Description: Migning Beart goes to the shrine looking for her granny, but she finds a swordsman. Vince LaRose goes to the shrine looking for tranquil training, but he finds a witch. Though Mignon didn't inquire much of anything about Monsieur LaRose, Vince learned a fair bit about the overly-energetic Mignon - including the existence of an intriguing sister at Seijyun High.
It's a wonderful in the neighborhood a wonderful day in the neighborhood~ toooodaaay.
And Mignon is enjoying the evil-less Sunday. Skipping happily through the Shrine, she's just visiting. For a prayer? Oh No. OHHHH no no no. That's certainly not what she's doing. As she skips into the area, Mignon 's rather quiet act breaks like glass was shattering. "HelllOOOOO~ spirits! Mignon is here to talk to her grammy ooookaaaay?" She yells out rather loudly, happily piku-ing towards the building, her boots touching against the ground. Waving a hand to all the 'spirits', Mignon gets to moving in closer, and takes her good time getting there!
Oh, daw, Mignon is going to talk with her grammy. But there's a problem with this. She doesn't live in the Shrine.. and she ain't dead.
"GRAMMMYYYY do you hear me!?" She calls out, "MIGNON'S HEAR TO TALK TO YOUUUUU!" Yeah, she can't be any louder if she tried! But she comes to a stop as she skids a bit, hopping to a stop and waving her arms. "WHEW! Mignon nearby dived into the ground.. then Mignon might not be able to talk to her grammy! .. Oh, GRAMMY! Are you over here?" She looks about the building, peering around it.
Eventually, she climbs on top it and sits, after looking under and around .. over! "Hmm.. where's grammy?" If they're even farther off.. then Mignon just wandered deeper into the forest, looking.
The shrine deep in the forest. A peaceful, tranquil location, and safely secluded from prying eyes. The lackluster condition of the shrine really makes it perfect for a meeting place, and that's why Vince has chosen it for studies, training sessions, and - you guessed it - meetings. It only makes sense.
But today, something is strange. Something is different. It could have something to do with the very shrill voice piercing the forest. It probably is. ..Ah, screw it. That -is- what it is. Vince's pace quickens at the mention of spirits, brow furrowed. The caped rogue dashes through the forest, twigs brushing against his shoulders and hat until he finally makes the clearing.
But he doesn't see anyone. Mignon is on the rooftop right now.
So Vince does the only thing an over-confident adventurer can do. He shouts. "Hello?"
Mighty Mignon's windpipes are like a hurricane today, with a constant breeze of yelling! And ending up on top of the Shrine, Mignon is just sitting there.. sniffling. "Where is grammy.. I thought Grammy would be here!" She says to herself, but bucks up, immediately stopping the sniffling because GRAMMY WOULDN'T LIKE TO SEE HER SO WEAK! And Sad. And ... well Mignon, good witch of the ... EVERYWHERE, decided that she can't be like that!
So clearly it's done.
"Ooh. Who's that? Maybe he knows Mignon's grammy!" She climbs to the edge of the roof, leeeeans over and then .. "HIIII-oop!" And Waving, begins to tumble down the front of the building, "WowoWOAAAH!" She cries out, before falling of the edge..and landing on her feet like a cat. "Woah did you SEE that Mignon was nearly going to go SPLAT but Mignon is just too much for roofs so it probably couldn't take her any longer!" She's certainly happy at least.
"Oh, hello! Mignon is happy to meet you! Do you know Mignon's grammy? She's looking for her! She's somewhere in America but Mignon thought she'd look here!" .. Yeah she's perhaps the not brightest bulb.
Vince's icy blue eyes fix on a curious shape on the roof of the shrine. His right hand drifts to the hilt of his rapier.. only she steals away all senses of caution when she goes tumbling down. No way she could be a threat, right?
And once the girl has landed in front of him, on her space boots(tm), Vince just.. stares. Openly. He has no idea what to make of her.
"I.. ah.. no." The response is awkward at best, but at least his tone is more even, naturally silky smooth voice coming out, laced with just a hint of a French accent.
As Vince responds, Mignon blinks. "Oh that means Mignon's grammy isn't here.. hmm.. Maybe Mignon should call her next time!" She says to herself, turning a bit away from Vince as she talks to herself, which she is quite good at. "Mignon REALLLLLY thought she'd be here but! Maybe Mignon doesn't really know her vacation schedules as well as she thinks."
Tapping her chin, she turns around with a PIKU her boots flashing once and making an odd sound.. it's certainly odd, at least, normally. "So Mr why are you here? Is it because you thought Mignon was in distress.. OH I know! .. YOU WERE PREYING ON MIGNON IN DISTRESS!" She yells out, loudly, and points, clearly offended! "MIGNON is NOT happy!"
Zounds, this girl is strange. Vince just stands there as she goes on about her own conversation, right up until she whirls on him in a threatening manner. Yet still, Vince is not threatened by her. She's too... well..
-Look- at her, for crying out loud.
"Do I look the sort to prey?," asks the young swordsman, quirking a single eyebrow at her. "I've not drawn a blade on you."
