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Hayate was ever so peaceful in the hydroponics. The over lapping leaves of plants crowded together gave an atmosphere brimming with life; what's more, it was relatively quiet and calm. All in all, it was the perfect place to enjoy reading some poetry, especially poetry celebrating nature. It was an act of idealism; there was so little of the nature she was used to around here.

She crunched on little celery she picked, and swallowed, fingers flipping another page. She cleared her throat and read quietly aloud, but in the otherwise almost silent seclusion, it was audible.

A saturated meadow,
Sunshaped and jewel-small,
A circle scarely wider
Than the trees around are tah--tah, aachcoo!"

Her sneeze howls out with ear-splitting loudness, cracking the screen of her digital reader. "Ahhh!!" By comparison to the sneeze, her panicked cry was almost quiet. Or maybe the sneeze was downright deafening.

Her jaw dropped as she stared down at her damaged screen. What is this, Hayate doesn't even

... It's kind of legible on the top half still... she sniffled...

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"My ears... ringing... can't hear..."

Irma had to be in the wrong place at the right time. The second Hayate had sneezed, she was passing by the mage when it struck. A moment later, the Water Guardian was on her knees covering her ears in pain.

"Wh... what the hell was that?!"

Oh, if she could hear the answer... or her own question.

Oh, Hayate could hear just fine, not being in the area of effect and all! "'m sorry!" She quickly sets down her broken digital reader and scrambles over to Irma. "I, I don't know. What's th' matter? Are ya alright?"

Irma looks up, noticing Hayate approaching. She sees her lips moving, but can't hear anything at the moment.

"What? Speak up! I can't hear you! My ears are ringing!" Irma said, nearly shouting. Give her a bit, Hayate...!

Oh-oh my. Telepathy it was then!

Are ya alright?

She kneels down next to Irma.

Telepathy wasn't new to Irma, so at least she wasn't surprised to hear the other girl speaking to her that way.

I-I'm fine, just... one minute I'm just passing along here out of boredom, then next I can't even hear myself! she replied. G-Give me a moment, though... I think it's starting to come back slowly...

It all happened so suddenly she wasn't even sure whether it really could have been herself who did this. It shouldn't have been, and yet the timing was perfect ... nothing added up.

Oh, I didn't know ya could do this too. W, well... 'm just glad yer okay ... relativ'ly speakin', anyway...

A friend of mine does this all the time, so...! Irma said, waving off the telepathy thing. Right now, she wished that friend was here, but beggars can't be choosers.

Using Hayate as a brace, Irma staggered to her feet.

"Ugh... okay, hearing's coming back... and don't blame yourself... well... if it was your fault."

"I hope not anyway, 'cause I sure don't know what happened..." And she sure didn't want it to happen again...

She rose up, shouldering the other woman.

A slight sigh leaves Irma's lips as she starts to get back to normal. Her hearing's still off, but it's enough to have a conversation, at least.

"So, what were you doing out here before... whatever just happened?"

Her expression turns sour as a sentient lemon playing Scrooge (ala a Christmas Carol) as she recalls the state of her reader. "I was reading..."

Irma couldn't help but wince at that. Whatever rendered her deaf temporarily had ruined things...

"Ouch... You don't think you can get back to doing so, would you?" she asked, unknowing of the fate of the reader.

"Whatever that was broke it..."

"... well. Mostly."

And another wince. So, whatever that was that deafened Irma was also loud enough to break the reader.

"Great... which means, who or whatever caused this problem is gonna be real dangerous..."

Hayate winced now. "Great. An' on top of that, now I'm gonna t' have t' get tied up in th' red tape o' making reports..."

"Hey, don't let it get to ya..." Irma said, laying a hand on her shoulder. "It's... probably not so bad. I think."

She grinned sheepishly at that.

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