riegan | ➵ hikaru

(Claude is coming back from... somewhere! Where ever that place might be, he has his bow and he's heading back towards the inn when he sees some poor girl staggering around. )

Hikaru? (Something's off with her and he becomes more alert and breaking into a jog to catch her when she slumps up against the building,) Hey!

(He kneels down next to her, reaching to grab her by her shoulders and trying to get a look at her face to see what's wrong,)

Hey, look at me. (Patting her lightly on the cheek,) What's wrong? What happened to you?

(DID....... something else.... happen today???)

[Other than the discoloration under her eyes, she looks fine? She isn't warm to the touch.

She'll start a little against his grip, like she's being woken up.]

...Claude...?

[Her face twists, weakly shoving a palm against her face to try and rub at her eyes. Her coordination is a little sloppy.]

Mmn... I'm okay... I'll be okay... [God love her but she tries to make that sound convincing even though looking him in the eyes takes frustrating effort.]

I've just been really... really tired...

[she rubs at her eyes again, harder this time with a shuddering, exhausted breath out. let her nap in the road you heathen]

Yeah. (It's him! He frowns, taking her hands and pulling them away from her face,) That's enough of that.

(And guess who's just going to swoop down, to pick her up. It's a princess carry,)

You look beat. When was the last time you slept.

Eh--?

[Well, up she goes. She weighs a measly 88lb so that's probably the easiest carry you'll ever have to do, Claude.]

Um... Last night?? This morning, a little, too... Chiron-san asked me to go sleep more after breakfast...

[Is he taking her back oh no]

I-I'll be ok, Claude...! I, um... I really can't be in bed all day, right...?

(Very easy! He's just going to start taking her back to the inn,)

And you're still like this?

(She deosn't feel warm or look ill but... Actually, he thinks he has an idea but he'll deal with that later.)

Yes, you can and you are. You're practically sleepwalking.

[wow she made all that progress and it's being wiped away... she frowns, squirming a little. Please let her down...]

I gotta... I gotta go find somebody, though -- I can't do that if I keep sleeping...!

It's that?

(Anyway to the inn they go!!! And he'll start to carry her up the stairs and stop, muttering to himself,)

Damn...

((Cover your ears, Hikaru)

AND JUST TAKE HER TO THE LOBBY INSTEAD and plop her down on a couch,)

Who is it?

[the twins have been saying fuck around her for two weeks claude

anyway she is dropped with a flustered bounce]

Eh??

Who is-- oh, the person I'm looking for? [She shakes her head.] It's Nico-kun... I made him kind of mad so I... I want to make sure he's okay, but he keeps running away from me...

(Well the difference between the twins and Claude is that Claude has some shame I guess)

Who?

(Who the heck is Nico-kun... first Chijin and now this!! )

When was the last time you saw him? If you're like this, he has to be running low, too...

Low...?

[low what

Oh right he asked her a question

/jeopardy music]

Monday...? I mean, I saw him a couple times since then, but he ... he runs away...

[jeopardy music continues

She does, at least, pull out her PHS and shakily find the profile with the right picture before weakly holding it out to Claude.]

That. That's Nico-kun. "Nico" means you're smiling...

[It's Shuuya Kano.]

➵ hikaru

PROBABLY LATE MORNING/EARLY AFTERNOON

works for me

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject