Disclaimer: I don't own Hyperdimension Neptunia, it belongs to Idea Factory, Compile Heart, Sega and whomever else works on it.

I find it hilarious that Super Neptunia RPG confirms that Blanc likes big boobs. And apparently Noire copied Neptune's game console design, just changed the color.

The next morning...

Nepgear, wearing nothing but her panties, sat up in her bed, yawning and stretching. She had slept so soundly that she was still bleary-eyed. Rubbing her eyes of the stuff that had built up over-night, she looked to her side as she saw a bump under her blanket. Pulling it up, she felt a smile, or at least, an attempt at one, come to her face as she saw Jupiter, wearing pajamas, sleeping next to her, snoring softly.

Slipping out of bed quietly so she didn't wake her sister up, Nepgear tucked Jupiter back in. "Nngh, sis?" Jupiter opened her eyes to look at her sleepily. "What..?"

Nepgear shook her head. "Just get some more sleep, okay?" Jupiter nodded and closed her eyes, sighing happily when Nepgear gently rubbed her head.

After sitting like that for a couple of minutes, Nepgear got up and got dressed. Looking at her younger sister one last time, she left the room. Walking down the hallway, she eventually met Histoire, who was fully dressed and awake. "Good morning, Nepgear. You must have been really tired. You're up two hours later than usual."

Nepgear had a soft look on her face. "Histoire, I'll be in my office, catching up on the paperwork. Please let Jupiter sleep in, okay? And when she wakes up, please send her to me, I wish to talk to her later. Oh, is Neptune up yet?" Histoire shook her head. "Okay, let me know when she is. ...And, Histoire." Nepgear sighed softly. "I'd like to spend the day with Neptune and Jupiter when they get up, okay?"

Histoire nodded at that. "That's fine."

Nepgear had a troubled look on her face and nodded. "Histoire, I want to apologize to you." Histoire gave Nepgear a confused look. "For yesterday. I..." She took a deep breath. "You were right. I was hurting Jupiter's growth with how I was acting."

"Nepgear..." Histoire sighed softly. "I... I shouldn't have said that, I was just so upset. And... I have no room to speak, not after what I did to you."

Nepgear was silent for a moment. "You know, Histoire... If we keep trying to apologize to each other, I'll never get anything done." Histoire nodded at her. "And... I want to say one more thing..." Histoire tilted her head. "I'm a failure at so much in life, Histoire, will you give me another chance?"

Histoire smiled at Nepgear and floated forward, putting her hands on Nepgear's cheeks. "Only if you give me another chance. Nepgear, the two of us only know each other as associates, I'd like... I'd like to be friends with you."

Reaching a trembling hand up, Nepgear put it on Histoire's back and nodded. "Sure, I'd like a friend too. But I need to do some work now."

"Of course. I'll let you know when your sisters are awake." Histoire backed off and watched as Nepgear went into her office. Histoire smiled softly. 'So this is the real you, Nepgear? The one not bound by sadness, rage and hate?' Histoire suddenly stiffened in surprise as she felt something touch her from behind. Turning around, she stared in shock as she saw the smaller Neptune from the inter-dimensional call from yesterday smiling at her. Blinking and rubbing her eyes, she was confused as that Neptune was no longer there. 'What was that? Why did I see the small Neptune all of a sudden?'

(-)

It was almost an hour later when Jupiter, still wearing her pajamas, stumbled into Nepgear's office. "Hey sis... You wanted to see me?"

Nepgear nodded. "Yes, I'm almost done, go to the bathroom or whatever you need to do first and then pull up a seat here." She didn't look up and Jupiter was honestly surprised at how fast she was going through the paperwork.

"Sure..." Jupiter left the room and went to get dressed.

Twenty minutes later...

"I'm back." Jupiter said as she grabbed a chair and rolled it across the floor over to Nepgear's desk. "Wow, sis, you're on a roll today."

"Yeah." Nepgear nodded and looked at Jupiter as she sat down next to the desk. "Jupiter, I want to apologize." Jupiter had a confused look come to her face as she wondered what Nepgear was going on about. Nepgear, for her part, had a pensive look on her face. "Before I begin, please allow me to finish what I'm going to say, because I'm going to say a lot, and I don't want you to interrupt me every ten words."

"Okay..." Jupiter said softly. "What's wrong then?"

