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[outofoffice]

Who: sensitIV + friends + enemies
Where: sensitIV
When: Day 447, post-game

[ what the fuck. ]

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[shatteredhourglass]

[Nyx is feeling strangely disinclined to lock himself up alone in his room, even though his head is telling him that's the best way of coping after That. So he can be found hanging around in the communal areas of the dorm, kind of off to the side of where everyone else is laying around suffering but within view.

He's probably not okay, given how obviously hard he's making an attempt to look okay. But hey, he didn't have it half as bad as everyone else! There's that, at least!]

[bondsofsuffering]

[After fussing over Venti and Eirene-]

...Would you like to rest, or would you be up for helping me with something?

[shatteredhourglass]

What something?

[bondsofsuffering]

Venti wanted something to eat made with lots of vegetables, so I was thinking of making vegetable stew.

[shatteredhourglass]

Should I go get those vegetables, then?

[SURELY IZANAGI DOES NOT MEAN HELP IN THE KITCHEN.]

[bondsofsuffering]

Already got them. I was thinking you could help me chop them up - if you're feeling up to it. But if you'd rather rest...

[shatteredhourglass]

...

...

...they won't be nice and even or anything...

[The thought of "helping" and making everything worse is terrifying but Izanagi has found the secret override of phrasing it like "if you say no it's because you'd rather be resting than helping".]

[bondsofsuffering]

That's alright. Luckily, it's a pretty forgiving recipe. I'll show you how to do it, too.

So? Are you in?

[shatteredhourglass]

If you're REALLY sure it won't matter...

[bondsofsuffering]

Sure I'm sure. C'mon.

[Heading over to the kitchen to begin pulling out veggies.]

[shatteredhourglass]

[Well now that Nyx is here in the kitchen standing around awkwardly and watching the vegetables in question come out he's starting to get Nervous. Like, visibly. One boy has Issues, okay.]

[bondsofsuffering]

[-?]

You okay?

[shatteredhourglass]

I'm fine.

[Said maybe a little too quickly, but he's said it enough times today that he can't go back on it NOW.]

[outofoffice]

[ From the kotatsu: ]

Nyyyxxxx, come heeeere . . .

[shatteredhourglass]

?

What?

[Nyx heads over to go sit ... by the Kotatsu, just so Venti doesn't have to raise his voice.]

[outofoffice]

You were very far away!

This is better, though . . .

[shatteredhourglass]

I was right there...

[He'll settle in to sit properly where he is, though, even if he's keeping his legs outside the kotatsu.]

[outofoffice]

[ This is improvement. The Nyx must be approached like a skittish cat. ]

Still, at least you'll get some warmth from the kotatsu this way.

[shatteredhourglass]

[Correct.]

I'm not really cold right now, though?

[He isn't fresh out of that winter nightmare of a garden which serves to discourage visitors to his room, at least.]

[outofoffice]

But it's nice even when it's not cold, right?

[forgottenmercy]

[at least Persephone is humming soothingly from where he is sitting at the kotatsu.]

[shatteredhourglass]

[Thank goodness for that. Truly, he is blessed. Even the worst of worst days can be improved by this. Hell was worth it. A+++++++++++ 9999999 stars would do it all again for just the briefest glimpse of Persephone sitting at a cutesy kotatsu humming.]

[forgottenmercy]

Would you, ah, like to come sit with me? Or would you, ah, prefer to stay over there...?

[shatteredhourglass]

Huh? I'll go over there??

[Nyx doesn't seem to quite understand why he's being asked this all of a sudden, but also his reply can only be one thing so it doesn't matter that he doesn't know. It still comes out promptly enough.]

[forgottenmercy]

[and will wait for Nyx to come over and settle in before he starts singing, soft and sweet.]