p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The following Saturday Luna, Astrid, the twins, and I took the train to the town near the bomb range, and let me tell ya, getting a unicorn on a train that was an adventure in itself!/span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" First, we needed to get Luna to the train station, Astrid didn't seem to care about the stares we got as she rode Luna there, I, on the other hand, was a bit put off by the stares. Once we got to the station we needed to figure out whether or not she needed a ticket. We, and by we I mean Astrid, came up with the idea of pretending that she's a giant stuffed animal-like like Criss did in /spanem style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Sonic X/emspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" or the DigiDestineds' did in multiple the incarnations of /spanem style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Digimon/emspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true". After a very quick debate, we decided that that was the best way to go./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"So there we were standing on the platform waiting for the train to arrive, the four humanoids were pretending to hold up Luna, since we had the twins it didn't seem too out of place for us to have a giant stuffed animal, I still felt a little self-conscious about it. But that was fine, everything was going to be fine, just fine./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The hardest part was getting Luna on the train. We walked with her to the train looking like we were dragging her feet while she was slowly making small steps. /spanem style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"This is so humiliating /emspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Luna expressed as we walked her to the train, with the four of us /spanem style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"holding /emspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"her up. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"But the hardest hardest part was the gap between the platform and the train. That required a lot of small but precise movements and weight shifting on Luna's part correcting with our movements. It felt like a classic mess, that drew a few glances, but luckily the train was pretty empty the humanoids were able to find seats next to each other and had Luna stand directly in front of us with us /spanem style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"holding her upright./em/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Once we reached our stop we did the whole skit all over again, I was not pleased by the fact that we'd have to do this relatively frequently. Once we got out of the station Astrid decided that Luna could be a moving being, not I might add by telling us but by in one swift movement jumping on top of her and shouting "ONWARDS MY NOBLE STEED." /span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Why do you do this to me… /emspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" Luna projected to us, while slowly shaking her head./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"After the walk, or in Astrid's case ride, to the bomb range, we stood at that open wasteland away from everything. "This should do nicely," I stated./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"We spent a lot of time messing around with spells, seeing if there was a limit to how many spells we could do: there was. And the conjoined spells from the twins seemed to count more than one spell but less than two spells. We found out that there was a way to control the intensity of the spells. We also found that I could cast more spells then Astrid could wich she said was unfair./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Those realizations took place after a few weeks of spending most of our weekends there, and of course, with lots of trial and error. But it was fun, sometimes frustrating, but usually fun. We all bonded a lot in that wasteland. Everyone seemed to be getting over their trust issues, and we all grew very close, and I started to develop feeling for her but I was afraid to act on them for multiple reasons, one: I'm socially awkward and was never in a relationship before, and two I was afraid that if she knew my feelings she wouldn't want to be my friend anymore./span/p
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p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Another thing we started doing after about three weeks of experimenting of shooting spells, seeing how strong we could make them, then and how many we could do before we were so drained we could bearly move, slowly gaining more endurance, we referred to that as our SP level, like in video games. We also experimented with the spells like how far away we can be for a spell to work, the answer is about 9-10 yards but the further away they were the more energy it took to use the spells. We also tried how quietly we could cast the spells and having them still work, that didn't work out that well, we still had to use a loud voice for the spell to work with any intensity. Along with the spell training, we trained our bodies by sparing with the moves we learned at our MMA classes. All and all we were having a good time. Eventually, we would have full-on magical demon sparing matchings(I'll get to that later)./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The twins and I also came up with strategies and attack maneuvers, ways to maximize the advantage of having two demons with opposing powers. Astrid did not much for strategizing, no matter how much her Luna or I insisted, but that's Astrid for you!/span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" First, we needed to get Luna to the train station, Astrid didn't seem to care about the stares we got as she rode Luna there, I, on the other hand, was a bit put off by the stares. Once we got to the station we needed to figure out whether or not she needed a ticket. We, and by we I mean Astrid, came up with the idea of pretending that she's a giant stuffed animal-like like Criss did in /spanem style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Sonic X/emspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" or the DigiDestineds' did in multiple the incarnations of /spanem style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Digimon/emspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true". After a very quick debate, we decided that that was the best way to go./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"So there we were standing on the platform waiting for the train to arrive, the four humanoids were pretending to hold up Luna, since we had the twins it didn't seem too out of place for us to have a giant stuffed animal, I still felt a little self-conscious about it. But that was fine, everything was going to be fine, just fine./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The hardest part was getting Luna on the train. We walked with her to the train looking like we were dragging her feet while she was slowly making small steps. /spanem style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"This is so humiliating /emspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Luna expressed as we walked her to the train, with the four of us /spanem style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"holding /emspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"her up. /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"But the hardest hardest part was the gap between the platform and the train. That required a lot of small but precise movements and weight shifting on Luna's part correcting with our movements. It felt like a classic mess, that drew a few glances, but luckily the train was pretty empty the humanoids were able to find seats next to each other and had Luna stand directly in front of us with us /spanem style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"holding her upright./em/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Once we reached our stop we did the whole skit all over again, I was not pleased by the fact that we'd have to do this relatively frequently. Once we got out of the station Astrid decided that Luna could be a moving being, not I might add by telling us but by in one swift movement jumping on top of her and shouting "ONWARDS MY NOBLE STEED." /span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"em style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"Why do you do this to me… /emspan style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true" Luna projected to us, while slowly shaking her head./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"After the walk, or in Astrid's case ride, to the bomb range, we stood at that open wasteland away from everything. "This should do nicely," I stated./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"We spent a lot of time messing around with spells, seeing if there was a limit to how many spells we could do: there was. And the conjoined spells from the twins seemed to count more than one spell but less than two spells. We found out that there was a way to control the intensity of the spells. We also found that I could cast more spells then Astrid could wich she said was unfair./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Those realizations took place after a few weeks of spending most of our weekends there, and of course, with lots of trial and error. But it was fun, sometimes frustrating, but usually fun. We all bonded a lot in that wasteland. Everyone seemed to be getting over their trust issues, and we all grew very close, and I started to develop feeling for her but I was afraid to act on them for multiple reasons, one: I'm socially awkward and was never in a relationship before, and two I was afraid that if she knew my feelings she wouldn't want to be my friend anymore./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"Another thing we started doing after about three weeks of experimenting of shooting spells, seeing how strong we could make them, then and how many we could do before we were so drained we could bearly move, slowly gaining more endurance, we referred to that as our SP level, like in video games. We also experimented with the spells like how far away we can be for a spell to work, the answer is about 9-10 yards but the further away they were the more energy it took to use the spells. We also tried how quietly we could cast the spells and having them still work, that didn't work out that well, we still had to use a loud voice for the spell to work with any intensity. Along with the spell training, we trained our bodies by sparing with the moves we learned at our MMA classes. All and all we were having a good time. Eventually, we would have full-on magical demon sparing matchings(I'll get to that later)./span/p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" /p
p style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-preserver-spaces="true"The twins and I also came up with strategies and attack maneuvers, ways to maximize the advantage of having two demons with opposing powers. Astrid did not much for strategizing, no matter how much her Luna or I insisted, but that's Astrid for you!/span/p