[Open] Stars and Strings

Insomnia could really affect people negatively at times; the inability to sleep could really mess with people's bodies. Chitose had always been the type to sleep much longer than she should in the past, but things had changed. Now, her body never got tired from sleep deprivation, something which was actually very inconvenient for the tiny teenager. She got very restless if she wasn't actively doing something to keep herself occupied and there was only so much she could do every day. So, forcing herself to sleep was really, really hard.

This night was another such night, where Chitose went out to explore. She was dressed in a light black jacket with a very fuzzy interior and a pair of blue jeans and sandals. Chitose really liked sandals, so she liked to wear them whenever possible - and it wasn't that cold this night, so that bit was settled easily enough!

Chitose had a particular liking for stargazing; she had never seen much of a starry sky at Los Angeles, so stargazing was only a very recent liking that the living 6 inch figure had acquired. The Manta Carlos islands were pretty far away from dense civilization, so not even the lights of the city inhabitants of Manta Carlos could cover up all the stars in the sky.

Going towards one of the towers along the sides of the academy, Chitose reached a set of winding stars leading up. The stair steps were larger than she was, so climbing them would take an immensely long time. Not spending too much of her time thinking of the stairs, the small girl then looked at one of her hands, an index finger extended,

It is a good thing that creep injected me with so much of his power. I do not think I would get anywhere without this power. What should I draw this time...

Chitose decided to be rather lazy and simply drew a small handheld propeller in mid-air, whose drawing floated in air until it was considered 'complete' by Chitose. Once complete, it fell into her waiting hands; it was a set of two handles on the opposite side of four wind-cutting propellers. The propeller device looked as if it was sketched by a Japanese comic artist and somehow pulled into the real world and made three-dimensional. Since Chitose's body was all made of the same material, her weight was evenly distributed throughout her body - so flying through the air on a handheld propeller in her hands was actually easier than you'd expect. It didn't let her fly very fast, but it was a lot easier to draw than more complex things.

Holding the handheld propeller up in the air with one hand, she held a trigger on the handle that spun them, making a light whirring noise as a result. The propellers were angled in just the right manner and fast enough to pick Chitose up into the air. Now hanging from the propeller handle rather than actually holding it up, she carefully angled the propeller to fly up the winding stairs at a decent rate. A wrong move of the propellers or her body would cause her to flip upside-down or careen into a wall, so Chitose took it carefully.

Eventually Chitose flew all the way to the top, being rewarded with the beginning of its great view... and of the presence of someone else here. Chitose, ever the socializer, immediately decided that she would make her way over towards the other girl and introduce herself. The anime figure was patient, though - she hovered behind Enua at her eye level to see if the middle schooler would hear the whirring of her handheld helicopter device.

If Enua was so engrossed by her study that she never realized, Chitose would have cleared her throat and speak out to her with a smooth, gentle tone, "Hello. I came up here to enjoy the starlit sky when I ran into you here. You seem to know a lot about stargazing. Anyway, my name is Chitose and I would love to learn what you are up to!"

When the middle schooler made such an energized response to her greeting, Chitose couldn't help but let out a very light giggle. Not quite used to sounding so girlish, she quickly put a hand up to her mouth and stifled it, though she didn't quite know that such a move may be considered even more feminine.

Regardless, she didn't blush or act shy after that - ever the socialist who typically kept a controlled image of herself, she smiled warmly to Enua even as she accused Chitose of being out so late. The living anime figurine did look pretty young, so she understood why Enua might think that anyway. Chitose's response was level and gentle, "Well, I am actually a freshman in college. It is a bit embarrassing to admit, but I have been a little out of my zen trying to adapt to life on the island so I do not know if I even have a curfew or not."

Still hovering in air at eye-level to Enua by hanging onto the propeller with one hand, Chitose rubbed the side of her neck a little awkwardly, "Plus, well, my body doesn't need sleep. I can go to sleep, but unless I actually feel tired there is just no way to get myself asleep," Chitose admitted, before smiling back to Enua as she properly introduced herself. The freshman nodded to the energetic girl when she clarified that she was, in fact, looking at stars - Chitose thought it was a little redundant to say that, but Enua seemed to positively charged that she couldn't even be bothered by it.