"I'm not a good big sister." Nepgear said to her, causing Jupiter's eyes to widen. "When you were born... I said to myself that you weren't Neptune, that I shouldn't treat you like you were Neptune." She sighed while Jupiter nodded. "I guess I took that to heart too much, because I kept treating you as not-Neptune... Instead of my little sister."

Jupiter was thunderstruck and wouldn't be able to speak even if Nepgear didn't ask her to not interrupt.

"And... Thinking back... Well, before that, when we were talking to Neptune yesterday, I saw you... You looked like you wanted to crawl away and cry." Jupiter jerked in surprise and Nepgear let out a soft sound of mild amusement. "You forget who your elder sister is, you're nowhere near as good at hiding your emotions as I am." She sighed again. "Seeing the other Neptunes... It was the happiest I've been in years. But..." A sorrowful look came to Nepgear's face. "Jupiter... I..." She took a shuddering breath. "Forgive me, my mind is going all over the place right now."

Jupiter nodded, she could wait. After all, Nepgear seemed almost lost at how to continue.

"I resented you." Nepgear said softly, causing Jupiter to stare in shock, her eyes starting to water in fear and sadness. "I tried to not treat you as Neptune, but everytime I saw you, I felt, at some level, that you were trying to take her away from me."

Jupiter sniffled and stood up. "I... I'm sorry, I'll..." Suddenly Nepgear grabbed her and pulled her into a tight hug.

"I'm not finished yet." Nepgear said softly. "After Neptune came yesterday and after talking to the other Neptune... And seeing you look like you wanted to cry, that's when I realized something important."

"...Sis..?" Jupiter was worried, was Nepgear going to say that she hated her?

"I miss my Neptune, I love her, nothing can change that. But..." Nepgear put her hands on Jupiter's shoulders and pulled her away gently to look her in the eyes. "You're my little sister, you aren't her replacement. You aren't trying to steal her away from me. You're an irreplaceable part of my life, Jupiter."

"S..Sis..." Jupiter's eyes were tearing up.

Nepgear's eyes were likewise starting to tear up. "I love you, Jupiter. Can you forgive your foolish failure of an elder sister for being so cruel to you?"

Jupiter nodded and hugged Nepgear, who hugged her back, tightly. "Yes. I'm sorry I made you feel like that."

"You did nothing wrong." Nepgear said softly. "I promise, right now... I'll spend more time with you, okay?"

Jupiter nodded, smiling as she cuddled against her sister.

Standing by the slightly open door outside of Nepgear's office, Neptune smiled happily. She wasn't too happy hearing what Nepgear thought about Jupiter, but it looked like her younger sisters were going to work through their problems on their own. 'This kind of reminds me of Tiny Me and her Nepgear working out their problems after the whole Kurome thing was done.' Kurome's brainwashing of the smaller Neptune had brought some uncomfortable truths forward, plus the two had other issues they had to work through on top of it, but in the end, they had gotten through it, the bond the two sisters had already been strong, but Neptune could swear that after talking out their problems that the bond between her other self and her younger sister was stronger than ever before. 'And it looks like my sisters in this world will be just fine.'

After waiting for a minute, Neptune opened the door to Nepgear's office. "Good morning!" She cheered loudly, causing both of her sisters to jump with a shriek. "Oh wow! Mercy! Mercy!" She giggled at the looks they gave her.

The annoyed looks disappeared as Jupiter laughed while Nepgear gave an amused snort at the long-haired Neptune, who grinned back at them happily.

(-)

Meanwhile...

"Iffy! Iffy!" Compa said as she watched her friend being pulled out of the vat, the tubes that had been at the bottom of IF's underwear popped off as soon as she came out of the vat. 'At least Iffy smells nice.'

"Nnngh..." IF groaned, feeling both refreshed and stiff as a board oddly enough. "Compa? How long was I, YEEK!" IF screamed in surprise as the pink haired nurse removed the bikini briefs from her waist, leaving her completely exposed before putting it in a plastic bag and into a bio-hazard waste basket.

"How many times have I told you, wait until we have them at the shower area?" The other nurse rolled her eyes. "Relax, Miss IF, we'll be wheeling you over to the shower area next."

"Easy for you to say." IF grumbled as she was lowered into a wheelchair and the top harness was removed, leaving her naked. Covering her chest and hunching over, IF glared at the nurses. "Can't I have a covering at least?"

