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Who: Eichi & Anyone!
Where: Various places around the temple or outside!
When: 9/29 and on!
Rating PG?
What: Eichi gets restless and gets up to things.

A. Miscommunication

[Eichi has been spending a lot of time inside the temple. It's not as if he can get out much. Everyone else was wandering off, exploring, getting sick and dealing with it— but Eichi was just left with his own usual illness, and the sad feeling of being left alone.

So, he's seen the servants around, doing helpful things like cooking and cleaning, and he's even asked them favors. But today? Today, it seems he's not being heard. He's been speaking in the hall with this mist man for some time now, and the poor thing is just sort of... facelessly staring back, making gestures with its hands to try and communicate that Eichi's requests just aren't possible, or make no sense.]

Is it that you don't understand? Ah, it's difficult to know if you can really all hear me, when I can't see your faces at all... But you see, this is a special type of tea that I've been missing. Is there nothing similar? There must be a variety of some sort, yet every time I request "tea" it's always the same thing...

[Who knows what he's asking for in specifics, but now he's going on to ask for elaborate tea cups too, and someone should just help free this mist servant.]

B. He shouldn't be here

[So. What to do when you're a sickly boy bored out of his mind, lonely, without a roommate and with no Proper variety of tea to enjoy? It's probably not the right answer to just wander out into the woods or by the lake, but that's exactly what Eichi is doing. He looks like someone who shouldn't be out here at all, wandering in his school uniform, pale and frail as he is, but he holds himself tall and proud, like he belongs.

There are a handful of things you can run into Eichi getting up to:

i. Surrounded by a small handful of nymphs, he has his softly glowing hand held up to a tree that's suffered a little from the growth spurt of those trees surrounding it. Competition for food is hard! The nymphs seem pleased with Eichi doing whatever it is he's doing, even if Eichi does look considerably more pale after a few seconds, sighing out as his glow fades.

ii. Facing off a single wyvern, Eichi is holding out his hand with great interest, trying to approach it. Eichi doesn't have a single shiny thing visible right now, so the thing doesn't look interested at all, and maybe even a little threatened. As he reaches further just as someone is approaching, the wyvern swipes out at him, clawing the back of his hand and taking off. Eichi is left rejected and with a sad little bleeding scratch on the back of his left hand.

iii. By the lake, Eichi is soaking wet and crouched near the water. There are at least two mermaids in the water, looking at him with pleased expressions as he sings them a soft little song. So, they certainly didn't yank him in. Maybe you saw what happened just moments earlier— how he slipped and fell right in and they helped him out. Or maybe his voice caused you to come over? Maybe these mermaids weren't ever as nice to you and you're jealous. Whatever it is, he's here, he's soaking wet, and if he doesn't get some help with that soon, he'll probably die or something. He's weak.

On the other hand, towards the tail end of all of these adventures, he's starting to look even worse for wear. A figure wobbling, stopping to support himself against a tree, muttering little pep talks to himself. He doesn't want to stop here. He's tired of this body of his. How long can he expect to be held back while everyone else looks around?]

C. It's like Goldilocks

[It turns out that wandering around in your boredom and loneliness can lead a sickly body to exhaustion. The same exhaustion that had kept him in his own room for so long. But now, he's been in the middle of exploring the temple, and he's not anywhere near his own room. What's the harm in entering a random room and crawling into the bed? It looked so nice and cozy, and if he had tried to take another step, he would have certainly passed out.

So, welcome back to your room! Eichi Tenshouin is in your bed, whether you know who he is or not. He kind of looks like a sleeping angel, even if how pale he is might be a little alarming. It's normal for him, really. He just needs to sleep it off, probably. He even helped himself under the covers... He looks terribly comfortable, like this. So, what are you going to do, now that you've found a stranger in your bed?]

Comments

B2

[brodakota]

[While he does have a considerable amount of patience, North is not the type to sit around. He'd rather get to know the area he's in, especially if it's a changing landscape. Plus it gets him out of his vine infested room, that he really needs to move out of.

He's in his armour, mostly because he hasn't quite acquired the right sort of clothes for this place and because it makes him feel just a bit safer. This place is still pretty new, and weird. He'd rather be safe than sorry.

He finds Eichi's clearing just as the wyvern strikes and rushes in without a lot of thought.]

Eichi! You okay?

[finethanks]

Ow?!

[He's so surprised by the wyvern actually attacking him that he's not sure what to do. He clutches his own hand as he pulls it back, and the thing, seeing North, scurries and quickly flies to leave.

Eichi is left staring stunned after it before he turns his eyes back to his new company.]

North-san? [He looks back down to his own hand at the question, frowning at the blood smeared across the back of his hand from his own grip. The actual injury is just a long scratch, deep enough to bleed but not much else.]

Those claws were quite sharp, is all. I'm certain even someone like me should be fine after that. Still, I wonder what it was that I did wrong...

[brodakota]

I couldn't quite tell from where I was. I just saw it snap...

Maybe it's a territory thing? I can't say I know too much about those creatures.

[He looks a little more relaxed though. If it's just a cut, he can handle that.]

We should probably get it bandaged though.

[finethanks]

I see... that's true, isn't it? Wild animals can become territorial. They're unpredictable in general, so I suppose there's a number of reasons.

[Thank goodness it's just a cut, because any more, and Eichi could probably literally die. He's that weak.]

Do you have a bandage on you, North-san? I don't intend to go back, just yet. I grew so tired of staying indoors, and there were no guards keeping me in, so I came out here to take a look around, you see.

[brodakota]

You know, I think I do. Just a sec.

[It takes a minute to find where he put them. He's not exactly carrying a lot of ammunition around anymore, so he figured he might as well make those compartments useful. Especially after he ran into Zack.]

Here, let me take a look.

Why would there be guards keeping you in?

[finethanks]

[He holds out his hand, thin and fragile as the rest of him. The cut is bleeding, if only because he bleeds so easily. It's pretty harmless, as an injury.]

Well, I'm not always allowed to leave, due to my health. "Stay indoors," my parents would say, but it's incredibly exhausting to stay cooped up for so long. When they realized that I would often sneak out against their orders, they began to place guards at each of the doors in the house, or in the hospital, too.

Of course, there were still methods of sneaking past them. [He smiles as he says that, as if he's still being completely proper, even when he's citing that he's a troublemaker.]

[brodakota]

[On the one hand, North can kind of understand the overprotectiveness that comes with having a kid in poor health. It's similar to how things were with Theta and his anxiousness after all, though guards seems rather extreme. (Or maybe Theta was fine sticking close to North)

He'll start cleaning the cut before bandaging it.]

Sounds like it could be a rough time.

How often did you sneak out?