Kyanobenthes' Scratch Pad

Is there any explicit information anywhere about just when Natsuki and her mom fell off that cliff? I vaguely remember some flowers being involved in an earlier episode of the anime, but the anime calendar isn’t all that explicit either (or logical half the time).

I’ll be working with some extremely difficult and critical dialogue in the next three chapters, so I don’t know when I’ll get them out. Seriously. ^_^; On top of that, a new school semester is starting and I’m moving again, so I’m pretty busy in the real-life front as well. If it may take even [...]

The clean, powder blue button shirt and black business trousers were not the usual attire in which Shizuru was accustomed to seeing Reito, but she liked the more relaxed and perhaps sincere feel he emanated now. She was not sorry to see the stiff, black school uniform gone; it was as though he sloughed off a manifest part that was infected with the HiME fiasco. A small part of her heart yearned to do the same.

Her own auburn hair was too wiry, cloud-gray eyes too light with too great a contrast around the black pupils, skin too oily. Her lips were a bit too thin, fingers a bit too thick, and feet a bit too large.

Is there any explicit information about how old Nao was when her family was attacked?

*This chapter is better read after 1.7.

Setting: About two months after the HiME festival ended. Winter.

The ceiling was the same—distant, slanting, gray, and with irregular, black indentations that had Natsuki wondering whether tiny eyes were hidden in the cracks. As shadows wavered around the already dark, bluish gray surroundings, she found that she was tied down to the hospital bed, and fear rose in her throat as events began to unfold with slow familiarity.

For the dozen or so people patiently waiting, one reason why I’m takin’ so long is because I’m writing double length. :P So to speak, anyway… (It hurtssssssss-) And to make this a taggable entry–did you know there’s a difference between Western mayonnaise and Japanese mayonnaise? I had no idea. I’m guessing Natsuki is addicted [...]