14 True King [Accidental Video]

[eatingurshoes]

[The video turns on to one Ling Yao, laying out on the floor of a shop that looks to be stocked with various cooking utensils. His limbs are stretched out wide as if attempting to make a snow angel minus the snow, and he has several pillows beneath and surrounding him. He's staring up at the ceiling with intense concentration, and after a moment,

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[callim_causa]

What on earth are you counting?

[Video]

[eatingurshoes]

[Give him a moment to try to remember.]

Maybe ... the cracks in the ceiling.

[Video]

[callim_causa]

That's quite a lot of cracks.

{Talking helps keep his mind off of just how tired he's getting. This is going to be a bad week.}

[Video]

[eatingurshoes]

I probably counted some of them more than once. [Understatement of the year.]

[Video]

[callim_causa]

Hmm. I suppose that could happen. Perhaps you should start in one corner and work your way across the room.

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[eatingurshoes]

[Hm. Hadn't he started out doing something like that? Well, if at first you don't succeed... keep going at it until you get what you want.]

One, two, three, four, five, six...

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[callim_causa]

{Saguru's going to join in the counting, saying the numbers along with the other boy, until it gets so mind numbing that maybe, hopefully, he'll be able to sleep.}

Seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven...

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[eatingurshoes]

[That's the plan, Saguru~]

Twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen...

[Video]

[callim_causa]

{This could go on for a very long time...}

Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one...

[Video]

[eatingurshoes]

[And for the sake of our sanity, why don't we just assume it did. x3]

[Video]

[callim_causa]

{Brilliant idea}