Kanbaru Otoko
It was supposed to be the happiest time of the year. Savoring the fruits of Christmas generosity as one lounged in the interim between the final holiday of one year and the beginning of another. They should have been bowled over at home, stuffed on left overs and enjoying the quiet of snowy days with kin and company. At least, that was what Kanbaru would have liked. Truly, she'd love nothing more then to be home, hold her sister in her arms and refuse to let her go.
Because someone had broken the tenuous rules shared between Dark Magical Girls, and when that last vestige of right and wrong is crossed, no one is left unscathed. Kanbaru was the keeper of the rules, and while that may not make her the de facto executioner of rule breakers, it meant she had to enforce them where she could.
So there she was, roaring across Miso City astride her motor cycle, her rear aching from being perched astride the seat in full magical regalia so long, she'd have made overtime pay from hunting since the discovery of Luna's death till then. The city didn't know it, but it was absent a staunch champion now, one who infuriated Kanbaru in the same way her partner did with her cavalier attitude towards their nightly work. That Luna had the ability to back up her brash ways only made the situation more worrisome, but that was neither here not there.
Riding atop a sheet of ice, her path across the rooftops was smoothed over beneath a wave of her magic that would melt without issue in her passing. The city was starting to drown in Nightmares, and even a Dark Magical girl could claim to not want every street corner to not be an all you can eat buffet of power if it meant blanketing the city in it.
They were selfish, true, but the city was where they lived. One didn't ruin the home they slept in and expect good things as a result.
Tsuruga Deishuu
Paranoia was a constant companion for Tsuruga, but even she found it novel to have it validated. After all, it's not a delusion when someone is out to harm you. Or at least, out harming Light Magical Girls, but even if they killer never laid a hand on the Dark Girls, it was inevitable the spill over would splash them in the face one way or another. Either the surviving victims would conclude the Dark Girls were somehow culpable and attack wildly, or the city would grow ponderously darker in their absence.
This of course assumed there would be more killings, but Tsuruga wasn't optimistic enough to think otherwise. Least of which reasons why being that she had no alibi for the night in question. Misanthropic tendencies made such social gatherings rather daunting a prospect for her.
However solitude was something she could ill afford for both safety, security, and the simple face that there were more Shadows then could be easily handled alone. A good thing then, to have a partner for such occasions as she needed help.
"...."
Except she'd been standing on Ami's doorstep for ten minutes now, hand raised towards the doorbell yet unwilling to take the final step. With a heavy sigh she retracted her hand and sat down on the snow dusted stoop, ignoring the cold creeping up through the stone in order to wrap her arms across her chest. "I can wait for her to be ready."