Saturday (10/18), afternoon, outside Mikal and Aidan's room

[scathachtwins]

Her face pale and anxious, mouth set in a firm line, Valla strides quickly down the hall of the boys' wing of Whiteoak, as if intent on some mission.

Reaching Aidan and Mikal's door, she raps rapidly on the smooth wood. Dark Mother, please let them be in...

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[michael_malone]

The faint sound of music drift from within.

"Door's open, come in!" Mikal calls cheerfully.

He's sitting crosslegged on his bed, strumming his guitar.

[scathachtwins]

Sprawled on his bed with a paperback, Aidan looks up as his sister enters the room. "Valla, what...?" he begins.

[scathachtwins]

She shuts the door, cutting her brother off. "Have the two of you seen Ailan lately?" She blows out a breath, her deep blue eyes dark with worry. "He looked like shit Thursday."

[michael_malone]

Mikal frowns, and thinks about it. "I saw him just a couple of days ago. He said he'd been on a hike, and gave me a fossilized fern that he'd picked up for me along the trip. Really cool, by the way. I didn't think he looked all that bad. We hugged and everything- it was a touching moment. Though you know, now that I think of it.. he did look like maybe he hadn't been sleeping. We were talking with Spindle and Dain... about dreams and nightmares and the like."

[scathachtwins]

"Nightmares..." Aidan rolls over on one elbow, looking thoughtful. "He's been having them ever since I've known him." He doesn't add that he knows this because he and the other sidhe youth spent so much time in the wee hours of the morning, both of them too rattled by what haunted their dreams to sleep.

[scathachtwins]

Aidan chews his lower lip, then mutters a curse as his teeth hit a sore spot from the previous week's fight. "And Ailan had some pretty awful dreams that night, too...." he looks thoughtful. He looks at his sister and his roommate, and then adds. "And, okay, mine weren't all that great either."

[michael_malone]

Mikal frowns. "And with Samhain just around the corner, I have a feeling things are going to get much worse before they get any better."

[scathachtwins]

Valla mmmms at that. "Yeah...crap." She eyes the items scattered on Aidan's desk to try to take her mind off things. A plastic bag from the drugstore in Brownell catches her eye; curious, she peeks inside. "K-Y Jelly?" she asks, looking at her brother with a mischievous smile.

[scathachtwins]

"Hey!" Aidan rolls quickly off the bed, making a grab for the bag.