A/N: I present to you Chapter 3 of Path of Discovery. :D The first completely new chapter for this story that I've posted in quite some time! I'm so excited~
And it's the chapter we've all been waiting for: actual canon characters (other than Igor) appearing in the story! Yay! Enjoy, and review once you're done reading, please!
She opened her eyes slowly, like someone waking up too early from a deep sleep. Her vision was blurred. She closed her eyes again, intending to drift back to sleep. She was so, so tired...
"You do not have time to rest, I'm afraid," a familiar voice said. "And I cannot keep you here much longer. There is work to be done."
She bolted upright, and saw Igor.
"Ah," he said with a smile. "You are awake."
"What…?" She looked around, and saw Shun on the ground beside her, unconscious but seemingly unharmed. Memories of the recent battle came flashing back and she frantically reached over and patted Shun's chest, checking for the injuries she'd been so sure he had.
"He is fine," Igor assured her.
"But…" she frowned. "He was injured. We both were. I…" She looked at her elbow reflexively, and then gasped.
The injury was gone. Twisting around to get a glimpse of her shoulders and back, she saw that those wounds had disappeared as well. "But...how?"
"You have awoken a new Persona," Igor informed her. "Normally those with the Potential only possess one Persona at a time. There are also those rare few with the Wild Card ability, who can possess many. You are somewhere in between."
"I have…a second Persona?"
He nodded. "Titania. It was with her powers that you healed yourself and your companion." He looked at Shun. "He is a Persona user as well. Good day to you," Igor added as Shun opened his eyes drowsily. "I am glad that you are finally awake."
Shun sat up suddenly, looking alarmed.
"It's alright," Riko assured him. "We're safe here. This is Igor," she added, pointing to the 'man' in question.
"Welcome to the Velvet Room," Igor said, bowing.
"Uh…thanks," Shun said, still looking suspicious.
Igor smiled, and then turned to Riko, his expression becoming serious. "I must send you on ahead, Miss Riko. You shall arrive at the current location of Ulala Serizawa. I must explain the current situation to your friend, and it will take a little time. As you know, time is of the essence in this matter."
She nodded, and stood. "I understand."
"Wait, hold on a second." Shun stood up. "You're leaving me here? Alone? With him?"
"He won't hurt you," Riko promised. "He's just going to explain what's going on. I'd do it myself, but Igor's way better at that sort of thing. Besides, I need to meet with Serizawa-san as soon as possible. "
"And, what? He can just…send you to where she is?"
She nodded. "The Velvet Room is a sort of limbo place. It's hard to explain, but in our case, Igor can cause doors to manifest where we need them. It allows us to enter the Velvet Room when we need it, and exit to somewhere else if we need to be there."
He shook his head. "This is all a bit much…" His facial expression indicated that he was stuck somewhere between shock and disbelief, with a hefty dose of extreme confusion thrown in.
"Igor will explain it properly," she said, feeling guilty for dragging him into this mess and ditching him almost immediately. "I'll see you again later, I promise, but for now I really need to go. There's no time to waste." She turned to Igor. "Right?"
He nodded. "Yes." He waved his hand, and a blue door appeared a short distance away. "If you would."
She walked forward and opened the door. She couldn't see the other side, just a bright light. She stepped through anyway.
And out onto a sidewalk in a place she didn't recognize.
She looked around. Yep. No clue where I am. She sighed and started walking. Maybe she could find a payphone or something; she'd forgotten her cell phone at home, having been too distracted this morning to remember to pick it up on her way out.
She hadn't gone more than ten steps when she crashed into another person, knocking them both over.
"Hey! Watch where you're going, dammit!" The other woman glared at her from underneath bright red-pink hair.
"S-sorry," Riko managed, still catching her breath.
"Hmph." The woman stood up. "You should watch where you're walking."
"I'm sorry, I…" Riko stared up at the woman. No. It couldn't be...Could it? "Serizawa-san?"
The woman blinked. "Have we met?"
Riko shook her head, standing. "No, we haven't. But I've been looking for you."
Ulala tilted her head. "You're the one?"
Riko blinked, momentarily baffled. "One what?"
"Bao and I got wind of someone investigating me the other day, but we couldn't find out who. It was you?"
Riko took a step back, suddenly wary. She had not expected to...be expected. That someone on the list might know she was coming before she found them had honestly never occurred to her. "Sort of. Look, can we talk somewhere private?"
