I think I was trying to come up with a reasonable response to the Dark Hour, without having the character end up useless.
Fear and Ramen
The next night she spent hidden in her basement with the coffin of her dog. The only was in was a door up the short flight of stairs, but she couldn't be sure shadows couldn't just slip in through the wall.
Then again, she couldn't be sure they couldn't just smell her out either.
When the lights turned on again, she swore that was going to be the last time she worried like that.
He was sitting at the Hakagure shop with a bowl or ramen when he heard a familiar voice behind him. "Sempai!"
Turning he saw the girl he'd saved two nights before.
"I didn't know you ate here!" she told him, sitting next to him, all smiles.
He just stared.
She wilted a little but continued, "I'm sorry, but I have a question."
"Mmm," he muttered and turned back to his food.
She ordered, and turned back to him. "I've found out that I experience the Dark Hour every night, and those dreams I've had of the moon turning green was probably that too."
"And how long would that make it?" He asked gruffly.
"At least 3 years," she murmured.
He blinked, and she was still alive?
"I was wondering how I hadn't been eaten yet, since I was too scared to sleep last night, and I can't really not sleep and expect to function," she told him honestly. The server brought her food and she thanked him, before turning back to Shinjiro.
He had been looking at her strangely, and looked away, "As far as I know, you would be dead by now." She shivered.
"Did you ever get saved by anything like Castor before?" He asked her, but she shook her head. No Persona, huh, that was odd.
"Can I ask so sit with you through the hour tonight?" She asked him suddenly and he choked.
"You can't come to that part of town!"
She sighed, "Ok, but you're being a hypocrite. I suppose you can probably actually defend yourself tho."
He nodded seriously, "You'd be in more danger there than during the dark hour." He looked into his bowl thoughtfully, "How did you know to run from the shadow?"
"Huh?" She looked at him in surprise.
"I mean, they don't usually walk around the town, so, how were you awake to run away?"
"Hmm, I couldn't sleep," she told him, "And when I saw it, ripping something to shreds, I ran instead of lock myself in the house because… I didn't know If it would keep it out, and I didn't want to be trapped inside."
He nodded, "Then you know where to find me if you can't sleep again during the dark hour. But only come then."
She smiled so thankfully he was embarrassed.
They ate in silence for a while, then she asked, quietly, "What grade is sempai in?"
"Sophomore," he told her.
She nodded, "And do you go to Gekkoukan?"
"Yea… why?"
"Just curious," she told him, "Sorry if I sounded like a stalker, but I go there to. I'm a freshman tho." She stared ahead thoughtfully for a while, then blinked, and turned to him with a smile, "Maybe I'll see sempai around then."
He started as she drained the ramen broth out of her bowl and wiped her mouth. "Thank you, sempai," she said one last time before she put the bowl in the plate return and walked out of the shop.
He stared after her for a few seconds before shaking his head and returning to his ramen.