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[whatoncewaswhole]

Who: Open to anyone, but anyone from the first log will be doubly urged to come.
Where: Starting in Virgo, leading in to Gemini.
Summary: The next night, the song is back, and even stronger...but this time, it seems to have a purpose.
Warnings: Secondary, small plot event
The 27th seemed to have been a bust. Many stood around, discussing the strange music, before eventually retiring when exhaustion hit after the 13th hour...and boy did it. Strangely, the civilian population- even persona users -reported to not hearing anything at all.

The night of the 28th, it happened again. The same song, the same pleading call, to the same row of shops. But something did change, as midnight melted quickly towards the Thirteenth hour.

Another noise sought to be heard over the music- this one akin to television static. If one looked closely at the glass of the nearby shop windows, they could see something cloudy forming on them...but that was only a reflection. Nothing stood in that spot in the street. A figure took form amid the shimmered raindrops, only visible in the reflection of the rain and the glass. A ghost, glowing dimly, with eyes so pitch black that one could never see through them. And where were those unending eyes pointed? Up at Mount Utsugi, giving way to Mictlan...

It moved instinctively, heading for the structure without any glance at the Persona users it had called out to. The piper had it's children, and now it only had to lead them...

[ OOC: Feel free to try to interact with the ghostly figure, or just go along for the ride! And just to clarify, yeah the ghost has no physical form- it's only visible in reflective surfaces -so if you wanna follow it, you might need a mirror or something. If you want to know if something would work for that, just bug me on plurk (gaakishi)! ]

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[drakenguard]

Strange though, that the COMP glasses could not see as clearly as the ones this man - he realised he never caught his name - was wearing. Were they made out of different material? Did they perhaps have some form of enchantment...?

"What are those made of?" he asked, his curiosity finally demanding he asked.

[whatoncewaswhole]

Unaware of the conversation going on behind itself, the figure passed without a care past a garland of bottles and jars, their form jittering across the surfaces oddly.

"Mᴀʏʙᴇ..."

The hushed words didn't last long- and the figure kept going as if nothing had been uttered at all

[linefacingforever]

Yu was about to answer when he heard that faint word, whispered just above the hiss of the rain. He almost stopped dead in his tracks in surprise -- as it was he fumbled a bit. Maybe... maybe what? Part of him was screaming to turn back, that this was an obvious trap and he shouldn't be falling into it, while the other half was just curious as to what the heck was going on.

"...I don't know," he finally answered Yamato, picking up the pace after the ghost.

[drakenguard]

Yamato also heard the hushed words, and a prickle of unease crawled over his skin. However he didn't falter or turn back - no he was determined to get to the bottom of this - so he simply picked up the pace along with Yu.

He really didn't like this - he really truly didn't. He couldn't see the ghost, only glimpses of it, and it was leading them to the mountain, which became a hotspot of demons in the 13th Hour. It was obvious what this was...

"This is a trap," Yamato sighed to himself, but regardless he still kept pace with Yu.

[linefacingforever]

"Yeah," Yu agreed, able to feel Izanagi nodding as well in the back of his mind. Of course, he wasn't going to slow down his run; if this was something dangerous? Oh yeah, he was going to do something about it, or at least get a feel for what it was before making a retreat.

Izanami... please don't be the one behind this...

[drakenguard]

Yamato quietened and they ran in silence for a while, their steps splashing through the occasional puddle. The rain thickened at this point, a slight haze lurking close to the surface of the street, and the mountain was looming ever closer.

Ugh, he should've brought a hair tie or something. It was annoying having to deal with it when it was loose and wet. He slowed to a mild jog, letting Yu move ahead of him by a few paces. He was considering...the other could see where the invisible demon was, so perhaps Yamato could end this if they just simply attacked the thing?

"Have you thought about restraining it through the use of your Persona? You can see it clearly, after all."

[linefacingforever]

Yu glanced back at him; honestly, he hadn't thought of that, and it showed on his face. He reached out, clenching his hand... mostly out of habit. One of these days, he'll stop doing that when summoning his soul Persona.

"Izanagi!"

Let's see how his Persona can handle that thing.