Ulala snorted. "No way. I don't know who the hell you are; you look like a nice enough kid, but I'm not going anywhere alone with you."
"Ulala," a man's voice called.
The woman turned to look over her shoulder, and Riko saw a well-dressed man with long dark hair and round tinted glasses.
"Something wrong?" the man asked.
"Found the person who was investigating me," Ulala answered.
The man turned towards her. "This kid? You're not serious."
Ulala shrugged. "She said she's been looking for me. Oh, this is my partner," she added to Riko.
"Baofu," the man said.
Riko blinked, surprised. "You're Baofu?" Well, that took care of one more name on her list.
"You know me?"
"Uh….no." This is getting awkward.
Ulala and Baofu exchanged a look.
"Who exactly are you, kid?" Baofu asked.
Riko crossed her arms, trying and failing to not look or feel defensive. "Do you know someone called Tatsuya?"
The two exchanged another look, this one more serious. "Do you?"
"Not yet. But I need to find him."
"Why?" Ulala asked, taking a step towards her. "Who are you to him?"
Riko just glared at the two of them, feeling cornered and not liking it. "Can you tell me where he is or can't you? I'm in a hurry."
"Sure thing," Ulala said easily. "Just tell us who the hell you are and why you need to find him."
Riko turned her back on them and started walking away. Which was unbelievably stupid and she knew it. She'd been agonizing over how to find these people, had nearly died getting here, had nearly gotten Shun killed in the process, and now she was going in the opposite direction. But she was feeling all sorts of off-kilter today, and an escalating confrontation with two complete strangers was not something she was terribly keen on, no matter how important they were to Igor.
Besides, she and Shun could always track them down again later, right? And surely it wouldn't be too hard, since they'd already found them, or at least Serizawa, once.
If she could just get some distance for now, catch her breath after that battle she and Shun had been in, get a little time to get her head on straight...
"Hold on a minute!" Baofu grabbed her arm. "You don't get to just take off like that. Explain yourself."
Her sudden anxiety spiked into something sharp and painful, an explosion of emotion in her chest, which in turn triggered the fight-or-flight response every living creature has. "Let go!" She yanked her arm away and then ran off down the street before either one of them could grab her again.
She hated being manhandled like that, by anyone. Didn't like to be touched at all anymore, really, despite having been something of a hugger once upon a time. Of course, once upon a time she would have likely leaned toward the 'fight' response to such a situation, rather than 'flight'. But she'd been down that road before a year ago, and it had brought her nothing but pain. And she'd learned her lesson: sometimes fighting brought nothing but disaster and tragedy. So she'd fight if she had to, and certainly wouldn't back down if it mattered, but if given the option of fleeing instead? She'd take it, hands down, no contest.
That being said...running off clearly was not the best idea she'd ever had, something that became glaringly obvious once she stopped for breath several blocks away. Not only was she supposed to be explaining the situation to those people, she was in the middle of a district she didn't know. She also had no idea where she was relative to where Igor had dropped her off, meaning even if he'd left the door behind for her, she couldn't get back because she didn't know where it was. I'm such an idiot. And so, so screwed.
She looked around, and by some stroke of luck saw a motel across the street. She quickly crossed the street and checked into a room for the night, managing to cover the fee with what money she had left in her wallet. Hopefully, she'd be able to either find those two again tomorrow, or at least find her way back to a part of the city she was more familiar with and start over again from there.
She flopped down onto the bed and stared up at the ceiling, exhausted but unable to fall asleep. I wonder where Shun is…
He hadn't appeared during her confrontation with Ulala and Baofu; she hadn't seen him since the Velvet Room. Either Igor's explanation was taking a really long time or something else had happened. Maybe Igor sent him to look for someone else on the list? But…that wasn't right. Igor had said that he was 'sending her ahead'. Which implied that he'd be sending Shun after her. So where was he? It bothered her that he wasn't here with her, though she knew it shouldn't have mattered so much; she'd just met the guy, for cryin' out loud.
Still, she missed him.
She turned on her side and stared at the blank TV screen. Feeling suffocated by the oppressive silence in the room, she grabbed the remote from the nightstand and turned it on to the local news.
She fell asleep listening to the weather forecast for next day.
