Lonely Rolling Star~ [OPEN]

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Anyone paying attention in the City today will notice a bizarre sight-- a small lump of garbage, roughly a foot and a half in diameter, rolling up and down the streets. It's mostly made out of bits of rubble, broken glass and garbage, the odd misplaced or discarded item, the occasional loose cobblestone that's been dragged up from the street. Several crew members innocently dropped something they were carrying and found it suddenly snatched by the trashy menace and on its way down the street.

Behind the ball of garbage, pushing it along, is a well-meaning but rather misguided little space person with a pad of paper and a magenta colored pencil strapped to him like a backpack. On the paper is written a message:

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WE ARE SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE!
WE WILL HAVE YOUR PLANETS RESTORED SOON!

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He looks hard at work, but he would be happy to stop and chat with his subjects.

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Setsuna had always been quick on her feet, and the katamari was still relatively small, so indeed, it didn't take her long to catch up. She glanced down at the note on the Prince's back, but there wasn't time to try to figure out what it meant. With a mighty leap, she soared over the still-rolling ball, turning in mid-air, and landed directly in front of it, one hand on the ground. "Halt!"

The Prince's proximity alarm would probably start blaring right about now.


((Bed, but I shall pick up!))

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The katamari bonked into the girl's leg, bounced off and sent the Prince sprawling on the ground behind him. Fortunately, he was a very durable prince and the katamari was surprisingly soft for being full of rocks and broken glass.

The Prince sat up and rubbed his head, glancing up and noticing the human girl for the first time. Oh, whoops. She was halting at him.

He stood up, waved to her and then gave a noble little bow of greeting.

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The katamari bounced off of Setsuna's leg, knocking the tiny creature that was pushing it backward. Setsuna immediately began to feel a little guilty. She had meant for him to stop, not to be stopped. And then he was so polite in greeting her, even though she had just knocked him down...

"Ah, good day," Setsuna managed, bowing in turn to the diminutive Prince before crouching in front of him. "I, er... I apologize for stopping you so suddenly, but this... ball of yours... has picked up an item that is very important to me." It felt a little odd, addressing such a tiny being, but honestly Setsuna had met much stranger beings than him, both before and after her arrival on the ship.

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The Prince put a hand to his chin thoughtfully as he listened to her, his eyes suddenly widening. Oh... he hadn't meant to take anything that belonged to someone. He'd assumed that nobody would miss the things he was gathering.

He nodded in understanding, then set to scaling up the side of the katamari until he reached the top. Then he used his feet to turn it slightly until he found a rainboot, unsticking it from the ball and holding it up for her.

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Setsuna hoped it wasn't uncouth of her to think that the sight of the Prince clambering up his katamari was really very cute. He plucked a rainboot and offered it to her, and she chuckled and shook her head. "Ah, thank you, but what I'm looking for is a card. It, er..." Setsuna patted her breast pocket, then pulled another card (http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081230145520/mahousenseinegima/images/0/0d/Card_Setsuna.jpg) out of it. "It looks just like this, only the picture is slightly different."

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The Prince nodded excitedly and continued rotating the katamari, finally reaching down and unsticking a Queen of Diamonds playing card and offering that to her instead.

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"Ah... N-Not quite," Setsuna responded. "Forgive me, but may I take a look myself?" The ponytailed girl looked over the katamari for her Pactio card, brow furrowing at the assortment of strange junk and miscellaneous items that clung to it. "What... exactly is this, anyway?" she asked, only half realizing the words had been spoken aloud.

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The Prince nodded again, slowly rotating the katamari and finding what had to be an entire deck of playing cards scattered across one side. Good thing she asked to look by herself, or they'd be here all day.

He took a moment to scribble down an answer to her question.

[IT IS A KATAMARI FULL OF THINGS. SOON IT WILL BE A PLANET!]

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Setsuna paled for an instant at the sight of all those cards. But it wouldn't be too difficult to find her Pactio card in all that. Sure enough, she found it after a few seconds of sliding cards around, and she carefully levered it off of the strangely sticky ball. "There! Thank you very much."

The girl leaned in to examine the note curiously... and her eyes widened at what she read. "A planet? What -- How is that possible?" Her initial reaction was that it wasn't, but she had seen stranger things in her life...


((Right, almost forgot to say -- very sorry for the delay! It's been one of those weeks.))