"Why?" The pink haired nurse said as she got behind IF and pushed her down the ramp and onto the main floor area of the healing tanks. "You would need to take it off right now anyway." The nurse pushed open a door and IF saw the amount of shower heads on the wall. "These detach, I'll be using them to rinse your body off." Pushing IF to a stall, the pink-haired nurse helped IF up and out of her wheelchair and instructed her to hold onto the metal support bars on the side while she turned on the water and warmed it up.

"I don't like standing here naked." IF groused, at least her feet were on the ground, so she wasn't supporting her entire weight with her arms, before yelping as the nurse started spraying her with a powerful but warm spray of water, starting from her head from behind.

"You will be taken care of. If you are worried that I will do lewd things to you, please rest assured that while I am working, I am completely professional." The woman's voice was completely normal and somewhat dry.

IF gave her a weird look. "For some reason, I'm worried you'll stick that in my butt and give me a surprise enema or something."

"...Are you having trouble with your bowel movements? I can schedule an enema for you if that's the case."

IF shook her head. "No! I'm not constipated! Trust me on that." She just hoped that the nurse really was a professional and not a secret pervert.

"Very well, but if you are concerned, it can be done quickly and discreetly." The nurse answered as she sprayed down IF's back and across her butt-cheeks.

IF wasn't sure if she was thankful or not that the nurse didn't spend more time spraying her butt than she did. 'At least she's honest about being professional.' IF thought as the nurse grabbed her shoulder and told her to turn around.

After awkwardly turning around which thankfully didn't involve falling down as IF discovered that while her leg didn't hurt anymore, it was still rather weak and she almost toppled over. Thankfully the nurse had grabbed her by her arms to hold her up and help her turn around fully.

After IF's face was done being sprayed, the brown haired girl looked at her curiously. "Hey, how come you wear a metal plate on your forehead?"

"I like it." Was the reply. "Plus I was in an automobile accident and I have scars on my forehead." IF gave her a confused look. "While the vats can heal the damage to your body, it doesn't heal scars, as you can see if you look at your leg," IF looked down and saw that, yes, her leg was still a scarred mess of flesh, "you need to use the cosmetic vats for that, and I did not wish to waste time with that. The metal plate also keeps my hair out of my eyes."

IF had nothing to say to that.

After a minute more, the nurse turned the water off and pulled out a towel and started wiping IF off.

"I can towel myself off." IF was a bit irritated.

"Yes, but your leg muscles have weakened quite a bit." The nurse answered her. "You will be dressed and transported over to physical therapy."

IF let out an annoyed huff, but didn't protest anymore as her body was cleaned off. "That's fine, I can get them back to working order."

The nurse nodded at her. "That attitude is exactly what you need, Miss IF."

IF grinned as she was put into a wheelchair and wheeled out of the shower room. "If I didn't have this attitude, I would have given up awhile ago and... HEY! You can't wheel me into the hallway naked!"

"Do not worry." The nurse said. "The clothes are kept down the hallway."

"That's not the problem!" IF screamed in annoyance.

Watching them go down the hallway, Compa turned to the doctor. "Shouldn't we have Iffy get dressed in the shower room?"

"Yes, why do you..." The doctor turned to see who was carting IF to the clothes room. "...Oh dear, she tends to do this a lot. I'm not sure if she's doing it to tease cute patients or if she's doing it because she's that clueless."

Compa sweat-dropped heavily. She wasn't in any position to speak, she had done similar things when she was in-training to become a nurse after all.

(-)

In Lastation...

"We'll be heading home then." White Heart said to Noire. Vert had already left, stating she had a lot of work to catch up on. "Noire, thank you, for calming me down."

Noire waved her off. "Don't worry about it. At least we know who hacked into your amusement park now, huh?"

White Heart nodded, she couldn't believe that her security had been so vulnerable that an idiot could use their cellphone to cause the attractions to try and kill the patrons. At least the idiot that had been responsible for this was already in custody in Leanbox, which was part of the reason why Vert had taken off back to Leanbox.

After White Heart and her two sisters left, Noire looked at Uni, who was fidgeting in place. "...What's wrong?"

"...What will I say if I get to see Jupiter again?" Uni asked her. "I know she's a CPU Candidate, I know she kept it a secret from me, I know why she did it, but..."

