<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/ac/Taro03.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Taro Ikeda (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=257738.msg12730054#msg12730054)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Cafeteria<br/><strong>Time:</strong>Flashback - a few days before school starts, breakfast time<br/><strong>With:</strong>Shizuma + Open<br/><hr/>"Okay." Taro nodded, signaling that it was fine by him if Shizuma didn't go into any details of what she called her 'punishments'. But the more she talked about the whole situation, the more Taro came to realize that it wasn't so much the metaphysical implications, the religious angle that gave him pause. He took a sip of tea before his second cup could grow cold too. Of course he could keep mum about it, sit on his thoughts, but it wouldn't be fair. Shizuma was a friend. He had promised that and he had meant it. And friends weren't supposed to keep secrets from each other, were they?<br/><br/>"Shizuma," he said slowly, holding on to his cup with both hands. "I'll be honest with you. This whole idea of wind spirits that listen to you, that communicate with you in some way... It makes me a little uneasy. Not because I don't believe you. You know best how your powers work, but it's the thought of ... being watched by invisible beings."<br/><br/>Taro sighed and gnawed his lower lip, looking down at the table between them. He really didn't want to rain on her parade, but he just knew he could hold back that thought only so long. Best to clear the air early on.<br/><br/>"The idea of being watched by something, or someone, I can't see when we are together, that's just..." He looked up at her and squared his shoulders. "It's a little creepy, truth be told."