Taenia Memoriae

[Mami Tomoe]

Mami laid with her weight evenly distributed across each of the three benches on her dinghy, which were now wrapped in blankets and pillows made from ribbons. The boat was now fortified at its edges with those same ribbons. But despite her comfort, Mami did not sleep - Her eyes were open, trained on the sky. She still felt pain in her burns, but the pain was beginning to subside through ignorance. She would need to find some way to mend them soon, or at least some way to bandage them. No immediate means of doing so came to mind, unfortunately, so it seemed she would simply need to stick things out as hard as she could until she found some kind of doctor... Since it certainly seemed she didn't need to keep her abilities as a Magical Girl, nor the fight that she just took part in, a secret.

She had been drifting for long, longer than she had bothered to remember - All she knew was that the time she had spent stuck in the wooden cradle she called her boat was too much time indeed. Where was she going? Where had she gone? It seemed almost as if she had been drifting through nothing for so long that she would never reach land again.

Just then, she felt a sudden crash against the front of the boat. She bolted up into a sitting position, ignoring the pain she felt in her head from impact, and tossed everything inside the boat up onto the land she had crashed against. In about five seconds she swiftly tossed a dozen and a half pillows and eight blankets onto a little stone ledge, then she jumped up from her boat and onto the ledge, which was about eight meters from sea level. She would need to ensure her boat didn't drift away on her, so she looked for something she could use as a short-term anchor for pulling the thing to shore. She looked to the island she now was standing on, where she saw she was in a small clearing - Dense forest made up the majority of the island from what she could see.

She was fortunate in that sense, as she had a number of potential anchors. She extended her left arm out, sent a ribbon from her left sleeve, and then sent another from her right sleeve at the boat below her. Both connected with their targets and wrapped around them - Mami began to pull the boat up from the water by walking towards the tree - The boat offered great resistance, and it didn't help much that Mami was not much when it came to feats of physical strength. She began to pant, and a bit of sweat mixed with ocean spray covered her brow as she looked back to see part of the boat's edge on the cliff she had been standing on about half a minute ago. With energy and hope renewed, she continued on stronger until she felt no more need to pull; At that, she let her ribbons return to her sleeves, where she dispelled them and returned to her position near her boat.

The clearing she found herself in now was far from impressive. It was small, almost cramped in size, but she hoped it would be nice enough to call home for a short time. With a smile she returned to her makeshift camp, a boat that could be described as an underdog at best and a pile of cushions and thick blankets. Mami had no idea what she could do with this that would give her some form of temporary shelter, at least one that would remain stable. She could try making something with Omnilium, but she got the impression that making something big and important like a shelter would take lots of the stuff, unlike her school uniform.

"I guess I could always just rest here for a while," Mami concluded. She picked up a blanket, laid it out flat on the stone near the cliff (But of course far enough from the edge so she wouldn't fall), covered its edges with pillows and laid a blanket out on top. She slipped underneath the top blanket, got comfortable, and with a smile she let herself drift off to sleep.