Chitose looked to Enua curiously as she spoke about knowing a lot about stargazing, "Really? You do have a lot of paper out here... it would be nice to join you and learn if you would let me," Chitose asked. Then, once the middle schooler got to asking about the artist's propeller device, Chitose nodded towards Enua as she held out an index finger, "I am... a magic piece of art, a collectible figurine. Well, I am actually more than that I hope, but that is the bottom line. Anyway, I have a power related to art thanks to that. I can draw things like this thing into reality."

Chitose started swirling her index finger about, willing her finger to paint something circular. She added a slight edge to the sides to give it a third dimension along with some shading, and then considered it done in her mind. The disk then became real and started falling due to gravity, though Chitose caught it before it fell - it was a blue Frisbee, though it was her size so it was rather small.

"Like that."

Chitose laughed gently back to Enua when she enthusiasticalyl called her a 'literal flying anime character'. The young woman was a bit worried that the middle-schooler might try comparing her too much to the character she represented, Yasui Chitose, but luckily nothing of the sort happened. Instead, she just seemed to make a joke about how Yasui Chitose was a high schooler.

Now that she thought of it, that was a good point; would Chitose look like this for her whole life without aging? Hopefully she wouldn't have to find out, being an anime figurine was neat and all but she was very sure she would be better off as a human. Chitose wasn't one to give up so easily, but she had to make some friends first in this new place at least. There was no way she was going to just hide away rather than continue having a life! Anyways, Chitose had a rebuttal to give Enua that was vaguely related to her character,

"Well I ran away from college to be a high schooler, can't you tell?" She jested, though she was quickly silenced when Enua showed her the two notable star-chart sheets. To the relatively uninitiated eye of Chitose's, both charts looked as if they were written in an alien language - the Northern Hemisphere chart used words in their annotations that she had never even seen before. As such, the other chart was all the more alien, and interesting, to the anime figurine. It distracted her enough that she almost didn't finish drawing the little Frisbee, though she still managed to do so and was rewarded by Enua's praise.

Chitose nodded to Enua, "Yup, I sure can. It does not seem all that impressive when compared to those sheets that you showed me, though. Did you create them yourself?" she asked, genuine curiosity and wonder in her voice as she spoke. Those star charts looked like some serious work was put into them.

Most people would have probably started to feel a bit weak in the arm if they were hanging onto a flying propeller device for as long as Chitose was, but she was special. Her body moved through the power of her magic aura, not muscle - she may be very weak, but it would take her a very long time to get physically tired.

In fact, it was much more likely for her drawings to start malfunctioning way before she got tired. That was exactly what started to happen as Chitose listened to Enua talk about her method of acquiring those star charts; the figurine's flying machine started making a low metal screeching sound as the blades were getting ms-aligned.

Drawing with one's index fingers is way different than a super-accurate machine creating a similar device, so her constructs were bound to malfunction pretty quickly regardless of them being powered by magic. Chitose looked up to her propeller with some worry as it made that screeching sound, letting out a concerned
"Hmmm..." as she went to grab the other handle of the device. While trying to decide what to do, Chitose looked over to Enua with a somewhat bemused look on her face as she asked about her schooling preferences. She then let out a light laugh before replying,
"Hah, I did not actually do that. I thought you were joking about how old I look, saying how you thought I convinced people to make me a high schooler. I am a freshman in college."

With the metal-on-metal sound getting louder, the artist let out a light sigh as she started lessening her grip on the triggers on the handles of the propeller device, trying to slow the blades down so that she could hover down to the ground. Instead, however, the propellers seemed to un-screw the cap keeping the propellers in place as they spun, causing the blades to fly up into the sky at a very fast speed.

Without the propellers keeping her in the air anymore, Chitose fell down towards the floor. As a tiny girl she would barely be hurt by such a fall, but if she did hit the ground she would have still let out an "Ow!!!" followed by her rubbing a now sore butt.