<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/>It started to snow. White snowflakes floated peacefully down. They gathered on the fox demon’s hair and shoulders, forming a thin white veil on top of her pink hair. Tirelessly the girl stroke Toshiro’s hair, preventing snow gathering on it. Gently and slowly like she was petting a cat. The normally talkative demoness was now quiet. Without a word she just sat there, holding Toshiro near her body and giving him all the comfort she could. It was painfully oblivious that the human man was suffering. What he showed to outside was probably just a scratch of surface. You poor creature, Nerissa thought.<br/><br/>Nerissa didn’t know how long they were like that, lost in that sad moment, letting the world outside them move forward without noticing it. The fox demon gave Toshiro a small reassuring smile when he looked at her. She kissed gently a tear off of his cheek. “It’s okay Toshiro. It’s okay. The part of you that doesn’t want to believe it, that part of you wants to trust me. We have time. Take as long as it takes and maybe someday I have shown you that you can trust me. When you are ready to take that step, I will be there waiting for you and we can be friends” The silly fox allowed him to see her understanding and caring side. Her pleasant, warm voice felt just as soft as her expensive wool sweater, it felt like her voice could wrap Toshiro into a feeling of safety and serenity.<br/><br/>As the man started to tell her what had happened the girl took a new paper tissue from her pocket and gently patted remains of tears from Toshiro’s face. So, he hadn’t been talking about those little girls dolls but of an actual statue. She wasn’t the one who would judge him from doing something like that. Especially when she didn’t even understand why the statues was important.<br/><br/>Nerissa struggled to keep a calm face and not shower Toshiro with her questions. Just what is going on between you two? Is that your idea of friendship? Or is that how things work here…? Only thing she figured out from those details was that they were two extremely horny men! And there was a chance that Albion was interested in men too. It started to sound like men really wanted only that one thing, and gender didn’t matter in that.<br/><br/>“No. It’s not stupid Toshiro. I honestly don’t know if Albion thinks of you that way or not, but it’s not stupid to think that someone might think you as more than a friend.” Carefully she took his head between her palms, forcing the man to look into her big eyes. “You are a good man Toshiro. You are kind and caring. I believe that you care much more for others well being than your own. You are a gentle soul and a nice looking human, when you aren’t in this horrible condition. You deserve to be loved and you will be loved. Just be yourself and one day someone who appreciates the true you will come across and you will be so happy that all the lonely years before will become meaningless.” Nerissa believed in every word she said. How could she keep going on herself if she didn’t believe that good things would happen? The fox demon closed her eyes and kissed Toshiro’s forehead.<br/><br/>Now that the man had calmed down it was time to tell him her view of what had happened. “The person who did all this to you wasn’t me. I have two sisters who live here in Tokyo too and even the demons struggle at telling us apart from each other, so I can’t blame you for mistaking her into me. I know that Marette wouldn’t do such a thing, but… Rinessa is a different thing. She has very little respect towards the humans” In other words she despised them and their ways. “Nessa has a bad habit of stealing things. I think I can prove you that isn’t wasn’t me. She touched you, right? That’s how her magic works. She has to touch you in order to feed her illusions into your mind, but she can’t take those images from your mind. That’s why I think you saw a flawed version of Albion. Did she know your name? I doubt she knows neither one of you, but she might have seen you if you spend time in same places, so he has shown you Albion as she thinks he might look like. And you touched her?”<br/><br/>It sounded like there had been quite much touching involved. Nerissa gestured Toshiro to look at the other end of the bench, where she created a small illusion of a colorful dinosaur. It looked like a plushie, moving around in a funny way until Marceline tapped it with her little paw and made it break into a grey smoke. “That’s all I can do. There is no sound and it will break when touched. My illusions are like soap bubbles. They are fragile pictures without sound and they burst easily. That’s why it couldn’t be me. I can’t imitate someone’s voice and if I took Albion’s form it would break as soon as you touched empty space through the illusion. He is bigger than I am, so there would be parts that would be just an illusion.” Nerissa explained calmly.<br/><br/>“I will call her and ask her to return the statue. And your money. It will be alright Toshiro. I doubt I will get her to apologise to you, but…” The family definitely was the worst. Nerissa got out from the bench and Toshiro’s lap. Just to take couple steps back and get on her knees. “I’m sorry Toshiro. You had to go through so much. I’m sorry for all the pain she caused to you. I don’t accept the things Rinessa does, but I don’t have the power to change her. I can’t undo what has happened, but I will do everything in my power to fix this situation.” The young fox demon placed her palms on the cold ground and bowed her head down, all the way down until her forehead touched the floor and her hair spread over, covering her face. “Allow me to give my sincerest apologies on behalf of my sister! I beg you to forgive the wrong doings she has done to you. I’m truly sorry Toshiro, from the bottom of my heart. If you feel like these acts have to be punished, please punish me instead of her. I will accept the punishment you see fit to atone this all.”<br/><br/>Nerissa was familiar with the human traditions and unlike her sister, she respected them and wanted to adjust into her new world instead of fighting against it. She sounded just as sincere as her words were. Leaving it all to Toshiro, Nerissa stayed in that position, her head bowed down. She knew that considering Nessa’s boundless loathe towards humans she would never apologise and if Toshiro would try to avenge her there would be consequences. It could end up in a ugly circle of revenge, that could suck in other people too and Nerissa wanted to avoid that.<br/>