Fifth Floor Common Room [Saturday Evening]

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Triela hadn't woken up any younger... but she couldn't remember what she was doing sitting on the floor of the common room. She actually didn't remember that this room was a common room. It seemed wholly unfamiliar to her.

She looked down at her clothes. At least those were familiar. Sort of.

Now she looked around, blinking wide-eyed as she tried to remember where she was. Or what she was doing there.

She must have sat down for a reason, right?

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[heromaniac]

Momoko was still in her fairy princess outfit and she'd found her wand again, but her pigtails were very much not doing so good. She'd had lots of fun today but she hadn't yet found Mister Bear!

And she was hungry again. Momoko wandered into the common room, perking a bit when she saw Triela. Triela would help! "Triela! Triela! Triela! I can't find Mister Bear anywheres an' I think he's losted. I've been looking aaaaaall day and I'm huuuuuungry."

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Well, that wasn't really helping Triela's confusion. "Oh?" she temporized, uncertain how to respond to an energetic little girl that she suspected she should remember, but couldn't.

[heromaniac]

To be fair, the last time she'd seen Momoko this small they'd probably been the same age.

Momoko tucked her wand into her sash again (completely forgetting that's how she'd lost it earlier in the day) and reached for Triela's hand. "Come on! Come on! Help me find him! Please? He's losted and prob'ly scared! Are there marshemamallows?"

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"We're looking for Mister Bear?" Triela frowned thoughtfully, letting Momoko take her hand. That sounded familiar... who did she know who had bears?

[heromaniac]

Momoko sighed and tugged as much as she could. "That's what I saaaaaid! He's been losted all daaaaaaaay. An' I missed all the good tvs cause he didn't wake me up on time and now I gots'ta find him cause he's scared!"

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"How do you know he's scared if you can't find him?" Triela asked. That was a totally reasonable question, right?

[heromaniac]

Totally reasonable! If you were older than almost-five.

"Cause he's losted! Everyone is if they don't know where they are!"

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Triela wasn't afraid, and she wasn't really sure where she was... But she didn't think that pointing that out to the little girl would be helpful.

"So we should go look for him? Is that what you're saying?"

[heromaniac]

Momoko nodded eagerly, shaking Triela's hand in time with each nod. "'Xactly! I looked in my room even under Spock's bed and he wasn't there and I called Dinah and she's in Santa's cruz but Mister Bear isn't there an' an' an'... I lookded EVERYWHERE! You gots'ta help!"

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"Well, let's see if we can find him, then, shall we?" Triela asked. She began walking. Not with any particular destination in mind, just... to get moving.

[heromaniac]

Moving was pretty much what Momoko had been doing all day. She was too easily distracted to have been actually looking for him every moment.

She had hold of Triela's hand, still, and Momoko leaned her head against it as they walked. "He's a big bear, but he's not scary. An' he has a pretty ribbon cause he's very nice an' a gennelman."

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"A bear with a ribbon, huh? Then he shouldn't be too hard to find." There couldn't be many of those around, could there?

Triela wandered down the hallway, letting her feet choose their way without conscious guidance.

[heromaniac]

Momoko nodded, still leaning against the bigger girl and trying to make her steps match Triela's pace. "He's tot'ly awesome at hide n'seek, though. I think it's 'cause he's a bear."

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"Bears have special hiding abilities?" Triela asked a bit absently. Something felt... familiar... Was she remembering this little girl from somewhere, maybe?

[heromaniac]

"I think so. Mister Bear is allays telling me about stuff bears can do. I think he makes some stuff up but that's okay 'cause he let's me cry on him when I'm scared an' he tells me heroes stories when I can't asleep."

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"That's very nice of him." Triela was kind of having the conversation on auto pilot, and was a bit surprised as her hand reached out to turn a doorknob.

Did she think there was a bear in there?

[heromaniac]

"He's a very nice bear." Since they'd stopped, Momoko took a moment to lean down and scratch her leg. "That's why I want to find him so he won't be a'scared no more, 'cause he's nice to me even if no one else is."

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"Why isn't anyone else nice to you?" Triela asked as she flicked on the light and looked around the room.

Huh...

There were some bears on that dresser over there. They seemed... familiar? Is that him?" she asked, pointing.

[heromaniac]

Momoko let go of Triela's hand and eagerly ran to look at the dresser, jumping to try to see on top and around all of Triela's bears. "Where? Where? I can't see him!"

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"The... one with the ribbon?" There were actually two bears with ribbons there. But Triela had a feeling that neither of them was named 'Mister Bear'.

[heromaniac]

Still more bouncing. "I don' see! Yours are in th'way!" Maybe she needed a boost? "MISTER BEAR! ARE YOU UP THERE?! No hidin'!!"

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"Mine?" Triela didn't have any bears.

Did she?

[heromaniac]

Momoko was a bit busy pulling on the handles of the dresser to try to climb up and seeeeeeee, so she didn't really register the level of Triela's confusion. "Yeah. Is Mister Bear behind yours? He likes havin' tea parties, 'specially with other bears. He says it's a'cause he's a gennelman."

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"Let me give you a hand," Triela offered, coming up behind Momoko to lift her up. It would be bad if she fell off the dresser, after all.

[heromaniac]

"Thank you." Momoko automatically replied and let go of the dresser, trying to stretch as she was lifted. "I don't see him up here." She reached for the larger of the ribboned bears she did see, picking him up and looking behind, just in case.

"You have lotsa bears, Triela. You must really really really like bears!"