003. [video;] headache before heartache

[heavenly_home]

[The position of the camera gives a nice view of the bed, the nightstand, and fluttering curtain from the window. It's a normal bedroom, neat and tidy. Lighting isn't the best, it is nighttime and the streetlamp through the window cast more shadows than illumination. Muffled voices can be heard from behind the door just out of sight. Two women, and

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Text, so she can get to it after that decidedly much needed rest.

[sotobas_lot]

Tendou-san, did something happen?

[video;] because after rest she regains her memories and won't be in a spot to respond-- that okay?

[heavenly_home]

[It is hard to read his words, but she knows the person in that icon.] Ozaki-sensei... I, have a headache.

...it is worse than the others. It hasn't gone away.

[video, too] Just fine; it was his way ot being polite, that's all.

[sotobas_lot]

Ah.... Tendou-san...

[His lips press into a thin line; this is serious enough for him to put his cigarette out in the nearby ashtray to really think for a minute.

If these headaches are related to a psychological issue, particularly a trauma...]

...Did anything happen today?

[video forever;] o7 Ozaki is so considerate!

[heavenly_home]

[Kasumi struggles to think of any happening out of the ordinary. No, there was nothing, she'd spent the whole day cooking and with family. Though she had found that strange object in the cabinet...

A sharp pain in her temple brings on a wince.] No, not-- not anything unusual.

[video forever] So considerate he's going to go ahead and press for info now that he has her online.

[sotobas_lot]

I see... Nothing, huh?

You said it isn't going away. When did this one start, and how long to they usually last?

all the better to /learn more about/ help her condition

[heavenly_home]

[It is so hard to concentrate, but he needs answers to his questions. She will do her best.] Not this long, perhaps fifteen minutes? No longer. It's been... an hour, I think. Now, that is. I have taken medicine but it has not... helped, as yet.

He's actually a bit of a jerk when you get to know him.

[sotobas_lot]

Tell me what you've been doing for the past two hours, then.

Eh, who isn't?

[heavenly_home]

I was cleaning the kitchen cabinets and... was nearly done when it started. It was faint, in the beginning but it seemed to, build? Such would be a word. Before this, I had done laundry. When it became too much my younger sister suggested I rest.

Laaaate.

[sotobas_lot]

Those are your usual duties, I assume...

[Nobody else seems to be suffering these kind of effects, and viruses tend to hit more than one person at a time by nature... It's possible she has some affliction or medical issue her family hasn't informed her of. He can't think of any reason to keep her in the dark, but it's impossible to shake the possibility that it is community related. She has friends here. Not a single one of them seems to have found the truth beneath it? Or, they're also hiding it... No, no, no. That's straying too far into paranoid thinking. It's making an excuse for his inability to identify the problem. Without tests to perform, without even being certain of her world's workings or special complications. Furthermore, if it's related to a community where the rules of worlds are addled and jumbled at some yet unpredictable convenience...]

...At any rate, sorry for disturbing you. Get some rest for now.

Not a problem : )

[heavenly_home]

Oh, no... thank you for your help, Ozaki-sensei. I appreciate your concern. If it is still here later, may I contact you? Later, tomorrow, as such...

[sotobas_lot]

Aa, I'll be here. Be sure to check in.

... Ah and, that is... Take care.

[heavenly_home]

I will. Thank you, again...

...good night.