<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>The Fuchsia Fox and an Artifact Absent</strong></span></div><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/rrbvOfC.png)</div><strong>NAME:</strong>Nerissa<br/><strong>DAY:</strong>December 26th, 2018 |<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong>SOPHE, Second floor balcony<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong>Toshiro | Mentions: Albion<br/><strong>EXTRA:</strong>A new day<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong><br/><br/><hr/><br/>Her ears shot up and eyes wide, the fox demon looked at Toshiro when he got away from her friendly hug so quickly. The human man sounded like he was in a serious pain. “You are really hurt. Should you even be here? Maybe you should be resting at home. I think you should…” Her caring fussing was interrupted by the way the researcher looked at her and his words about the cameras and pretending. Nerissa tilted her head and looked at Toshiro with a great confusion. She had never seen him like this before. His voice, the way he spoke, his whole being were different from how she had been used on seeing him.<br/><br/>The statue? Was he talking about those plastic little girls dolls he collected? “Choose? I… I’m not sure I understand. Have you lost your doll? I don’t have it, but I can help you search for it.” Nerissa suggested carefully to de-escalate the situation. Those little girl dolls seemed to mean the world to this man! She didn’t like where this was going at. The way Toshiro acted made her nervous. The fox demon tried to keep up her happy face and smile, but her smiling was freezing on her lips when Toshiro kept talking nonsense.<br/><br/>The girl took one step away from him, but he just kept coming closer. What is wrong with you?! Why are you acting like this?! Her ears bent down against her thick hair and the golden eyes looked up at Toshiro with fear. “Toshiro… You are scaring me. Please, stop…” the fox whispered with a small voice. Her fingers were wrapped around her cocoa mug. Toshiro was just a human. It was embarrassing for a demon to be afraid of a human, but he was a big human and he looked like he wanted to end her life. This unexpected change in his behaviour was what scared her the most.<br/><br/>“I’m still his friend. It… it wasn’t?” Nerissa tried desperately follow what the man was telling her, but nothing made sense anymore. All this had something to do with Albion and some doll? How was she connected to this?! “I don’t think we are talking about same kind of opening up…” Sure she knew at least one of Albion’s secrets and there might have happened something that wasn’t completely appropriate, but she wouldn’t think it as opening up. “I wasn’t even with Albion last night.”<br/><br/>When Toshiro grabbed her from her shoulders the fox was starting to get seriously terrified. “Hurts…” she winced quietly. Nerissa was going already in her mind through her options in this situation. She could throw her hot drink on Toshiro’s face and run. In the worst case she could cast out her blade and cut him, not to kill, but to distract him enough to get away from him. It was the last resort she wanted to avoid.<br/><br/>Then the tall human man retreated from his own volition, and it felt like it was just because of Marceline. Nerissa didn’t care what was his reason to leave her alone. She felt relieved and inhaled deep. Her knees felt weak and the fox demon slumped on her knees. Her lightly trembling fingers reached out to stroke the soft fur of the purring cat. Her cup was left by her side on the cold floor.<br/><br/>“Toshiro, I don’t want to kill you. I… I thought that we are friends. I still want to be friends with you. Just, please stop scaring me like this. I don’t understand a thing you are saying. I don’t know what statue you are talking about. Have you lost one of those plastic dolls? If it’s important to you I will help you find it. There was no need to go this far just because of that… And…” Nerissa stood up, after picking Marceline gently on her arms. The fox demon believed that as long as she had the cat Toshiro wouldn’t even think about lifting his hand against her. Why did she even need to think he would do so?!<br/><br/>“I’m sorry, but I can’t do that Toshiro. Albion is my friend and I won’t give up on him just because someone asks me to do so. I wouldn’t be a good friend if I did so. If he wants me out of his life he is free to tell it to me himself, but it’s not for you to decide. I would like to think that he is giving me something I have been missing from my life, and I do the same for him. If you truly care of Albion, you won’t ask me to stay away from him because you know it wouldn’t be for his best. If you don’t want to be my friend I will accept that, though I wish you would accept me as your friend.” As she spoke she walked slowly closer, until she was standing in front of Toshiro. Her big eyes filled with tears that were running down her cheeks by the time she carefully let the cat down on Toshiro’s lap. The tears were a result of being scared like that and understanding that Toshiro was so strongly against her. It felt like he was a cold wall, seeping hate, disgust and spite.<br/><br/>“I… I can show you” Nera mumbled and pulled her phone out of her pocket. She opened photo file on her phone and quickly browsed through the photos. “I wasn’t with Albion last night. I can prove it to you. Just… please look at them and don’t hurt me.” The girl offered her phone to him so he could see some pictures that were taken at a club. In the pictures were Nera and some other demon girls in slinky party dresses, more or less drunk. “Look at the time. I was out partying with girls from the volleyball group. Treina drank too much. She started crying about her ex and made a huge scene. We had to take her home and she spent rest of the night hugging her toilet.” She would understand that Toshiro was this jealous if he was together with Albion. Not as friends, but romantically. As far as she knew it wasn’t the case. Though, she didn’t know Albion well enough to swear that he wouldn’t play for both teams. Still, this was toxic jealousy.<br/><br/>The fox demon sniffed and wiped her tears on her sleeve. Her good mood was gone.<br/>