Noire gave Uni a look of understanding. "If you want my advice, I'd say just be how you were around her in Leanbox." Uni looked at Noire, an unreadable expression on her face. "We're going to try and fix things with Nepgear, Uni. At the very least, even if Nepgear refuses us, maybe she'll allow her sister to come see you, Rom and Ram."

"But..." Uni trailed off as Noire gave her a wry smirk. "Um, sis?"

"If you're that worried about stuff, why don't you do some work and get your mind off of it for now and let your big sister worry about the meeting in a week, okay?"

Uni nodded at Noire. "Sure, thanks."

Noire just smiled at her. "Now then, we're behind on paperwork. Having to do both yours and mine set me back pretty far, so you better bust your butt and help me get caught up."

"Of course!" Uni smiled back. Sure, paperwork wasn't always fun, but at least it kept them busy.

(-)

Somewhere in Leanbox...

"I tell you, I don't know any of that!" Abnes, who was tied to a chair, yelled at Mister Chief, a member of the OG division who wore a camouflage-colored body suit and helmet with a visor on it, who merely looked at her through his visor and shook his head. "I can't hack an amusement park with my phone!"

Mister Chief held up a sign explaining things to Abnes, who turned red at that.

"I don't know how to do that! I don't know HOW you bozos figure that I was the one who made that amusement park go crazy! There wasn't any Anti-CPU members at that amusement park!" The blonde paled as Cave walked in, her large pair of scissors in her hands. "Wh-wh-wha-what are you going to do?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about." Cave answered and put her scissors down near the door. "Lady Green Heart will return soon, and she already knows that Abnes here is the reason that Lady White Heart's amusement park went crazy."

"Like I already told this guy! I didn't do it!" Abnes screeched in anger while she shook on the chair while trying to kick her legs and failing.

Cave and Mister Chief both gave her an unamused look. Well, Cave did, it was hard to tell with Mister Chief as no one could see his face. "So you're telling us that not only are we wrong, but so are Lastation IT engineers who had access to all information about what happened from Lowee and they discovered that the signal not only originated from a phone in Leanbox, but the MEID number matches your cell phone perfectly?"

"Yes! Because I didn't do it!"

Mister Chief held up a sign and Cave read it before nodding. "Indeed, are you saying there's a hacker out there so skilled that they can not only hack into Lowee's systems, but also make it look like your phone is the source of the hack and not them?"

"That has to be it!" Abnes yelled, her eyes white and blank. "Someone had to do just that!"

Mister Chief held a sign laced with profanities and Cave nodded in agreement.

"I didn't do anything!" Abnes yelled in anger.

"You know..." Cave began. "If you don't admit to what you did by the time Lady Green Heart gets back, I can't guarantee anything." Abnes's eyes widened and she started to tremble. "I believe I heard some Anti-CPU propaganda saying that if you anger a goddess that she'll slowly peel your skin off of your flesh while you're naked and then cut your organs out, one by one, while keeping you alive before finally ending your life."

Abnes trembled before slumping, her eyes rolling into the back of her head and her mouth starting to foam.

"Huh, she passed out pretty easily." Cave gave no indication whether or not she was pleased by that or not.

Mister Chief held up a sign.

"No, Lady Green Heart would not do any of those things. But the Anti-CPU members aren't the smartest pair of scissors in the tool shed after all." Cave gave him a small grin and Mister Chief nodded at her.

"Still..." Cave trailed off. "What she says may have merit. If there is a hacker that skilled, we can't completely discount it." She crossed her arms under her boobs while tapping one with her left finger while cupping her chin with her right hand.

Mister Chief held up a sign and Cave nodded. "True." She unfolded her arms. "It's so unlikely that I shouldn't worry about it. If such a person did exist, they would be a grave threat to everything."

Still, she couldn't help but worry for some reason.

(-)

Meanwhile...

Anonydeath sighed heavily as he worked on hacking through the encryption on the computer from the Order that was holed up in Lastation. He had been so busy since talking to Jupiter over the phone that he hadn't even been paying attention to any on-goings in the other countries, figuring that he'd just do a marathon watch at five times the speed and run any interesting tidbits back at normal speed. Leaning back, he groaned in dismay. "The things I do for you, Honey." He shook his head. He could have easily used his automated program to get through the encryption, but recently he had felt the urge to work harder and figure out who Miss R really was.