Shun exited the door and ended up (according to Igor) exactly where Riko had emerged. Riko, however, was nowhere to be seen, and neither was their target, Ulala Serizawa. Was Igor mistaken? Did he send me to the wrong place?
He stood there for several minutes, but neither one came by. Eventually he gave up on waiting and started asking people if they'd seen Riko. Logically, he knew that asking if anyone had seen the Serizwa woman would be easier; with her outlandish appearance, she'd be much more memorable to an average person compared to Riko, who at first glance seemed to be just an average young woman. But he and logic weren't really on solid terms at the moment, and his priority was Riko. She'd said herself that this wasn't a part of the city she was familiar with; a young woman alone in a strange place was not something to be taken lightly.
So he badgered every other person he could get to listen, trying to figure out where Riko had gone.
"Excuse me, I was wondering if you could help me? My friend and I were separated, and I think she may be lost. Have you seen her? She's around 5' 5", with really short black hair and green eyes; she was wearing a black hooded jacket and jeans."
He was told 'I'm sorry, I haven't seen her' more times than he could count.
He stood in the middle of the sidewalk alone, feeling extremely lost and afraid, though the fear wasn't for himself. Where is she?
Riko woke up the next morning as the bedside alarm clock starting blaring a pop song. She rolled over and smacked the off button. The clock read 8:00. She sat up, running a hand through her short hair.
I need to find Serizawa-san, she realized. She felt a wave of dread wash over her; it was very likely that a second meeting would go no better than the first. Nevertheless, she had an obligation to fulfill her assigned task. She stood up and checked over her appearance in the large vanity mirror on the wall. She'd taken her hoodie off, but otherwise had slept with all her clothes on. What choice had she had, really? It wasn't like she walked around carrying her pajamas. She hadn't exactly planned on spending the night in a motel.
She tugged her t-shirt straight and moved to grab her jacket off the dresser when someone knocked on her motel room door. She froze. Who could it be? No one knew she was here, not even Shun, and this motel didn't have a maid service. Could Shun have tracked her down? He was one of the best investigators in the city; she supposed it wouldn't be too hard for him to find her if he really wanted.
A little warning bell went off in her head, but she was too eager to see a familiar face to pay the apprehensive feeling as much attention as she should have.
"Coming," she called, shrugging on her jacket and going over to open the door.
It swung open to reveal Baofu, Ulala, and a third man she didn't recognize who was wearing a dress shirt and a tie, as well as rectangular tinted glasses. Ah. Crap. She took a step back, already not liking how this day was going.
"Hi there," Ulala said, "Remember us?"
Riko crossed her arms. "Yeah. How'd you find me?"
Baofu snorted. "We find people for a living, kid."
"It wasn't hard," Ulala said. "We just asked around a bit. It helps when you're friends with a cop," she added, pointing to the man with the tie.
"Cop?" she repeated. Double crap.
"Detective Suou," the man in question replied. "And you're…Riko Yukimura, correct? That's what the motel roster says, at any rate. You have a record," he added.
Detective Suou? 'Suou' as in Katsuya? Well, her list-people were just popping out of nowhere now. And since he was a cop, a detective on top of that, he'd had the access to pull her record. Which he'd apparently done. This just keeps on gets getting better and better, she thought sarcastically. "What of it?" she demanded.
"Yukimura, Riko," Katsuya said, pulling out a manila folder. "Was an informant against gang activity approximately one year ago. Later implicated to have actually been working with the gang at some point. Details were never found, and the case was dropped, although the situation was used as the grounds for a restraining order against you by the Hamasaki family. According to your academic records, you were an exemplary student until about a month or two before this incident, at which point your grades began to drop. You stopped attending school after the incident, and never finished out your studies." He closed the folder and looked at her. "And that's just the overview. Quite an interesting record for someone who's only nineteen."
She reached out and grabbed the folder from him.
"Hey!" Ulala reached for her wrist but Riko took another step back and tossed the folder over her shoulder. It landed on the floor, several pieces of paper sliding out.
"My record is irrelevant," she said, trying to keep her tone of voice even and unemotional.
Baofu shook his head. "Not to us it isn't. You came looking for one of us and we had no idea who you were."
"So we did some digging," Ulala said cheerfully, then looked serious again. "Now, tell us, what do you want with me?"
