Still slightly dazed from ...whatever it was she'd experienced, the girl finds her mind briefly wandering at their host's suggestion to "speak" with their other selves. As if by a daydream an image slowly forms at the gentle urging of those both foreign and familiar to Rose; a simple table with assorted treats and tea laid out before her, and seated with her are five distinct figures. Each one different, yet that she recognized as herself; a feeling not-unlike looking at a picture of yourself from many years ago washing over her while their names came unbidden to her mind. Milhi, Tsubomi, Sakura, Madoka and Nanoha.<br/><br/><div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px"><div class="quotetitle"><input class="button2 btnlite" onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = '';      this.innerText = ''; this.value = 'Hide'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerText = ''; this.value = 'Show'; }" style="text-align:center;width:100px;margin:0px;padding:0px;" type="button" value="Show"/></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">'<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #FF00FF">We</span><span style="color: #FF00BF">l</span><span style="color: #FF0080">c</span><span style="color: #FF0040">om</span><span style="color: #FF0000">e!</span>,</span>' they all chimed together, smiling warmly at her as she took her seat.<br/><br/>"Uh...hi there," she began hesitantly, unsure what to really to herselves.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF0080">I'm so happy you could join us! Though I'm sorry it had to be this way,</span>" apologized Milhiore with a sad smile, the dog eared ruler breaking the silence as she set down her cup of tea.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF0000">No use crying over spilled milk though; I know this is all weird, but you know what we know Rose-Chan,</span>" added the Ace of Aces, eyeing her successor seriously.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF0040">Mr.Goodeman is right; this isn't like the times we've fought before. This time <span style="font-style: italic">everyone's </span>danger,</span>" asserted Madoka with a frown.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF00BF">I know it's a lot to ask, I don't really get it all myself, but they need us; otherwise...otherwise, this thing will gobble everything up!</span>" exclaimed Tsubomi in worry, only to receive comforting hands from those behind her.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF00FF">You can feel it if you pay attention,</span>" began the Mistress of the Star Cards as she gestured towards a 'window' from which she could see a sea of flowers where her host and fellow guests were; along with a breeze that faintly of iron and blood wafting from beyond, and further from even that a looming shadow lingering just past the horizon, "<span style="color: #FF00FF">We're at the center of the Wheel, at the middle of everything Rose. I wish Kero-chan could have found you sooner than this, so you could have gotten ready and used to all this crazyness like I did...but well...,</span>" she ended with an awkward chuckle.<br/><br/>Rose looked to them all, ruminating on their/her words for a few moments more out of ritual than anything else; her answer to this was really the same it had always been. "...Not like we ever let something like that stop us before, right?" <br/><br/><span style="color: #FF0000">That's right Rose-chan! Sure we don't have a fluffy mascot to explain things...</span>"<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF0040">And thank the incarna for <span style="font-style: italic">that</span>,</span>" muttered Madoka a bit too loudly, earning herself a <span style="font-style: italic">look</span> from Nanoha for interrupting her; though the others gave her a more understanding glance.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF00BF">But you've got something <span style="font-style: italic">way</span> that this time around! We won't let you down Rose,</span>"<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF0080">Things will be rough at first, especially with that boy from earlier; and anyone suffering like him, but we can help them,</span>" Milhiore said smilingly.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF0040">You all have your differences right now, and fate may have not been kind to you all, but together your bonds might help lead us away from despair,</span>"<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF0000">Because there's nothing that love, friendship and hope can't beat right girls?!</span>"Nanoha exclaimed to the cheers of the others at the table, to which Rose couldn't help but join in.<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF00FF">For now though, you'd better go back out; we'll always be here for you Rose,</span>"<br/><br/>"<span style="color: #FF0000">But you've been <span style="font-style: italic">kinda</span> spacing out for a few minutes; and it's getting <span style="font-style: italic">really</span> weird,</span>" Nanoha sweatdropped.</div></div></div><br/><br/>Rose practically jumped in her seat as Warren's knife-wielded challenge resounded through the hall, shocking her out of her short trance; a quick look around was really everything she needed to catch up on what she'd half-heard, "Because we're the Wheel's last hope," the young girl began as she strode towards the stage with all the dignity and grace of a schooled princess, the words slipping out of her like water before she'd even realized it, "What's happening isn't something They can deal with directly; so they gathered us. Each of us is the heir to a legacy; and it's that inheritance, all those lessons learned, triumphs and failures that gives us a chance to make a difference. A chance to be the light the world needs us to be," she said as she put a comforting hand on Mistreya; hoping to grab her attention, before trying to snatch the offending lettuce strip.<br/><br/>"And Harrison is the name of the hotel," Rose answered with a bemused smile.