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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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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.

"Ohhh, it's alright. Bureaucracy is somethin' I can put up with. 'm just glad yer okay..."

She did wonder now whether Fate could just magically fix her reader the way she fixed Bardiche all the time.

"Oh, don't worry about me. I'm a big girl...!" Irma put an arm around Hayate's shoulder, giving the other girl a brief, reassuring hug.

"I have to admit, though, I'm kinda glad I don't have to worry about that sort of thing. The red tape business, that is. I don't think I could handle it."

She returns the hug. "At home I was a military officer, soooooo..." There was a lot of it.

"Ew... closest thing I had to that was my dad and he was a police officer." She could sympathize with you, Hayate. She could sympathize.

"I can do that kinda thing preeeetty quickly now tho'..."

She looks thoughtful for a moment as she telepathizes her ... wow Nanoha was her boss now.

"I'll be there in a second, Hayate-chan. Hang on!"

A-ah, I'm just being thorough by tellin' ya; if yer busy don't rush t' th' scene or anythin'...

I'm not busy. What's wrong?

I just sneezed so hard that it apparently cracked a computer screen and deafened someone for a little while, an' that shouldn't be possible.

...I'm sorry, come again? I don't think I heard that right.

Nah, that's how I know ya got the message clear. Relay it back to me just to be sure if ya want.

You... sneezed and cracked a screen and deafened someone?

Bingo. It was really loud. Really loud. Don't ask, I don't know.

I'll be there as soon as I can. ...but if your sneezes are that loud, I'm not sure how we'd contain it.

Would a Barrier spell work?

So the solution is quarantine. Well, that's justified. I dunno if it'll work, but ...

Do you have a better idea? If your sneeze could break equipment or hurt somebody, then I don't know if we should take chances.

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