

Hibiki turns away. ] What an unpleasant cloud on the morning.

[Ah, but that cloud won't be his concern again until noon! There's still a note of amusement in his voice as he leaves to attend to his morning run.]

Then find something to clear that cloud. Bye bye.

Hmph.

[ Shikyoin Hibiki refuses to say "bye bye". She will let her shoulderblades do the talking, instead, as she too heads on her way.

That's where her jacket says BRILLIANT, after all. ]

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