[ power sus, and by sus we mean sniffing around the entire house with both of her cats at her heels. unfortunately, polaris is also curious, and has been following on his belly as power prowls the house with her two feline comrades, pretending to hide when he's spotted by burying himself in a pillow or slinking behind furniture. unfortunately, he is too big to actually hide so it's all for naught.
in this moment, his tail wags as he scrambles behind the lounge while kaeya is reading, beating the furniture sharply so like. what's the point of being sneaky? who knows. daemon does not care.
Power is... well she's stupid but she can be fairly perceptive, so I decided to just roll for it. And she got a 15, so she actually just notices Kaeya just about immediately apparently, damn.
She just stops in her weird sus house sniffing and stops. And just walks over to Kaeya's hiding spot to call him out with zero delay because she's not capable of holding back, she Must Call Out. ]
[ love that for her. kaeya's head pokes up, one eye fixed on her before he chuckles. polaris props his paws up on the arm of the lounge, tail wagging. he closes the book with a quick snap. ]
Oh, hello Miss Power. Just reading something I picked up in the market.
[ here's the unfortunate copy of tusk love that kingsley was selling. ]
[ he'll hold it closer for her to have a look. blue lady has horns! incredible! ]
Why? It's comfortable and there's plenty of pillows.
[ he glances at polaris, who is just. flopped under a pillow, tail still wagging. his eyes turn to look at power briefly before he licks his nose. kaeya shrugs. ]
[ into the nest power climbs! kaeya nudges some blankets up for her perusal, some pillows, there's plenty out here thanks home. once she's settled, he'll look over the back of the book before answering. ]
Not everyone does, but that's alright. More for me, you know. But I suppose I find them thrilling. There's tense emotion in a romance, and usually some wild misunderstanding that causes chaos before the two parties are able to make up. Sometimes they even fall in love during an adventure.
[ kaeya this is a smut book, but... like good on you i guess for tempering this down to be tasteful question mark. ]
[ sleep? sleep is nice. blissful dark sleep until he rolls over and feels something wet? warm? a little thick? he frowns and cracks open his one eye to see that... the bed is very much covered in blood. he shoots up in an instant to see who he's laying with and--
there is power.
and his eye goes very, very wide. steeling his voice, he stays steady as best he can, shifting as he sits up further. ]
[ Joke's on him, Power normally likes being covered in blood. This time, it's a bit of an exception though. She blinks awake very slowly, not fully understanding why she feels so sluggish. ]
...Oh, 'tis you, Blue...
[ Guh, she's trying to get up. The blood just appears to be... simply welling forth? It seems the worst around her stomach area, but it truly just somehow manages to keep coming from everywhere from her neck-down all the way to above her stomach. Whatever original injury this effect is mimicking, it was a big one. ]
[ the fact that she recognizes him is good?? and she's not... screaming in pain, she just seems sluggish? the blood loss probably. he feels the sag of his own shoulders and he grunts, moving to carefully examine now. he'll help get her sitting at least? or will try to? it's pure instinct that keeps him from touching the wounds proper at least until he realizes he has to stop the bleeding somehow. ]
Power--I'm going to temporarily bandage this and...
[ --until he tears a few strips off the sheets and tries to sort of help staunch the bleeding and apparently this sets off that wonderful, incredibly painful effect of the week between the both of them????
[ God this sucks but at least we, as people, don't suck. The life of being beautiful and confident but also being totally beaten up: the Fifth Week. ]
Ugh... what is this...!
[ What a THING to wake up to, right? She's struggling a little to sit up and put her hands on her front, just trying to... well, she doesn't know what to do, actually. ]
[ he'll help her sit up though, get an arm around her and get her upright. here we go... ]
But this is one of my old wounds, I...
[ he's going to be a little more careful about? bedsheet bandaging her until they can maybe make it to where there are more bandages and someone can explain what the fuck is happening. ]
Does it hurt? There's so much blood, Power... how...?
[ She glances up at Kaeya, clearly inconvenienced by this whole thing, and then down at herself. Old wounds? Power isn't one to get hurt, especially not this miserably. She's survived everything with little more than a scratch or two, and not even any of the injuries that Kishibe loaded on her for 'training' were this extreme and bad. It would be a nuisance, but she may just rather prefer her throat slit again than whatever this is. What could this possibly even be?
...
And then her blood runs cold (haha pun intended) and she looks a little pale, fingers gripping in Kaeya's shirt a bit. ]
U-um... it's a lot so I don't know...