Riko looked at the three people in front of her, feeling decidedly boxed in and trapped. She hated feeling trapped. It went hand in hand with being grabbed on her list of 'Things Most Disliked'. She resisted the urge to take another step back and instead shoved past them and out into the parking lot.
"Hold on a minute!" Baofu grabbed her wrist. "We're not done here."
She barely suppressed the urge to kick him, and worked to keep her voice calm. "Can you let go of my arm, please?" she asked, trying to be civil. She would have already kicked him, but the fact remained that she couldn't afford to run away from these people a second time; Igor wanted them brought in, and he'd given her the job of bringing them, whether she liked it or not.
"Not until you explain yourself."
"Get your hands off of her!" a new voice shouted.
Riko turned her head to see Shun approaching them, looking angry.
"Get away from her," Shun repeated, coming up beside Riko and tugging Baofu's hand away. "She doesn't like being touched."
Riko marveled at Shun's observational skills. She'd only known him for two days, and he'd already picked up on one of her...quirks. It was all the more impressive since it wasn't a trait she'd really displayed much during the times they'd been together; in fact, the only examples she could think of for him to be basing his assumptions on were when he'd offered her a hand up onto the bus coming here (which she'd refused), and when she'd expressed a general dislike for the excessively cramped quarters on said bus after a standing passenger had lost his grip on the overhead railing and had toppled into her. She only had a moment to look at him admiringly though, because the next thing that happened was time freezing.
Curiously, the three older adults didn't seem to notice. They also didn't freeze.
"Are you going to tell us who you people are or not?" Ulala demanded, seemingly oblivious to the stillness.
"Uh…" Shun glanced at Riko. "Is this normal? I thought pretty much everyone is frozen during these things."
Riko bit her lip. "I guess they're like us?" She shrugged. "But they seem kind of useless," she added, smirking.
Ulala grabbed her by the collar. "Care to repeat that?!"
"Let her go!" Shun lunged forward to help Riko, but she waved him off. She disliked the manhandling, but an imminent battle with Shadows ranked higher than her (admittedly massive) personal space issues.
"We've got bigger problems," she told the three adults (for whatever reason, she couldn't seem to think of herself or Shun as 'adults'; maybe it was because she didn't consider herself to be one, and Shun just didn't give off the grown-up vibe, especially dressed in his loose turtleneck and jeans). "They're coming."
Ulala frowned, confused, and released her. "Who's coming?"
"Shadows." Riko heard a slithering sound somewhere in the parking lot, amongst the cars.
"What are Shadows?" Katsuya asked.
"That's sort of a long story," Riko glanced at Shun, not entirely sure how he was feeling about all of this. "You ready?"
"Yeah." He shot another look at the other three. "What about them?"
She shrugged. "What about 'em? We were supposed to find them, we found them. Once this battle's over we can explain and ask them where Tatsuya is."
"That's another thing," Katsuya said suddenly, somehow looking even more intense than he had a moment before. "Why are you looking for my brother?"
She blinked. Well, that's unexpected. "Your brother?"
"Tatsuya is my younger brother."
She looked over at Shun and he shrugged. "I didn't know," he told her. "I only had the information on Serizawa."
"Igor didn't mention it either…" She frowned. She was going to have a little chat with Igor next time she saw him, one involving her fist meeting his freakishly long nose. She was noticing a pattern of withheld information on his part, and she was not liking it at all.
"Igor?" Ulala repeated. "How do you know Igor?"
"You've been to the Velvet Room?" Baofu added.
Riko rolled her eyes. "And suddenly they're interested."
Katsuya stepped forward suddenly and grabbed her by the elbow. "What do you want with my brother?!"
"Why does everyone keep grabbing me lately?!" she demanded angrily, then tensed as the slithering sound got closer. "By the way," she said slowly, "does anything here seem strange to you?"
Katsuya frowned. "Strange?"
"The cars aren't moving?" she suggested mildly.
"They're parked," the detective responded flatly.
She barely refrained from rolling her eyes again. "The ones in the street, too?"
Baofu, Ulala, and Katsuya all turned their heads to look at the no longer moving traffic.
"What the hell's going on here?" Ulala demanded. "Who are you two?"
"I think the more important question right now is 'what is that?'" Baofu said blandly, pointing to what seemed to be a ten-foot long snake-creature now slithering across the top of a parked station wagon.
