Power Within... [Open]

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Within the Sensoriums, Sasami sat idly in a room decorated with various items. Magical items, in fact. Not only did she have the potential for amazing magical power, but she also knew Tsunami's power was being locked away. If she could mix the two, she might be able to free Tsunami and end this silly conflict.

However, there laid the problem. Being bonded to a goddess, there was tons of power that could be used. At the same time, there was also various magic types out there, especially with what was being used on the ship. Negi was teaching her one style, but it was still very basic, even with her Pactio. There were others out there, too. Commander Nanoha had one style, and so did Councilman Matt. Evangeline was something like Negi, but she probably would never train her, especially after that outburst trying to help Negi. But, wasn't there others like Hay Lin-neesan or Aqua-neesan?

She let out a sigh. Maybe she was thinking too hard about this. She did have other stuff she could be working on at the moment, like her restaurant.

Or maybe she shouldn't be working at all...

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"I want to fight for everyone!" Sasami said, a determined look on her face. "I want to help everyone here, no matter what." She looked down a bit as she tried to find the words.

"I know everyone's worried about me, about how I've pushed myself here. I tried joining the Council twice - I even turned down a third time because someone was repodded - and I've been trying to set up a place for others to eat at, but... what you did, what Negi did, what everyone did when KAIN attacked and knowing what I have now..."

She looked back up at Eva.

"I want to return that favor, but... I can't do it by myself. I need help."

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Tch. The girl knew she'd fought, huh? She'd been hoping that wouldn't get around. People always seemed to take it the wrong way when she fought their enemies... and she liked the solitude she had in the ship. No one here bothered her.

"You will suffer for it. And when you are hurt it will hurt all those who used to protect you. And it may be that it comes to naught, that you fail those you mean to protect."

The voice was superficially taunting, not so different from her normal tone... but there was a coldness underneath it. A seriousness that didn't attend her more casual quarreling. She was not saying nice things, but they were, so far as she was concerned, the truth.

"And you will see the world through the eyes power gives you. That don't let you look on anything without knowing your capacity to change it. And when you know how little you cannot do you will find out just what kind of person you really are."

...she really wished she'd brought something with her to crush for dramatic effect right about now. That would have been great.

She smiled a thin smile. "It would be fun to watch you come to grips with all that, of course. But consider what you have. In the midst of all this-" The ship, the war against the Ohm, she meant. "-you are free to be a child. You are protected by those who have already given up that happiness that they might do so. Your own sacrifice denies theirs. Is it worth it?"

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Sasami listened to Eva's speech intently. She could tell that she was trying to dissuade her from doing this.

"Eva... I haven't been a child since I was three." Sasami said, finally. "I don't know if I can call it that, really. I'm not the real Sasami. The real Sasami died seven hundred years ago." Truth be told, that was a lie, but it was a lie she's been convinced of for that long. "I'm nothing more than a vessel for the power within, a power that's now locked..."

She looked down a bit. "I've seen a lot before I came here. I've... I've destroyed a lot." Her mind flashed back to her - no, Tsunami's - fight with Tokimi and that it destroyed part of the galaxy with just one blow. "But, if I can protect those I love here, then it's a sacrifice I can live with! But..."

She looked back up at Eva. "Don't tell me that those who watch over me have sacrificed their happiness for me. I know they've done so much more before we ever met." Aqua, Hay Lin, Reimi, even Negi... they've been so much more than she ever did. "I'm not going to make their sacrifices in vain. I'm going to make sure that we all live together."