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"(teaser 2) S5M4 Try, Try Again"
 
   Probably the last of these; there's just not that much in this one that lends itself to the format.

        "You know," Utena mused to Corwin as the three stood on the
balcony, "I'm starting to wonder about you."
Corwin blinked. "... I beg your pardon?" he said.
"Well, look," said Utena, her tone of voice - slightly at odds
with her opening remark - easy and equable. "You remember the first
time we went to Asgard?" Corwin knew this question was too preposterous
to be anything but rhetorical, so he just nodded and let her get on with
her point. "I asked you if all the women you knew were as beautiful as
the Valkyrie I'd seen. Who were, at that point, let's see... your mom,
Vigdis, Kijana, and Lenneth. And you said something like, 'Uh, yeah, I
guess.' Closer to home you had Achika, Reiyna, Dorothy, the Utonium
girls - at least one of whom has a -huge- crush on you, by the way, you
probably never noticed... "
"She told me," Corwin put in. "Last spring."
"Oh. Well, good for her. That kind of thing takes guts,
believe me. Did you at least kiss her?"
Corwin went a little red, recalling that in fact he hadn't, but
it had been a near thing. "Uh... well, no."
Utena shook her head with a patient sigh. "Typical," she said.
She leaned back to look at Anthy across his back. "Hopeless. He's
hopeless."
Anthy nodded sagely. "Entirely," she agreed, then sipped her
tea and added, "Nearly as much so as you, my love. You're very well-
matched."
Corwin chuckled. "Zap," he murmured cheerfully, offering a fist
for her to bump without looking.
"ANYway," Utena plowed on, ignoring the point scored, "then
there's your 'cousin' - "
"Mirai?!" Corwin blurted. "When you and I met, and don't think
I don't know where you're going with this, she was -eleven.-"
"Yeah, you didn't hear the quotation marks," Utena went on
breezily, "as I was saying, your 'cousin' Kaname. She's a lot like me,
you know. Enough so that I'm shocked she didn't have you walking into
doors long before I ever came along."
Corwin turned to face Utena, leaving his right elbow on the
railing and putting his left hand on her shoulder. "Wait, where -are-
you going with this?" he wondered, sounding a little concerned now.
She smiled. "I'm not jealous and I'm not feeling inadequate,"
she assured him. "It's just a thing I'm trying to -explain- to myself.
You've grown up around all these incredible girls and women. A lot of
your -best friends- are girls and women. And yet -I'm- the first one
who ever made you realize why there's a difference? Without trying to,
or even realizing I -had- for a while?" She shrugged. "Having a hard
time getting my head around that lately."
"Is it really so difficult?" Anthy wondered mildly. She crossed
behind Corwin, putting her teacup down on the table as she passed it,
and went around to the far side of Utena, then took her arm and leaned
against her shoulder. "You revolutionize people's lives, Utena. It's
what you -do.-"
"Y'know, she's got a point," said Corwin, facing front again and
doing his best to get his left arm around both of them.

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