"No, that's not true, is it?" Anonydeath asked himself rhetorically. "It's because Honey's cute little sister had that monster transportation disk." It had bothered him tremendously when he first saw it, especially after he discovered Planeptune tech had been used to make it, but that wasn't the only reason he had been worried.

It wasn't until he did some searching on the web about monster transportation disks that he finally remembered why.

"The Arfoire Incident, strange that I would forget." Anonydeath shook his head. Then again, it was over ten years ago and he had been a young teenager who lived in Lastation when it happened. Black Heart had saved him when a monster disk was used to have monsters over-run his small town in her nation and he had been instantly attracted to her strength, her confidence and, of course, her looks.

While no official sources knew why those disks worked at all, Anonydeath had dug into Lastation, Leanbox and Lowee's information systems and the history that was both contained and classified within and had discovered something that made him even more worried and made him more anxious to discover who Miss R really was.

"If these monster transportation disks are like the previous ones, only someone who has the power of a Goddess can make them, but they only work so long as that Goddess is still alive." Anonydeath said softly. Behind his face-plate, his eyes widened as he finally got through the encryption and got access to the information held within. "About time you opened up, you naughty thing. Now..." His normally feminine-like voice became almost sinister. "Tell me your secrets."

He really hoped that he was wrong. He'd find out if the computer had any stored emails with IP addresses on them. "This would be so much easier if I had the computers on hand." Anonydeath muttered in annoyance.

(-)

After getting back to Lowee and landing on the balcony at the Basilicom, White Heart and her sisters reverted to their human forms. Opening the balcony to the living quarters, they were instantly greeted. "Blanny! Rommy! Rammy!" C-Sha, in her usual attire, waved and ran up to them, hugging Blanc tightly, causing the short CPU to turn scarlet as her face was pressed into C-Sha's breasts.

"H, hey! Not in public, dummy!" Blanc protested, though she didn't fight too hard, C-Sha's breasts were rather relaxing.

"But sis, we're not in public." Ram grinned at Blanc.

Rom tugged on C-Sha's outfit, causing the girl to let Blanc go. "Miss C-Sha... Do you wanna marry Blanc?"

Both C-Sha and Blanc went stiff at that. "Well..." C-Sha's face was a bit red as she thought about it for a few moments. "I certainly wouldn't mind it if Blanny wanted to get married."

Blanc was about to answer when an image flashed through her head and her expression soured. "You wouldn't want to marry a monster like me. Excuse me." She turned and quickly walked out, leaving C-Sha, Rom and Ram looking at her in confusion.

C-Sha looked at where Blanc had been with worry, she had seen tears escaping Blanc's eyes as she turned to walk away. "Blanny..."

"What's wrong?" Ram asked, her face showing confusion.

C-Sha shook her head. "I'm not sure. Maybe Blanny's just tired. I'll talk to her later, okay?"

The twins nodded, clearly worried about their sister.

(-)

Blanc entered her room and slammed the door behind her. Leaning against it, she slid down until she was sitting on her butt while pulling her knees up to her face. "I don't deserve C-Sha... Why does she love me? I'm just a monster."

Images of that fateful battle against Purple Heart flashed through her mind. 'Why? Why did I allow myself to be manipulated?' Blanc thought to herself. 'And... Why did I enjoy it so fucking much?!' She knew that neither Noire nor Vert had looked like they truly enjoyed it while they were beating on and killing Purple Heart.

But Blanc knew that she did, that she had enjoyed it at the time.

Tearing up, Blanc buried her face into her knees and sobbed. "Purple Heart, Neptune... Nepgear... I'm so, so sorry..."

Blanc didn't know how long she had been there when the door opened behind her. She didn't react as C-Sha slipped into the room and closed the door behind her. She didn't react when C-Sha sat down next to her and put her hand on Blanc's legs. "Blanny..." There was no response. "Blanny..." C-Sha put her hand on Blanc's shoulder and gave her a shake.

Blanc lifted her head and looked at C-Sha. The CPU looked absolutely miserable and C-Sha instantly understood why. Grabbing Blanc, she pulled the CPU against her chest and held her. "C-Sha... Why...?"

"It's okay, Blanny." C-Sha held the small CPU. "You're not a monster."

