[038-- Video/Action]

[bakaitoukid]

[This time, Kaito is recording from the Pokemon Center, sprawled out on one of the plush chairs in the lobby and looking extremely contemplative. He doesn't speak when he first turns on the Pokegear; he's too busy staring at his wrist, which is dotted with tiny little red bite marks. Kei and Biz are soundly asleep in his lap, and once Kaito is done

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[foolishwren]

[The Heather that shows up on the screen... is possibly the most bedraggled-looking Heather that Kaito has EVER SEEN. Except when she showed up after two weeks in the woods. That was probably worse. But needless to say, her hair is everywhere, there's enormous, puffy circles under her eyes (which are wide and sort of glazed, giving her a shell-shocked look), and she's white as a sheet.]

Ao-who?

... What happened?

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[bakaitoukid]

[whoa Heather, you look--]

Aoko. But forget about that, 'what happened' is a question I should be asking you.

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[foolishwren]

[BLANK STARE.]

......

..... I don't know.

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[bakaitoukid]

[............ STARING BACK]

Creepy, isn't it?

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[foolishwren]

[THEY CAN JUST SORT OF... STARE AT EACH OTHER FOR AWHILE. God knows Heather's brain is so fried right now that she doesn't have much energy to do anything ELSE.]

I just... like. I woke up, and like-- .... that was the worst fucking dream I have EVER had.

[AND THAT WAS SAYING SOMETHING.]

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[bakaitoukid]

You really think it was a dream? [asking curiously, because... while it feels like a dream, he has no idea how to explain the BITE MARKS on his wrist]

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[foolishwren]

[She has not blinked once. One eye is twitching.]

Kaito, I was being chased around my workplace by the Kool-Aid Man.

And then there was a dog with headphones.

And then I think there were naked people.

If that wasn't a dream, I was on drugs.

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[bakaitoukid]

[... DOT DOT DOT. Well that's one point for the dream team]

Or you were hallucinating again thanks to the ghost Pokemon.

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[foolishwren]

Kaito, I KNOW what my hallucinations look like. They're not like dreams.

And the Kool-Aid Man is NEVER in them.

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[bakaitoukid]

Oi oi, maybe this time the ghost Pokemon were trying to make us hallucinate weird things instead of nightmares!

[... yeah he's got nothing]

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[foolishwren]

[Heather just... groooaaans and lifts her hands to her face, rubbing it fretfully.]

Ugh, I don't KNOW... I just... I don't KNOW.

What... what all happened to YOU?

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[bakaitoukid]

I don't know! [he is clearly frustrated] The only thing I remember dreaming about was Aoko and her... stupid Eevee that bit me.

[holding up his wrist to show off his injury] Even if it was just a dream, it doesn't explain how I got this.

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[foolishwren]

[She stops rubbing her eyes long enough to look at him, brows furrowed.]

Mmmh.... maybe you uh... maybe something bit you while you were asleep, and you felt it and dreamed about it?

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[bakaitoukid]

[he lowers his wrist and sighs] Maybe. I dunno. It's just too weird.

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[foolishwren]

THAT it is...

Ugh... I just... augh, I feel like someone wrung my brain out and threw it in a hamper like a sock.

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[bakaitoukid]

You kinda look like you've been wrung out and thrown into a hamper.