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[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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[...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.]

[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.]

[Oh god, the aquarium. He... didn't come up here often, mostly because the decor seems to bludgeon him around the head every time he enters, but you know what? He has to do this. He wants to do this. Even though he's treading quietly, the boots he's wearing make his footsteps clear as day as he walks around the aquarium, looking for her. And once he finally does, he has to stop several feet away.]

...Hello, Feferi.

Equius?

[Feferi hadn't honestly been expecting him to come up there and find her. She's glad that he did, though, and she'll meet him where he is, not forcing him to come in further. She's careful not to hug him just yet - no risking knocking him into the water, not when he looks a little green. Instead, she'll reach for one of his hands, giving it a squeeze.]

Thank you.

[Neither had he. But, you know, things happen. So here he is. And he even manages to retain some shred of composure when she reaches out for his hand; the muscles tense for a second, of course, because physical contact is a strange and alien thing when it's not intended to spill mustard-colored gunk all over the floor. But somehow, he perseveres, and is even able to give her a small nod in response.]

You're welcome.

I, um... I saw the post you made on the Network, and... [Physical interaction helps the Tower blues. Oh god he's so close to saying it-- yeah no he's not.] ...I figured I might be able to... h-help you somehow? ...I mean, er, if you're willing to disclose the heart of your matters with a. A gutterblood.

[She is not going to have any of that hemospectrum nonsense. Not now, not ever. Instead? She is going to pull him into a hug.]

Y-yeah. That would help. But don't ever call yourself a gutterblood again. Nobody deserves to get called a name like that. Okay?

[Feferi lets go a second later.]

Let's go downstairs, okay? You look a little green...

[Unfortunately, the hemospectrum bit will not die easily -- but she could probably infer that already, considering the persona of his other self. What she could probably also infer is that Equius? Doesn't take hugs well. He basically goes stiff as a board when she hugs her, the gasp clearly audible even over the burble of the water, and only after she lets go does he find himself capable of speaking with anything approaching coherency.]

...Okay.

[Nepeta had threatened to make him vow the same thing. Even though she didn't, in the end, he was mindful of how he referred to himself around her from that point on. Now, it appears, he's stuck describing himself as a 'yellowblood' again.]

Er, it's... it's just the light. [Or, at least, that's what he would assume. Not once did it occur to him that she might not have meant it entirely literally.]

[She knows that, considering the Equius she knows. But that doesn't mean she's not going to try. On both counts.]

All right. And, hm. Where's a plaice you like? It doesn't have to be here, just somewhere that makes you feel calmer when you're upset.

[His first instinct would be to tell her 'Floor Fifteen' -- the workshop. The only place where he had ever felt completely at peace was a workshop, be it here or back on Alternia; oddly enough, for how cowardly he is the rest of the time, he seems to be at his calmest surrounded by swords and lasers and mechanical killers. But Feferi wouldn't like that at all, he figures; he has to choose something else. Finding himself unable to lie and say something like the meadow, he instead has to go for the next best thing.]

...The kitchen. Behind the cafeteria.

Where would you really feel most comfortable? I don't care where it is. I just don't think it'd be there. At least the version of you I know wouldn't be happiest there. It's okay! Really.

I'm... not really the version you know.

[He's seen that guy, alright. They're as similar as night and day. But yeah, there are two primary things that calm him down: mechanics and baking. For real.]

...Though, um, if you insist... we could go to floor fifteen instead...?

Think about it. We can go bake something if you really want, but if you'd feel more comfortable working on something, I can watch or I can help! I think stuff like that is pretty neat. Never could figure out any of it worked.

...No, I... this isn't about me. It's about you.

[Seriously, how did they get onto that topic anyway? He doesn't know. Sagittarians are QUALITY conversation managers, don'cha know.]

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