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[dayeverlasting]

[ Hinata feels strangely light-headed, but warmer than he had the moment before. His fingertips are still stiff and numb, his gait stumbling, but somehow his back feels sun-warmed and the breeze is gentle against his face. But that's impossible. Last he remembers, it was night and--

Night.He drops to his knees, clutching at the diagonal slash

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[fortifyingnight]

[This Night doesn't come till much later, when Hinata has had a chance to bandage himself up. There were others ways he differed from the familiar the man had seen before. He hadn't taken possession of Hinata's body to gain the appearance that he had today, he'd been able to create a duplicate form. Since they'd met, he'd also defeated Pazuzu and given Monaka the safe life she deserves.

He'd long since accepted the death of his former friend, so when he runs into his virtual duplicate, Night freezes.]

.... [ Hinata's body had been cremated, unless he was a ghost now there was no way he should be standing in front of him...! Which... if that were true, it was his job to exterminate the other....]

[dayeverlasting]

[ One would think that, as an Exorcist, Hinata would know better than to go gallivanting around after learning that he's very much supposed to be deceased. But he's hungry, and he swore off cafeteria food from True Cross forever upon graduation. (He breaks that oath now and again, but near-death experiences give him a voracious appetite so he wants to treat himself to something nice.)

He figured he'd go and find some kind of restaurant, have himself a nice meal, and meet up with Night again after.

For a second when he first sees someone else with his face, he jumps and thinks that he's been caught sneaking out of bed. Then he realizes the look he's being given isn't quite right.

He really needs to stop leaving the house unarmed, dammit. ]

Um-- Can I help you?

[fortifyingnight]

[So long as he isn't eating souls then he's still on the good side.

Night stiffens almost immediately at the question, shaking himself back into gear.]

Yeah, you can tell me why you have Hinata's body.

[dayeverlasting]

...Well, that's pretty simple. I'm Hinata, and it's my body.

Is there a reason in particular you also have my face? [ Since he's already been through this conversation with Night, unless Night went and conked himself on the head or otherwise contracted short-term amnesia in the last hour, this can't be his familiar. Er. Former familiar.

This is all going to take a lot of getting used to. ]

[fortifyingnight]

Because-[It was the only one he wanted to copy. He wanted to be strong and he wished to be human. It wasn't a far stretch for him to take a form modled after a person he viewed in high esteem.

People were far less scrutinizing once he'd lost his quadrupedic appearance.]

--I became an exorcist. [And a renowned one at that.]

[dayeverlasting]

...what did you say your name was?

[ Hinata could feign some semblance of intelligence now and again, and he wasn't about to go supplying information to someone who might actually be a doppelganger. After all, that'd just be one more completely impossible happening of an already impossible day. Hinata can't seem to write off anything as an impossibility anymore. ]

[fortifyingnight]

Night.