[ DOES this stuff hurt? Well, her injury is kind of in a weird and chaotic middle ground, after all. By God's grace, she doesn't seem to be bleeding profusely and continuously at least -- on the tail end of her effect for the time being, until it starts again later I guess. ]
[ as he's grabbed, he blinks a moment, and then nods, sets a hand on her wrist and very carefully takes a breath. this. sucks. a lot and he can see how she's paled, just gives her a very firm squeeze to her wrist before slowly swinging his legs off the edge of the bed. ]
One thing at a time. Let's get you cleaned up as much as we can, that way we can perhaps see the wounds better?
[ frowning because his leg slides on blood. oof. gross feeling. ]
Barbatos it's freezing in here--the bed's ice... [ he mumbles, slowly stepping onto the floor. his expression goes a little hard as he shakes his head before turning to her and offering her a reassuring look. ] It's so much blood, Power, how do you feel? Are you dizzy at all?
[ he's going to prop her up with some pillows and hobble his way over to find a bowl and fill it with some water, grabbing some of the warm towels too. nice. ]
[ Yeah, it's gross. Hopefully they can wash all that shit off before it gets cold, too... elsewise, ew. Power is less disturbed by it than most for obvious reasons, but even she doesn't really care for cold blood if she can avoid it.
She nods once, frowning. But all things considered, she seems fine? It is canonically possible for Power to have too much blood and she filled up so many bottles with blood before she actually passed out from anemia once. She's probably okay. For now, it seems it's less the volume of blood and more just how widespread it is. ]
I-if this is the new city effect, then 'tis terrible...
[ he's tucked a towel around his bad shoulder, the blood soaking into it slowly as he guides her through cleaning up all the gross blood. definitely don't want to let it get sticky. once she's suitably clean, or as clean as she's going to get considering the volume of blood around here, he's going to drape a warm, fluffy white robe for her that he's also plucked up from the bathroom.
even if it gets more blood on it later, it's the comfort that counts in the moment because he's still kind of shocked?? glad that she's... okay for the moment, though. ]
But that would mean that at the very least it's temporary. That we won't be like this for more than a week. Not that that's comforting... a bit perhaps.
[ a tired laugh, he'll very gently squeeze her shoulder. ]
We're all going to make quite the mess, aren't we? [ hucking a blanket into an icy hamper-looking thing. sorry room service. ]
[ they will absolutely be getting bloody. laundry is gonna be so pink in this hotel, and it's gonna be all our fault.
he's just gonna drape them both in blanket capes. it's cold and bloody, but whatever, the panic is still trying to hover and kaeya just sharply! waves it away. go away. we're busy. ]
We'll just have to watch out for one another a little harder than usual, hm? You come by here and we'll change bandages, and hopefully with enough regularity we'll survive this yet.
Especially you... all of that blood, Power... make sure you're eating a good amount too, hm? [ he looks up, around. ] Maybe... let's get dressed and find you some food. Lots of it. Bandages too. [ many... many bandages. ]
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w3, tuesdayish! before sleepover
in this moment, his tail wags as he scrambles behind the lounge while kaeya is reading, beating the furniture sharply so like. what's the point of being sneaky? who knows. daemon does not care.
polaris pokes his head out.
wolf peek. ]
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Power is... well she's stupid but she can be fairly perceptive, so I decided to just roll for it. And she got a 15, so she actually just notices Kaeya just about immediately apparently, damn.
She just stops in her weird sus house sniffing and stops. And just walks over to Kaeya's hiding spot to call him out with zero delay because she's not capable of holding back, she Must Call Out. ]
Blue! What are you doing?
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Oh, hello Miss Power. Just reading something I picked up in the market.
[ here's the unfortunate copy of tusk love that kingsley was selling. ]
What are you up to?
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I'm looking around, of course! This is a weird place to be reading.
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Why? It's comfortable and there's plenty of pillows.
[ he glances at polaris, who is just. flopped under a pillow, tail still wagging. his eyes turn to look at power briefly before he licks his nose. kaeya shrugs. ]
Did he cause you any trouble?
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Well excuse her, since Kaeya said it was comfortable, she's abandoning her current task and just sidling into the nest. ]
Who, your daemon? No, but I did see him looking. What's this book about?
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It's a love story!
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[ Thank u. She is settling in comfortably. ]
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[ polaris will crawl into his lap finally, shifting into his ermine form to create a little white ball by tucking his head and tail. ]
I like a good romance. I think the world needs more of them.
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[ Nobody shall be surprised, right. ]
What do you like about those?
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[ kaeya this is a smut book, but... like good on you i guess for tempering this down to be tasteful question mark. ]
w5, monday morning
there is power.
and his eye goes very, very wide. steeling his voice, he stays steady as best he can, shifting as he sits up further. ]
Miss Power? Wake up.
[ please wake up? ]
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Power is here! Good morning new roomie! The way she sleeps, she may as well be dead, no?
...
Except when Kaeya calls her name, her brows furrow a bit, and she grunts softly. ]
Ngh...
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Power, [ a little more insistent. he tugs at her pillow some! ] You're covered in blood.
[ please tell him it's not saturday yet. where the hell is it coming from, he might try to look and see, craning his head a bit. ]
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...Oh, 'tis you, Blue...
[ Guh, she's trying to get up. The blood just appears to be... simply welling forth? It seems the worst around her stomach area, but it truly just somehow manages to keep coming from everywhere from her neck-down all the way to above her stomach. Whatever original injury this effect is mimicking, it was a big one. ]
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Power--I'm going to temporarily bandage this and...
[ --until he tears a few strips off the sheets and tries to sort of help staunch the bleeding and apparently this sets off that wonderful, incredibly painful effect of the week between the both of them????
good morning??????? ]
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Ugh... what is this...!
[ What a THING to wake up to, right? She's struggling a little to sit up and put her hands on her front, just trying to... well, she doesn't know what to do, actually. ]
Was I attacked?!
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If you were, then we both were.
[ he'll help her sit up though, get an arm around her and get her upright. here we go... ]
But this is one of my old wounds, I...
[ he's going to be a little more careful about? bedsheet bandaging her until they can maybe make it to where there are more bandages and someone can explain what the fuck is happening. ]
Does it hurt? There's so much blood, Power... how...?
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[ She glances up at Kaeya, clearly inconvenienced by this whole thing, and then down at herself. Old wounds? Power isn't one to get hurt, especially not this miserably. She's survived everything with little more than a scratch or two, and not even any of the injuries that Kishibe loaded on her for 'training' were this extreme and bad. It would be a nuisance, but she may just rather prefer her throat slit again than whatever this is. What could this possibly even be?
...
And then her blood runs cold (haha pun intended) and she looks a little pale, fingers gripping in Kaeya's shirt a bit. ]
U-um... it's a lot so I don't know...
[ DOES this stuff hurt? Well, her injury is kind of in a weird and chaotic middle ground, after all. By God's grace, she doesn't seem to be bleeding profusely and continuously at least -- on the tail end of her effect for the time being, until it starts again later I guess. ]
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One thing at a time. Let's get you cleaned up as much as we can, that way we can perhaps see the wounds better?
[ frowning because his leg slides on blood. oof. gross feeling. ]
Barbatos it's freezing in here--the bed's ice... [ he mumbles, slowly stepping onto the floor. his expression goes a little hard as he shakes his head before turning to her and offering her a reassuring look. ] It's so much blood, Power, how do you feel? Are you dizzy at all?
[ he's going to prop her up with some pillows and hobble his way over to find a bowl and fill it with some water, grabbing some of the warm towels too. nice. ]
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She nods once, frowning. But all things considered, she seems fine? It is canonically possible for Power to have too much blood and she filled up so many bottles with blood before she actually passed out from anemia once. She's probably okay. For now, it seems it's less the volume of blood and more just how widespread it is. ]
I-if this is the new city effect, then 'tis terrible...
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[ he's tucked a towel around his bad shoulder, the blood soaking into it slowly as he guides her through cleaning up all the gross blood. definitely don't want to let it get sticky. once she's suitably clean, or as clean as she's going to get considering the volume of blood around here, he's going to drape a warm, fluffy white robe for her that he's also plucked up from the bathroom.
even if it gets more blood on it later, it's the comfort that counts in the moment because he's still kind of shocked?? glad that she's... okay for the moment, though. ]
But that would mean that at the very least it's temporary. That we won't be like this for more than a week. Not that that's comforting... a bit perhaps.
[ a tired laugh, he'll very gently squeeze her shoulder. ]
We're all going to make quite the mess, aren't we? [ hucking a blanket into an icy hamper-looking thing. sorry room service. ]
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She's sulking now, that they've gotten over a bit of the initial panic. ]
I will get that thing again, they called it "anemia"...
[ How are we not all going to be dead!! ]
where the fuck did the week go i hate mg
he's just gonna drape them both in blanket capes. it's cold and bloody, but whatever, the panic is still trying to hover and kaeya just sharply! waves it away. go away. we're busy. ]
We'll just have to watch out for one another a little harder than usual, hm? You come by here and we'll change bandages, and hopefully with enough regularity we'll survive this yet.
Especially you... all of that blood, Power... make sure you're eating a good amount too, hm? [ he looks up, around. ] Maybe... let's get dressed and find you some food. Lots of it. Bandages too. [ many... many bandages. ]