[Just. Staring.]

...okay. So you have some freaky floaty mind powers. But how about the other thing?

Okay, that last thing? Please never do that, like, ever. [Even if he's not serious, that's not something she'd want to mess with.]

But you know, why not. Let's see if you can figure out what I'm thinking right now.

[Someone else doesn't think that's a very good idea.]

[The first look of surprise on her face is more of a general "Wow I can't believe you actually did that" sort of expression.]

[The second look is far closer to one of horror.]

W-Wait, hold on, you can tell?

[The second voice in her head is laughing now.]

Don't give me that! I-I mean. Did it... say anything? Can you hear its thoughts too?

[He doesn't have to be able to read her thoughts to tell she's freaked out by this thing.]

Please. [Look, she's even asking him nicely and everything.] I'll even explain after if you want me to. Since you showed me your powers, it's only fair.

[The spirit knows it's being called out to now. It'll be louder than before, and more distinct.]

[It is a rare occasion that I have the opportunity to speak with beings through my vessel in such a manner. It would see congratulations are in order. Just what sort of existence are you, I wonder?]

You were seriously talking with it? I can't even tell...

[Which was even more unsettling than she initially thought. Was it always there listening to everything going on around her then?]

[She sighs, then shakes her head.]

That thing is a spirit. I don't know much about it except that it lives inside the pendent I use to transform. The name Hoshikyo just came to me the first time I figured out how to do it, but I think it originally came from the spirit's name. The last time it was "out" it called itself Hoshiko.

Yeah, something like that. I only found out about it after it possessed me once back home. But it only lasted a few minutes, so it didn't really occur to me that it could actually, you know, think.

[That and she was a little distracted with the whole identity-being-revealed to her two friends and all after she suddenly tried to kill one of them.]

But the last time wasn't even two weeks ago. And it lasted a few days. I still can't really remember what it did while it was awake though... maybe that's why its so chatty now...

Yeah. It only let go because my magic ran out. If the barrier didn't limit it, I probably would have stayed that way even longer.

Except the first time it got out, it tried to kill someone. That's hardly something I can sympathize with.

...and the person it tried to kill was the girl I was out on a date with at the time. Kind of a mood killer, don't you think?

"If it succeeded" isn't really something I like thinking about.

[Josh's creepiness-level is going up again.]

But it's dangerous and unpredictable. I can't just let something like that wander around Luceti as it pleases, you know?

Well, no shit. Do I look like a sociopath to you?