It was quite a change setting up to leave all by herself. She hadn't done that since before finding Mosqui, Yuki and Hiro. And she hadn't ever roused herself to any adventure since falling back to Earth from the moon.
Actually, it felt rather good to have a goal to attend to again. Rather than just sitting, brooding, eternally young, immune to disease and poison, able to go forever without food or water, or even air she suspected. Dying within as Mosqui, and all other company, continued to be absent from her life as surely as she remained alive without.
Rumors were said that her shop was haunted, with her as the ghost. Kids watched it with a kind of amused terror. Of course, the elders of hong kong knew the story (many had been young when she started the store) but they never spoke of it, and never visited her (unless at extreme need for aid). She rarely received customers, and that was okay. She was comfortably well off as far as money was concerned. Her adventures had often netted her many funds. And after the moon she'd really stopped spending money, so they grew and grew.
Men came asked to handle her funds, she read things through carefully to make sure she wasn't cheated, and then said yes, and her money grew.
So now she was quite rich, living simply in an antique clock shop, with nothing to accompany her time but caring for the clocks.
Until she opened the hanger and was off into the air in the prop plane she bought on a whim two years ago...just in case.
It was only an hour or two later when Mosquiton and his elemental servants walked into the clock shop.
"Inaho!" Mosqui shouted excitedly.
"Momma Inaho?!" Yuki called out, Hiro joining her.
It was quite obvious, after a quick examination, that Inaho still lived here. Everything was kept just as she kept it...the kitchen was still untouched. The clocks, strangely enough, were in immaculate condition.
And, of course, there was the small shrine full of pictures of the four of them from various adventures when they were more carefree.
"She still lives here, Master," Yuki noted.
"And I don't see any sign of a fight," Hiro added. "Maybe she's just out shopping...you know how she is."
"I know how she was," Mosquiton said. "But if you haven't noticed there's hardly a new thing in the house. The only thing even close is the bill of sale for a new plane."
"Well, the old one did get destroyed," Hiro noted.
"If there's a new plane," Yuki said. "Then why is the hangar empty?"
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