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[cullscuttlefish]

[Feferi looks...tired. That's all you can really say about her, when she lets the video come on. She looks like she hasn't slept much, and she looks like she's gone somewhere to cry for a few minutes before calming down enough to speak.]

H-hi, everyone. I hope everyone's all right?

I - mm. I was going to ask whether or not anyone else's roommates weren't waking up, but...

Please be all right, Sayaka.

...what do you do when this place finally gets to you? I've been trying not to - to let it, but...I think I just really need some friends right now. I was up by the aquarium earlier and I think I'm gonna go back up there.

[She wipes at her eyes, and she thinks she's cut the feed, but:]

...it's never easy, this whole 'actually needing to step up and make decisions' princess stuff...

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[dragonspooker]

...eh? What's up with Sayaka?

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[cullscuttlefish]

She's been asleep for a while now. I thought it was just coincidence at first and I was just catching her napping, but she won't wake up. I've tried all the tricks I know - shaking her, loud noise, cool water - but nothing's working. I'm worried...

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[whatpenguin]

... You're really down right now, huh. [It's weird seeing the usually bubbly Feferi like this, and Genda doesn't like it at all]

Would you like to meet up somewhere, Feferi?

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[cullscuttlefish]

...yeah. Yeah, I would. Where at?

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[hystericull]

[Have an equally miserable-looking idiot. He doesn't do "down-and-out" as gracefully as she does, however. Not by a long shot.]

What they do to you, little fish? Hurts the motherfuckin' pusher somethin' fierce to all be seeing the flap get up outta your gills, girl.

[cullscuttlefish]

I don't even reely know. It's just...it's like I just got caught up in one storm after another then washed up on some rocks. So here I am flopping around, not swimming like I usually am. It sucks.

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[absolute_perception]

[The young boy peers into the screen. He heard everything that was said and walks toward it without really thinking that anything is wrong other than being in other people's dreams. That alone is strange to Elian.]

I hope that you can find something that you would like, like a hobby or talking to plants. I usually read fiction or learn something new when I want to get my mind off of the depressing things.

[cullscuttlefish]

The fish kelp. Swimming kelps, because it's somefin I did all the time at home. But sometimes even that's not enough. I've been here...cod. It's been almost four months now.

Sometimes those familiar things help, and that's good. Sometimes they hurt, though. They remind me of fronds from home. They remind me of fins I miss. And it gets really hard...

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[geometry]

[...He's very close to making an 'E' sound come out of his mouth, but considering what Feferi must have added on accidentally near the end of the transmission, that probably wouldn't be the best idea.]

F-feferi?

Um, I... [He glances between screen and keyboard several times. That's a hard question to answer over the network. Because as far as he's found, the only way to cope with 'the tower getting to you' is to be around someone else. ...So the message ends there as Equius skitters off to the aquarium floor.]

[cullscuttlefish]

[He'll find her with a hand inside one of the tanks. She's petting a cuttlefish, looking very much like she wants to jump inside that tank and stay there for a while. It isn't like she wouldn't be able to breathe underwater, because her gills still work fine - the only problem would be any monster fish.]

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[quarkylass]

Feferi? Do you want to show me around the aquarium?

[ ... ]

I'm sorry, about Sayaka.

[cullscuttlefish]

I think that's a good idea, Jade. Thanks.

...I...mm. I just hope she's okay. I wish I could do something for her...

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[morituramfides]

Heh. Honestly, I wish I knew. [God knows he had let this place get to him in full force lately.]

Sayaka'll be alright. She's tougher than this shit.

[cullscuttlefish]

T)(at makes two of us. 38/

Yea)(, you're rig)(t. S)(e'll pull t)(rough w)(atever s)(it t)(is plaice t)(rows at )(er.

[iron_infidel]

I find it troublesome that when I first met you, your eyes were dreary and the obvious snare of miss sleep shown through. I can see that it has happened again.

I do not mean to intrude, but young empress, what is troubling you?

[cullscuttlefish]

It's -- it's --

Can we meet in perc)(son? I'll be down by t)(e kitc)(en. I don't feel like I can get it all out over t)(e computers...

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[pushedaround]

[ Misery loves company. ]

... What happened, Feferi?

[cullscuttlefish]

It's more like a lot of stuff has just built up over the time I've been here. I cod handle it if it was just one or two fins, but...glub. I feel like a fish that was fine swimming around but got beached and can't get back on her fins.

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[moontothetide]

S-Sayaka...

[...and, another one bites the dust. Tara bites her lip, looking worried.]

...c-can I see her? Um, is that okay?

[cullscuttlefish]

Of course. Do you know where the room is?

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[chainsawn]

.. Is sleeping really such a bad thing..?

[ her expression is pretty blank as she asks it - even her voice doesn't really betray any emotion on her matter, so she just blinks. ]

[cullscuttlefish]

Sleeping itself isn't. But sleeping for days and not waking up is a big problem.

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[verismo]

I'm sure she'll be okay, she's someone who wouldn't give up no matter what.

[...and hey, it's that guy that brought Sayaka to her room.]

[cullscuttlefish]

She's definitely tenacious. I just need to remember that.

Thank you for getting her back here safely. I'm sure she apperchiates it, and I know I do.

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[skulltini]

[Wow, that...sure is a grey girl with horns and fins! Normally Roxy would bust into a bunch of questions. But how tired and sad Feferi looks and sounds ends that plan pretty quickly.]

Hi, uh, I don't know you or anything but if you want some company at the aquarium I'm not doing anything.

[cullscuttlefish]

[blinkblink.]

That would be reely nice. Thank you.

[video] if I'm not too late that is, and sorry for the edit

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch hasn't been checking the network lately. Or doing much of anything when it came to interacting with other people. He'd been hoping to see something, anything in that phantom with Armaros's voice. That was something in itself, he tried to tell himself. A lack of proof towards Gandalf's theory.

But still, it had been hard to deal with interacting with people today. And even worse, apparently several people had fallen unconscious in the day he'd missed in death.

When he hears a familiar voice from the terminal he's sitting against in the library, he gets up to take a look - it's a face he remembers from the meeting, someone else who had been deeply affected by that theory, brought to tears... Oh, he can't leave someone in distress like this in good conscience. Enoch sits down and opens up a reply.*

I...don't know what to do, either, *he admits quietly. Then, after a short pause where he seems to be trying to find something to say,* ...We haven't formally met, but would you like to talk? I could meet you there.

not too late at all!

[cullscuttlefish]

[She recognizes his face, too, from the meeting. That one statement had affected so many people...and it was part of why she was so upset.]

I would appreciate that very much. I'll be up here.

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[kickspenguins]

[He wasn't going to answer this because he's not sure he wants to deal with upset strangers but he's pinged by 'aquarium.']

The aquarium is nice.

[Why yes, that is his attempt at conversation.]

[cullscuttlefish]

[Distraction is good. So she manages a smile.]

It's probably my favorite plaice here. Do you go up there a lot?