"I already told you," Riko said, wishing for the hundredth time that she had some sort of real weapon. "They're called Shadows."
The Shadow moved to lunge at them. Riko shoved away from Katsuya, and clapped her hands together. "Sarasvati!"
Her Persona appeared and Riko pointed to the attacking Shadow. Bufula.
The ice attack slammed into the Shadow, stunning it temporarily.
Ulala stared. "That's…"
"A Persona," Katsuya finished, looking equally shocked.
"Riko!" Shun shouted. "Two more coming!"
"Stall them while I finish this one off!"
"You got it!" He turned back to face two more snake-shaped Shadows, though these ones were a different color from the one Riko was fighting. "Thor!" Mazio.
The Shadows took some damage, but not enough to stop them for long. "They're resistant to electricity," he called to Riko.
She finished off the Shadow she was fighting and rushed to his side. "Let's see how they like ice, then." Mabufu.
Her attacked bounced off, and rebounded right back at her. Luckily, she was immune to ice attacks so the rebound had no effect. But still…
"What the hell was that?!" she shouted angrily.
"I guess we're going to have to try something else," Shun said grimly. "Any ideas?"
'You have awoken a new Persona.'
'I have… a second Persona?'
What the hell. Might as well give it a shot.
She clapped her hands together again. "Titania!"
A fairy woman wearing a green dress appeared. Gale Slash, she ordered.
Titania responded, sending arcs of wind at the Shadows. They took severe damage, and dissolved.
"Good job," Shun said appreciatively.
"Thanks," she replied.
"…two Personas?" Ulala said in disbelief. "You've gotta be kidding me…"
Before Riko could answer, time restarted itself, and everything that had become frozen started moving again.
"Care to explain what's happening here?" Katsuya said, looking serious.
"Explanations are Igor's thing," Riko responded. Even though he never tells you the whole story. She looked around, and noticed that a door leading to the motel laundry room had transformed into a blue door that would take them to the Velvet Room. "Let's go."
"Wait, where'd that door come from?" Ulala asked, confused. "I swear that was just…"
"Igor," Riko and Shun said in unison. "This is his way of saying to bring you guys to see him," Riko added.
She led the way to the door and opened it. "Let's go." She stepped through, followed by the others. After a flash of white light, they all emerged into the Velvet Room.
"It's been a while since we were in this place…" Baofu muttered. "Looks a little different this time around…"
Ulala nodded. "Mm-hmm."
"Welcome back to the Velvet Room," Igor greeted them.
"Igor," Katsuya responded, nodding. "It's been a while."
"Indeed it has," Igor agreed.
"Why are we here?" Ulala asked. "And why is that Riko girl looking for Little Suou?"
Igor looked over at Riko. "You did not tell them?"
She crossed her arms. "We were attacked by Shadows; I didn't have a chance to explain everything."
Igor sighed, and then turned to the three adults. "I apologize for any confusion. I will try to explain the situation as best I can."
"That would be much appreciated," Katsuya said.
Igor sat down at a small table that was covered in what seemed to be Tarot cards. "Please excuse the mess," he said apologetically, causing the cards to vanish with a wave of his hand. "My most recent guest was just here a moment ago."
"It's fine," Baofu said. "Just tell us what's going on."
Igor nodded. "Very well." He cleared his throat. "As you know Tatsuya Suou, Eikichi Mishina, Lisa Silverman, and Jun Kurosu all relinquished their memories of their adventures together. Currently, there is a situation brewing that requires their involvement. For that, their memories must be restored."
"Hold on," Katsuya said, frowning, "I thought it was dangerous for them to remember? That the world would be destroyed if they recalled any of it."
Igor nodded. "That was indeed the case. But no longer."
Ulala looked confused. "What do you mean?"
"Enough time has passed so that remembering the events of the past no longer poses any threat to this world," Igor explained patiently. "Regaining their memories will not do any harm."
"You said that there's no danger to the world from this," Katsuya interrupted. "What about them? Will Tatsuya or the others get hurt by remembering?"
Igor shook his head. "No. They will not be harmed by this. May I continue?"
Katsuya flushed slightly, but nodded. "Please."
"I have entrusted this task to Riko. She possesses the ability to restore the memories that have been lost."
They all turned to look at her now, and she put her hands on her hips and stared back defiantly. "What?"
