godbent | 43rd: The Practice of Haruhi Suzumiya

[Voice // Filtered to the SOS-Brigade]
Alright, I'm back! We'll be moving on to new and better things soon, because I've decided on how we're going to ring out spring! Details in the next meeting, so be sure all of you are at it, even if meetings have been a little lax lately. Failure to be there will be met with punishment!

Oh-! Right! All of you met our new members [Diamond, Pearl, Twilight, Usagi] by now, right? If you somehow didn't, get on that! After all, I'm going to promote one of my Brigade members to Deputy-Vice-Chief sometime soon, and there's no way you'll be in the running unless you're on the ball.

Over and out.

[Action]
[And with that out of the way, Haruhi Suzumiya is back in the village proper. It's only been a little more than a week since she started her "camp all over the place to try to hook up with more filial spirits" plan, but she's already started to hear more than she did before. Sona was still blocking her, but now she thinks she's been hearing more from Tsinku and Kipinn (finally) is something she's been starting to work with magically. So now she's back in town and decides--

You know what, it's warmer out after that cold snap and it's not raining. So she's going to just spend the whole day outside. She considers a Flower Viewing, but that's no good solo. Instead, she goes back to House 10 to dig through it until she finds her guitar and then goes to sit down on the edge of the fountain with it. She practiced a lot with it last year, but she hasn't in a while--

But after some messing around, it's not perfect, but she might be playing this or this as well as she can from memory, and after that she just starts to do random things which come to mind. She's surprised how well she can remember, and wonders a little why she stopped in the first place. This is sort of fun]

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[Rosemary is trying to find the nearest store when she hears the guitar and turns to see who's playing it.]

Hey, that's pretty good!

[And she strums a last chord, stops, opened her eyes, and grins over at the younger girl. In spite of herself, she's pleased to hear it, buuut, ego calls-]

Well, naturally. I'm pretty talented after all.

I wish I was that good.

I'm Rosemary Applefield. What's your name?

[Wow friendly] I'm Haruhi -- Haruhi Suzumiya. [Tapping her guitar lightly in lieu of any sort of polite bow, that is]

So, Miss Suzumiya, is there a certain position or job you hold here in this village?

Where's that come from?

[Adopting a flat look in no time flat]

I was just wondering whether you were a professional musician or something along those lines. You certainly have the talent.

Haaah? No, of course not! I just picked this up on a whim! [Somewhat flushed, she waves a hand dismissively to try to pass that off]

Oh, OK! Sorry. What do you do for a career then? I'm still trying to find one of my own.

Car-- Who does a career in Luceti, come on! I'm the leader of the SOS-Brigade, but it's not like that's a career.

[That would be stuffy and status quo!]

So it's true. There really are no paying jobs in this city.

What does a leader of the SOS-Brigade do?

She leads the infamous SOS-Brigade, of course! We're even in the guide and our HQ is right there - [Nodding in the direction of the sign with the symbol on it] So it's not like you can miss it.