1/11 training and breakfast

[citta]

[ As last minute prep for the dungeon, everybody has been called to get together for a training session during midnight at Lockdown, with promise of a light breakfast at the clubhouse afterwards and the suggestion that people take it easy during the day before they split up into their respective teams and head to the castle and the mountains.

Training is largely done in the school shrine, on the second floor where there's wide empty space without the maze to account for, where you can practice tactics together, or take on the Minato challenge where he has Messiah blast you apart in half a second and then immediately heals you and asks if you want to go again.

Breakfast at the clubhouse is split between western and traditional styles, whether you crave fluffy pancakes, or are more of a miso soup and grilled fish on rice sort of person. If you want anything in particular for lunch, Kido is on lunch duty and promises to make whatever you want, so long as you go out to the store and bring the ingredients back.

Thanks to everybody's efforts so far during the month, whether it's interacting with the townspeople or talking with the mayor or donating gemstones to the mountain shrine, the effects can already be seen around town, with the townspeople less wary of the Persona users, allowing them to purchase what they want in the stores if they want to have their own supplies to take into the dungeon later.

Now go out there and get along and learn to work together or is2g ]

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[yokeye]

[She keeps changing things. He's getting more confused. Can more Arcanas be added for the other real people? The Solar System? The Infinite Space? The Vacuum?

His thoughts are overloading. Toki twitches a little, and collapses to the floor; his brain needs to restart. He should not have come today.]

[parhellia]

[ Oh. Ala catches up to Toki and turns him over so he's lying on his side. ]

I forgot about the reverse Arcanas again, so my math is wrong. There should be forty-eight.

[ Toki, wake up... She'll wait patiently until he does, because she needs to correct her math. ]

[yokeye]

[Can Ala wait three hours? If she does, Toki will wake up, but he won't make any effort to get off the floor.]

[parhellia]

[ Toki sure is getting a lot of naps in today. Three hours later, he is still on his side on the floor, and Ala is curled up behind him so she can prop him up so he doesn't fall over. She's moved on from tarot cards to trying to get through one of Toki's romance novels, but she's having a tough time with it. ]

[yokeye]

[He was awake for three days straight. He needs many naps. Once Toki does move, it's to turn towards Ala and try to find her hand... to kiss it, because he thinks she's Rei, watching over him as she tends to do.]

[parhellia]

[ Sorry, Toki, but this isn't your sweetheart. When Toki moves, Ala's forced to sit up too or else she'll flop over onto her back, watching Toki reach out for... something. Not knowing what that is, she does take his hand, but keeps them on her lap. ]

Are you still half asleep, Toki?

[yokeye]

Ala!

[Toki is definitely awake now. He pulls his hands away.]

I um, yes! Sleeping too much!

[parhellia]

[ Ala laughs, putting the book away so she can flop over onto her back and stretch her arms high up over her head, as far as she can reach. ]

Mm~ Humans sure need a lot of sleep! Cats sleep about twenty hours a day? How much are you getting, Toki?

[yokeye]

[Sometimes, Toki thinks it would be nice to be a cat.]

I don't know. I just go to bed when Rei does, but I don't always sleep?

[He didn't get a fancy phone that will tell him what time of day it is when he gets up or goes to bed. He has no idea what time it is at any given moment, or usually even what day. Time is meaningless without numbers, and he's never thought to ask anyone to keep him informed of such things.]

[parhellia]

[ The cat life is where it's at, yeah. Toki is already close to it, going to bed whenever and sleeping however long, if that's what's going on here. ]

So you just... lie there? And do what?

[yokeye]

Nothing. Just... lie there.

[And think about random things. The future, the past, the meaning of life, is there a meaning...]

[parhellia]

[ Lie there and... do what?? The concept of doing nothing is kind of weird; thinking would have made more sense as an answer. ]

Sounds boring~ If you're sleepy, you should sleep, but if you're not, why not just go out and play?

[yokeye]

I...

[It's hard to explain. That contentment of just lying with Rei, even if he's not tired. Listening to her breathe and feeling her warmth against him. His brain may be awake, but he physically never wants to leave that spot.]

Sometimes... your body's tired, but your brain isn't?

[parhellia]

...Like when you're sick with fever.

[ All you want to do is be unconscious, but you're mind's racing at 234059839093 thoughts per second, and you just can't calm down. Or like the panic from before where your mind won't stop and all you want to do is lie down and cry.

These aren't great experiences to associate with lying next to the person you love. ]

[yokeye]

Um... I guess it's kind of like that!

[He can see the connection.]

[parhellia]

That sounds miserable~ Shuuya always just slept while he's tired, so it's kinda weird imagining somebody lying there doing nothing. It's a big day today, though, so you'd better get into a real bed and stock up on those dream hours!

[ Up we go, off the floor! ]

[yokeye]

[A real bed sounds good. He'd forgotten where he was. On the floor by the kotatsu in the clubhouse. After breakfast.]

Yes, time for bed!

[He gets up slowly; it's such an effort. But the comfort of a bed calls to him. Or the couch if he can only make it that far. There's also the possibility that he'll fall asleep in a snowbank on the way to the black cat house.]

[parhellia]

[ Ala trusts him to make it just one house over all by himself, so she leaves him to freeze to death outside until later in the afternoon when Kido has to search for him and dig him out of the snow to go grocery shopping with her and Rei. ]