"Yes I am." Blanc muttered before C-Sha shifted and cupped her chin to make her look up. "C-Sha?"

C-Sha gave Blanc a gentle, but chaste, kiss on the lips, causing the CPU to turn scarlet in response. "Heh..." C-Sha had an amused look on her face. "Even after all this time, after all the years we've known each other, you still react like it's the first kiss between us, Blanny."

"...Why do you love me?" Blanc asked, her face slowly returning to normal.

C-Sha shrugged at her. "I just do. But if you were a monster, Blanny, I wouldn't kiss you, I wouldn't love you, and I wouldn't love your sisters like they were mine."

Blanc's face turned a bit red as she planted her face into C-Sha's breasts. "Don't leave me, please?"

"Of course." C-Sha said and rubbed Blanc's back as she hugged her. The two sat like that for a couple of minutes before C-Sha spoke up again. "Your sisters are worried about you."

"Where are they?" Blanc asked as she nuzzled C-Sha and tried to relax.

"Playing games right now." C-Sha smiled as Blanc pulled her head up to look C-Sha in the face. "Come on, let's go play with them."

Blanc nodded as C-Sha got up and helped her up to her feet so they could go see what Rom and Ram were doing together. As she walked next to C-Sha, Blanc looked up at the taller woman. "...C-Sha..."

"Yes?" The hunter smiled at the CPU, "what is it, Blanny?"

"Thank you." Blanc looked ahead, a small smile on her face. "I don't know why you put up with me, but I'm glad you do."

"That's because I love you, Blanny." C-Sha grinned as Blanc turned red.

Blanc wondered how she could make it up to C-Sha later. Her mind came up with a few ideas before she shook her head to clear them away. 'C-Sha's too good for me.'

(-)

Standing on top of one of Planeptune's taller skyscrapers, a woman wearing a black pantsuit who had blue eyes and light blue hair giggled a high pitched laugh. "Gee hee hee hee. Should we do it now?" Her face was full of eagerness as she grinned while looking to the South at the Basilicom. Turning to her left, she revealed that her left side had dark blue, almost black, hair while her left eye was a different color.

"No, not yet." A voice that was quite a bit deeper, though still easily female, spoke up. "Trust me, we both waited this long, what's a few more days?"

The woman grinned savagely and turned to her right and laughed her high pitched laugh. "Gee hee hee! True! We both waited for centuries for our revenge on Gamindustri." She held up her hands as a black aura surrounded her while she disappeared.

"Soon." Both voices said at the same time.

Mister Chief is from the Neptunia manga where Vert gets kidnapped and Cave tries to rescue her. It's also where the OG division is mentioned.

As for Big Nep's comments about "uncomfortable truths", well, even if Nepgear wouldn't think anything of it, I'm sure Neptune was feeling really guilty by what she said/did while under Kurome's brainwashing and wanted to talk to her sister about it. At some level, Neptune probably thought those things (probably why she was so mean to Nepgear in Victory), but buried it because she did love her sister (seriously, other than Victory, Neptune and Nepgear are super close!).

As for Nepgear's mind being a bit scattered, well... Her emotional barriers that she had up for years are utterly shattered at this point in time, her emotions are flowing freely and rapidly right now.

"It's time for Nepstation with your hosts Rom..."

"...And Ram! Boy, Rom! Your angry face was awesome in the last chapter!"

"Well, I learned it from big sis."

"That was so cool! That must be why your hair turns blue in HDD then!"

"Maybe, I wonder if you'll take after Blanc too somehow?"

"Maybe I'll start swearing a lot!"

"Oh my, if you do that, I'll have to put your over my lap, bare your bottom and give you a spanking."

"Oh! It's Miss Vert."

"I wasn't going to swear! I promise!"

"Well, that's good. Hmm, a note from the author. "This is the end of the Healing Arc, up next, Showdown Arc". Hmm, I wonder what kind of showdown we'll have."

"Miss Vert, I hope it's not like one of your naughty games."

"Yeah, who wants to see a bunch of naked boys anyway?"

"...Ram, why is Miss Vert blushing and giggling?"

"I don't know. Oh! We're out of time! This is Ram..."

"...And Rom..."

"...And Vert, who's squirming at the thought of so many cute boys in skimpy outfits around me, signing off."

"Miss Vert is weird."

"Yeah!"

"You'll understand when you get older."