[Tenth Stanza]: [Accidental Audio]

[eclipsedonmyoji]

-ke. ... please come out?

[silence, followed by knocking]

It's been days, Dai.

[silence]

They want to talk to you...

I know.

Then come out? When was the last time you even ate anything?

[silence]

[sound of a hand slamming in to the door]

Fine! Be stubborn then!

[click]

Comments

[lotsoftitles]

I can pick the lock if you're going to force me to make you eat.

[eclipsedonmyoji]

I'm not hungry, Keiji... my migraine won't go away...

[lotsoftitles]

Have you been eating or drinking?

[eclipsedonmyoji]

Water... I can't keep anything else down...

[lotsoftitles]

Soup?

[eclipsedonmyoji]

[No verbal response, just a whiny 'uhun...']

[lotsoftitles]

Should I just get a doctor?

[eclipsedonmyoji]

Wouldn't be able to help...

[a long silence, and the bed squeaks, followed by the door opening a crack a second later, Daisuke looking rumpled and pale]

... you can come in. Just don't turn the light on.

[lotsoftitles]

[And he's kneeling on the floor, with a hair pin, a tray of soup and orange juice beside him. Puts the hair pin in his hair and grabs the tray.]

Find with darkness.

[eclipsedonmyoji]

[Dai shuffles back to the bed and flops over on it]

You didn't have to pick the lock...

[lotsoftitles]

You might not have opened up.

[Closes the door behind him and walks over to set the tray on the nightstand.]

This isn't normal, you know.

[eclipsedonmyoji]

'shappened before...

[buries his face in the pillow]

It's a backlash. I brought it on myself by getting so upset...

[lotsoftitles]

Backlash? From what? For getting mad?

[eclipsedonmyoji]

[muffled]

You remember what happened with my nightmare, right? I'm always on the edge of losing control, even with my training. When I get emotional it's hard to keep control, so I force it, which usually results in my own energy lashing out against me.

It hurts like hell.

[lotsoftitles]

[Frowns at that.]

That's...worrying.

[eclipsedonmyoji]

Doesn't happen often...

It's not like I asked for this, you know. I was just a random dormant gene in a long dead family line... most people in the Omni don't even know what an Onmyoji is...