✿ Sixth Bud [accidental video]

[seiriald]

H-hey, don't go falling! [Hello, Luceti, it seems that one of the journals out there has decided to turn on the video feature to show you one lovely ceiling, with rather creepy shallow breathing heard in the background. Before long a frazzled Kaori pops into the picture from the edge of what must be a bed, clearly still half-asleep since her eyes

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[voice | filtered like always because he's cool like that]

[imatreenow]

Are you feeling okay? ...You don't look well.

[This is Mithos actually being concerned for the well-being of another person? Feel special, Kaori. His sister had a bit of a penchant for falling ill, you see, including with a condition that affects only one in every million people. So though it has been a long, long time, this still feels strangely familiar.]

[voice | filtered because it's special~]

[seiriald]

[Hey, it's Mithos, someone to be honest with always. It makes her feel guilty that she can't come to the journal itself so he could see her, though it might not be a good thing. She hadn't been ill in months, so this was worse than usual.]

Just feeling ill, this is the first time it's happened here in the village...

[voice | filtered because everyone else can go die in a fire]

[imatreenow]

[He doesn't like the sound of that - protective mode activating! The worry in his voice is audible.]

A recurring illness? For how long has this been going on?

[voice | filtered because nothing tastes better than flaming flesh]

[seiriald]

Well, this has been happening since I was born, from what I know... [It wasn't so much an illness, that would be considered more of a side effect of what her body was constantly struggling against.]

[voice | filtered but why don't we stick with something less morbid, like chocolate ice cream]

[imatreenow]

...Is there no way to heal it? [Though he can already guess the answer, if she's had this condition since birth.

[voice | filtered because strawberry ice cream is so much better]

[seiriald]

None that we know of, unfortunately. As long as I get some rest it should be gone in a few days. That's all we can do, really...

[voice | filtered because I can totally concede that point]

[imatreenow]

But it will come back again. [Which is definitely not healed, as far as he's concerned. Martel used to do this when she was unwell - assure that her health was in a far less severe condition than it actually was.

..."We"? He wonders about that.]

...Is this common among your kind? [...come to think of it, he doesn't know what exactly that is. But part human, part something else, and caught in between like himself...that is all that matters.]

[voice | filtered because heck yeah let's go get some]

[seiriald]

[There's no denying that it would come back again; to be honest, she was surprised it had taken this long to finally fall ill since arriving. Maybe it had to do with her body being free of the power cap during the draft, allowing for the two bloods within her to start fighting again like they had before.]

Rarely among the purebloods. [The Auria were the side she preferred to associate with, if she had to choose.] It's something that happens more often among the hybrids like me...

[voice | filtered because rainbow sprinkles would make it even better]

[imatreenow]

[Of course it happens to the hybrids...doesn't everything awful fall upon those caught in between? Bitter anger bubbles up in his voice.]

That isn't fair. You already had to be brought into the world as something nobody wants, isn't that difficult enough? To have a sickness that goes with it...

[voice | filtered because this has to be obtained no matter what]

[seiriald]

Yeah... [She wondered about it a lot, sometimes, occasionally being angry toward her parents for doing this to her. Why did it only have to be her, and her own twin brother not be affected by the same ailment? But whenever she thought that way it only made her sad in the end, because they were trying to protect her all along. And she had to make a safe home for what was left of her family.]

But sometimes... I think it gives us a special strength that no one else is allowed to have but us....

[voice | filtered because this is the most important quest of our lives]

[imatreenow]

What do you mean? A power that can only be possessed by others like you?

[voice | filtered because we're about to go off in harmony harmony oh live~]

[seiriald]

Like us, I mean... They can never understand, right?

[voice | filtered because aaaaaaalwaaaaays I want to beeee with youuuu~]

[imatreenow]

[....Oh. Realizing he was taking it too literally, he feels a bit...well, herpaderp.]

...Right. [A nod, as he draws his knees closer to his chest.] Nobody could ever understand everything we've been through unless they've gone through it themselves. That's why we need each other... We need someone who understands.

[voice | filtered because and make belieeeeeeeeeve with youuuu~ /punts LJ]

[seiriald]

Yes, that's why we need each other exactly... [She gives a small, somewhat tired smile. As much as she loved the people back home, and liked some of the people her in Luceti... No one understood like Mithos did.]

I'm happy I know you, Mithos...

[voice | filtered because /SETS LJ AFLAME]

[imatreenow]

...Me too. I'm...happy that I met you. [What's this? A smile? It's faint, but genuine. Because it's true - he's happy to have someone whom he can call a friend. As much as he had insisted that Martel was the only person he needed, in truth he was very lonely. He hated it so much.

Quiet for a moment, and then-] Is there anything I can do to help? Your sickness, I mean.

[voice | filtered because /ROASTS THE GOAT WITH IT]

[seiriald]

[She would really like to see him smile, it would make her so very happy if she knew he was doing it now. It wouldn't be long now, would it? Before he found out she was blind...

At the very least she could hear the sincerity in his voice. That much tells her enough.] It'd be nice... to have someone to talk to while I'm confined to bed for the next week or so...