Mignon is silent for a bit as she looks at the swordsman for a moment and then finally speaks up. "Hmm.. Mignon thinks... No. Maybe not!" She explains, responding with a shrug. "Mignon has to keep herself safe so Mignon isn't going to let ANY evil threaten her or her friends, or any good people because Mignon is dedicated to HELPING!" She thrusts a hand into the air and smiles.
Mhmm, Mignon certainly likes to help. "So maybe you're not. Mignon can be wrong too!" She explains as she pikus a bit, walking this way and that as she looks around. "But maybe .. Maybe Ninon is nearby! .. Nah Mignon saw her sleeping when she looked into her room to make sure she's safe."
"You're... rather confusing, you know," Vince mentions. "I can only assume your name is Mignon." His left hand casually settles over the pommel of his sheathed blade while his head tilts aside slightly, examining the girl intently. "And it would seem that your grandmother is not here."
As Vince explains how confusing she is, Mignon tilts her head. "Yeeeah, Mignon IS named Mignon! That's right!" She nods her head a bit. "But Mignon isn't keeping that secret because Mignon NEEDS people to know so they know to stop their evil ways so Mignon wouldn't need to make them! ANd that's why Mignon isn't shamed about it! Plus Mignon is a good witch." She adds, skipping away a bit. "Mhmm, Mignon's grammy lives soooo far away but she visits sometimes so Mignon thought she'd be here!" Oh boy.
"But Mignon must have gotten the weeks and months mixed up again! Oh well!" Spinning around, Mignon continues to go on a non-sensical spree. "Don't you ever do that? Get so many silly things mixed up? I remember when I mixed up homework with schoolwork! Mignon took a test at home but they didn't accept it because it was supposed to be done in school.. but Mignon understands now!"
"Ah.. sometimes..," Vince says, the odd feeling towards the girl simply growing. His head tilts in the other direction. "Did you just say... 'good witch'?," he asks. Man, she -does- remind him of someone who claimed to be a witch. But that person was way, way too dense to be any sort of witch. This girl, however, is much younger. So who knows?
"Yeah see! Mignon TOTALLY knows her stuff!" She explains, smiling brightly, before she nods again. "Oh yes, Mignon is a good witch! She knows all kinds of magic.. but it's good magic! She only uses it to take care of evil and all of those mean guys that hurt people!" She proudly explains, bouncing in place!
"Mignon learned that she was a witch from her grammy, and she can use it for all KINDS of things .. like fire balls and windstorms and and water and lightning!" She explains, nodding, happily. "But Mignon knows she can ONLY use her powers for good and Mignon intends to do just that!..Oh Mignon has a sister too but you know Mignon wonders about her sister... she's been looking sad sometimes, but she's a witchy poo too!"
Vince furrows his brow at her. "..Really?," he asks. "Both yourself and your sister? Witches?" Fascinating! He'd much sooner believe this girl than the other one. Even with her space boots(tm). "Can you perhaps demonstrate something for me? One of your spells?" She seems adamant enough in it being for good, and he has a hard time seeing this girl as bad.
And Vince is paying attention to her .. wow he really is! Mignon noddles once, but then leaps up. "UH HUH! Mignon is a really good witch, but my sissy isn't always so nice to Mignon. Mignon isn't sure exactly why but Mignon LOOOOVES her sissy!" She exclaims, happily, bouncing still. She's not quite the one to STOP moving. It just doesn't happen.
But when Vince asks her about a demonstration, Mignon thinks. "Welllll.. Okay! Mignon knows one that she can do without hurting anything!" And flipping backwards, Mignon lands with her hands upwards. "TADAAAH~! Okay.. now the magic.. Water UP!" She calls, before POOF, erupting from her feet and around her is a fountain of water, completely shielding about her for a few moments before splashing outwards and into the ground.
"See? Mignon is a witch! Mignon's a GOOD witch though so she's learned how to make people hurt less with her magic too .. but Mignon really needs to put effort into that .. and Mignon doesn't think she can right now!" She laments, but shrugs!
Vince observes in silence, apparently having much less trouble keeping himself composed and calm. Except for when the water sprouts up. Vince's eyes widen, and his head cants forward. "Well, then! You really seem to be what you claim!" And he looks genuinely impressed. "May I ask how old you are? Are you a student in Southtown?"
The more he speaks now, the brighter his icy blue eyes seem to get.
For a moment Mignon stands there, with Vince just watching. Especially as he explains she's what she claims is true. This confuses Mignon, who stands there.
"Uhh ... Mignon .. knows she's what she claims... are y-you calling Mignon a liar!? Because Mignon thinks you just did!" She points.. but asked her age, Mignon blinks. "Oh Mignon is fourte-HEY are you trying to call Mignon a kid!? Mignon is NOT a kid!" So the answer is she is.
"Oh nope! Mignon is from Salem, Massachu..setts?" She explains, shrugging. "Mhmm.. Mignon's in Seijyun with her sissy!" She's happy enough.
Happy, but ditzy as sin. Vince is left staring blankly at her for a few moments. "..You take more or less everything as an insult, don't you?," he asks. He shakes his head quickly, a bit of the wonderment lost on her attitude. "So your sister, another witch, attends Seijyun. How interesting." Maybe Seijyun has a few secrets that could do with some unearthing! "I may have to visit sometime."
Mignon thinks for a second, then shakes her head. "Noooope! Mignon is just sometimes confused to what people are saying but knows that they're good people when they are so they AREN'T trying to hurt her feelings!" She beams, and skips a bit around Vince. Yeah, her attitude is childlike .. Mignon of course is just that though! Ninon .. now she's the serious one. "Oh yeah, Ninon is sooooooooo serious! She's just all kinds of serious and Mignon is trying to make her be better but she's all serious when Mignon doesn't know what to dooooooooooo." ..
Perhaps it's like white and black with the two .. or light and dark. "Oh Mignon wouldn't mind but sissy might!" She adds in stopping.
Vince turns his head to keep her in sight as she paces and hops about, listening to her. She sounds extremely mixed up. Is she saying Vince is bad? She keeps questioning -him-.. so.. bah. If he tries to make sense of her logic, he'll wind up just as confused, he's sure.
But the last comment gets a curious enough look from him. "Why is that?," he asks.
As he follows, at least with eyes, Mignon is happy enough to keep skipping. And Mignon's logic is a bit hard to follow, but it's going to lead people in circles.. and then squares. Octagons.. and then dodecahedrons! It just KEEPS GOING. But thankfully, Vince decides not to.
But with Vince asking about that, Mignon laments. "Oh? Sissy? Mignon doesn't think sissy is going down the right path .. Mignon thinks she's going to be a sassy young witch and that's not good! .. Oh and sissy doesn't like her big sister."
"Oh, that's a shame." Vince frowns slightly at Mignong, then shrugs his shoulders. "You're a good influence on her though, I'm sure." He tilts aside from the girl to peer at the shrine, as if expecting someone else to pop out. Maybe the sister? "Does she look like you?," he asks idly, attention drifting back to Mignon.
"But don't worry because Mignon has it ALL taken care of!" She explains, nodding, and laughs.
Does she what? "Oh Mignon is certain she's not like her at all. Sissy is smaller and wears all of this black and lacy stuff.. nothing like a good lady should!" Actually yes, they should. Lace and dresses.. unlike Mignon's weird get up. "Especially like Mignon is!" Yeaaah.
"Oh and her hair is kind of short too!" She adds in, mhmm! .. Unlike the swirl hair that is PINK that Mignon has.
In short: nothing like Mignon. But hey, black and lacey is pretty easy to spot. ..Perhaps not so stand-out'ish as Mignon's outfit, but certainly out there. "I see..."
Vince fidgets a moment, uncertain what to say.. until a thought crosses his mind. "You have a curious name for an American. Mignon is a French word," he notes.
Wow Vince catches on pretty quickly. Mignon continues to keep tooling around, walking oddly in circles around Vince like she was preparing to warp him to ANOTHER DIMENSION. But really, she isn't.
"Mhmmm!" She agrees, and then asks her about her name. Mignon blinks as she walks about, and then responds .. like she does. "Oh? Well Mignon LIKES her name because her mother gave her this name! And Ninon has a close name to Mignon too! So Mommy totally knew what she was doing .. Yep!" She adds, "Yaaaaay for names!" She stops and celebrates.
Vince opens his mouth to elaborate, but... she just seems thrilled by the name itself. So why bother? He's steadily coming to the conclusion that this girl is.. a complete spaz. Very unlike that idiotic woman who claimed to be a witch, yet at the same time, had he not seen a demonstration and hear the girl's conviction concerning the matter, he'd likely meet Mignon with some incredulism. "Do you usually meet your grandmother here?," he asks, giving a change of subject a chance. Maybe she'll say something really interesting again.
"Nope!" Mignon explains, smiling. "But when we said we'd meet next it'd be near one of these shriny things and I thought maybe today was the best day too.. but it doesn't seem to be time yet!" She doesn't understand that that might mean death, but neither does Mignon seem to pay attention to it, either. Her grammy is alive though..
Even if sometimes she forgets a few things about them all. "So Mignon is going to meet grammy here ONE DAY so Mignon decided to see if she was here yet is all!" She adds, smiling and skipping towards the shrine to balance on a pole.
Vince lets out a 'huh' sound and nods. "Well.. that's.. interesting enough." But not quite interesting enough to maintain his attention. The shrine is clearly occupied for the time being, and he'll certainly not have a truly meditative training session today. Not with the witch bouncing around and possibly screaming again. So the swordsman seems content to begin inching back towards the forest.
"Well, I suppose I should return to Pacific.."
"MHMM!" Oh right Mignon isn't really a great wordsmith though, and as Vince begins to inch towards the forest, Mignon blinks. "OKAY!!! Thanks for talking Mr. Swordy guy from Pacific High! Mignon will tell all the people about you and stuff.. Mignon is happy to talk with you and meet you and Bye byeeeeeee!" She waves, beaming brightly, towards Vince as he goes, before skipping away.
"Toodle doo!" And then .. she goes to leave?
Vince might not have to leave after all!
Log created on 19:33:26 07/20/2008 by Vince, and last modified on 20:37:49 07/23/2008.