Igor cleared his throat again and they turned back to him.
"As I was saying, I have entrusted this task to Riko. To assist her in her search, I provided her with a short list of names." He gestured to Riko and she pulled out the crumpled piece of paper. "As you can see, it has your names, as well as the names of those yet to be located." He handed the piece of paper back to her. "Now, regarding your Personas…"
"We haven't used them since Tatsuya lost his memories," Katsuya said. "But we should still be able to use them the same as before, right?"
Igor shook his head. "No."
Baofu raised an eyebrow. "No? Why not?"
"Your Personas have changed," Igor informed them. "Which is to be expected. After all, in the time that has passed have you yourselves not changed? And since a Persona is simply a reflection of its user, it is not surprising that your Personas are not what they were previously."
"So…" Ulala frowned. "What are they now?"
"Yours, Ulala Serizawa, is High Pixie." He turned to the others. "Yours, Baofu, is Attis. And yours, Katsuya Suou, is Melchizedek."
"What about Tatsuya and the others?" Katsuya asked. "Will their Personas be different as well?"
Igor nodded. "Yes. But I will not know what their Personas are until they are brought here, to the Velvet Room." He turned back to Riko. "You must hurry," he told her solemnly.
She nodded. "I know. Only three months left, right?"
"Three months until what?" Ulala asked.
"I am sorry," Igor said apologetically, "but until the remaining people on the list are gathered, I cannot divulge all the information regarding the situation."
Baofu turned to Riko. "Who else is on the list?"
"The main four, plus someone named Maya," she answered.
"Amano-san?" Katsuya asked.
"Yeah. You know her?"
He flushed. "Yes. She fought alongside us the last time."
"Miss Riko," Igor said pointedly. "Time is of the essence."
"Ah, right." She bowed to Igor. "Sorry." She turned to Katsuya. "I really need to know where your brother is."
The detective nodded. "He should be at home. I'll take you there."
"We're coming, too!" Ulala announced, linking arms with Baofu and smiling brightly.
Riko looked over at Shun, uncertain of where they stood. "And you?"
He snorted. "You're kidding, right? I spent most of yesterday looking for you, including during the night. You couldn't pay me to go away now that I've finally found you again."
"Even though you could use the money?" she teased, though secretly her heart felt warmed by the revelation that he'd spent all the time since they'd been separated looking for her.
He rolled his eyes. "Let's go."
She chuckled and followed him out the door, with Katsuya, Baofu, and Ulala right behind her.
A/N: Well, how was it? Please review and let me know what you think. :D
Oh, and in case anyone's wondering, I changed the Personas of the original P2 cast both for the reason mentioned in the story (the characters themselves have changed, and as we've seen before, like in P3, when there's a big enough change in the person, their Persona also transforms) and because I haven't played P2, and I don't know what attacks those original Personas use. I know the ever-wonderful internet could tell me, but...yeah. XD I'm pretty much staying with the characters' original Arcana, though, with the exception of Ulala. And in case anyone's up in arms about her new Persona being High Pixie...relax. Her Persona's going to be upgraded, so to speak, later on in the story. The transition from High Pixie to her new Persona is going to be a plot point, so for now just bear with me, okay?
Anyhow, odds are we'll be running into Tatsuya in the next chapter. Which is going to be loads of fun, I'm sure. ;D
To those of you who are wondering: yes, this story will more than likely end up being rather long. Possibly split up into a series. :) But it'll be well worth it, I promise. :D After all, it has (or will have) a lot of great characters in it...Tatsuya, Katsuya, Baofu, Ulala, Maya, Eikichi, Lisa, Jun...plus the P3 cast once I get to that point in the story...Minato & Minako, Junpei, Yukari, Misturu, Akihiko, Shinji(ro), Fuuka, Ken, Koromaru...oh, and Chidori. (I'm firmly in the 'Love Interests Live' group, in case you didn't notice. XD). Hopefully I'll find a way to bring Ryoji back, too. :D And that's not even counting whether or not I'll be bringing P4 crew into things once we get on down the road. Ooh, I'm so excited~
Review, please! Feedback makes me happy. What do you think of Riko? What do you think of Shun? Is anyone too OOC? (As previously mentioned, I haven't played either of the P2 games, so my characterizations may be slightly off.) Let me know what you think! :)
