week four curfew but we all bully zetsu

[pura]

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[nightchild]

[METEION WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS AHHHHH Itsuki will be worriedly attending to Meteion, but when he isn't... he'll probably be pacing anxiously around the cafe, sorry his emotions are all pent up like this

he's passing out pillows and blankets... he's remembered to bring some,]

[pura]

... You came prepared this time, huh?

[nightchild]

...Yeah.

[his emotions are a bit helpless, but still]

Forgot to bring some last week, but at least... [he has them now??]

[pura]

[Ain't that a fucking mood.]

Not like anyone has remembered to bring some before...

[Or at least, no one has been thoughtful enough to do so in her curfews. She shoots a glance in Meteion's direction, frowning.]

... Make sure to offer her the nicest ones. And any extras.

[nightchild]

[Itsuki follows her gaze, his emotions are still WORRIED, but]

...I will. [nogiku, softe... well he's already known that though] Here. These are my second-nicest ones.

[blanket and pillow!!!]

[pura]

[Stop perceiving her.]

Second nicest? [She takes the pillow and blanket. This is an echo chamber of worry, tbh.] What will you leave for yourself?

[allomantic]

[taking a blanket as he passes them out.]

...Thank you.

[nightchild]

...Let me know if you need any extra.

[his anxiety does simmer down a little at least,]

[allomantic]

I'm fine. If there are extras, give them to Meteion.

[nightchild]

[he nods]

...You hungry?

[allomantic]

A little bit, I guess.

[nightchild]

[he'll move towards the counter,]

Probably shouldn't eat anything too sugary... But maybe a little is fine? What do you think?

[allomantic]

Isn't everything here sugary...?

[nightchild]

We could eat a croissant? They seem fine.

[no they're super sugary too]

[allomantic]

Which one is a croissant...?

[looking over them all]

[nightchild]

[he'll point them out for her]

There. They don't have any frosting or sprinkles, so they should be okay.

[graverot]

[Wrapping a blanket around himself.]

Thanks, Itsuki. Want to sit for a bit?

[nightchild]

[he hesitates for a moment, then nods.

at least his frenetic energy simmers down a little when he sits.]

...Sorry. I keep forgetting that my emotions are... [he waves a hand as if to say 'out there']

[graverot]

Nothing to be sorry about. There's nothing wrong with that.

[except when it's upsetting a bird, but he doesn't seem judgmental about it.]

[nightchild]

[thanks shale...

Itsuki just looks at his hands for a moment,]

Wherever we go on Thursday... Are those places a part of the prism?

[graverot]

[hmmm. they think about it, a little flare of worry.]

Well, yes. They have to be, everything is part of the prism. But I don't know what's causing those things to occur, or why you're getting dragged in there.

[nightchild]

[he nods slowly,]

I wasn't there to see it -- but Te-kun and Jiu-chan died in that place we were in. I think I did too, but it's kind of fuzzy.

If we died there and came back, somewhere that's part of the prism... then what about here? Maybe...

[there's worry, tension, but also the barest thread of hope, desperate.]

[graverot]

[and in return he'll get unease and sorrow.]

No. [very definitively, interrupting the trailed off thought.] Where you went, I've been trying to figure it out. Some sort of... something in between a dream and a reality. You know not everything you saw in there was real; time didn't pass the way it appeared to, right?

And you've seen what happens to people who die here. They die.

[nightchild]

[...there's a pulse of grief]

...That was a dream, and this is the reality, huh?

[graverot]

[yeah. they seem sorry for that, though, but nod slowly.]

I don't mean to be blunt. I understand why you ask. [...] I used to tend to a graveyard. I've met a lot of people dealing with grief.

Often they're, uh, coming to our temple, hoping for a particular type of miracle. And the world is full of miracles, even from the little I've seen of it, but the desire for that particular one is what I've most often seen tear people apart.

Accepting loss is...the only route to heal from it.