( Waking Dreams Bring Tears for Reality )

[Alma jerks awake and there are tear tracks smeared across his face from rubbing it into the pillow. His chest is heaving and his eyes look everywhere, trying to find them, the monsters, the dark horrible things that want to kill him. They're coming. They're--

--not real. It was all a dream.

It takes a few minutes for Alma to calm down enough to get out of bed, but he knows he's not going to get any more sleep. He puts on some warmer clothes that he'd picked out while shopping with Lenalee and his new coat and tries to be as quiet as possible while making his way out of his room and through the hall and out the front door. His cheeks burn and he reaches up to touch them, only to find he's still crying and doesn't want to think about why.]

{OOC: Alma was trying to be quiet, but could have been heard easily, so feel free to catch him at the front door, Allen or Lavi? He'll still be making his way outside and to the playground, either way.}

[Allen barely suppresses a yawn as he paces down the street. The last few days have been pretty tightly-packed, patrol after patrol after alarming incident after alarming incident, and he's been running on an adrenaline high since the puppy arrived. But now it's late, and he started to feel his buzz fading as he left the party to go on patrol, and now that he's actually on it he's aching with exhaustion.

[Mmph. He separated from his partner a while back, but maybe he should consider turning in early... But then again, that would sound terrible, especially since it's Master's shift... He should just tough it out.]

[Tieria left Lyle's room and headed towards the lobby of the hospital. It didn't take him long to find Setsuna once he reached it, and he nodded to the other Meister.]

Are you ready?

[Fai's in the shelter common room, a cup of hot cocoa and a bucket of toy construction bricks in front of him. He's relaxing after all the festivities of the Yule Ball, and the shelter is pretty quiet.

He's got a partial building already set up, and is now working on adding extraneous decorations.]

(OOC: Lemme know if this doesn't work, Rylie!)

( Early morning//Private )

[Video, about 7 AM]

[Ryu flicks on the video, looking as if he hasn't slept well. At least he's managed to wipe his face by the time he broadcasts.]

Fou-Lu's gone, if anyone's looking for him.

[Defense Force filter]

Can someone cover my shift this morning? I… I'm not feeling up to it.

[/Filter]

[Action]

[Ryu's wandering around this morning, mostly in sectors 2 and 4. He's headed for the Butterfly Pavilion and the Pet Cafe.]

Yes, but the world
Is always so beautiful
It seems so strange that you alone aren't here…

[[ooc; Feel free to tag either of the public parts (or the filtered part if applicable). Ryu's humming a bit of this song.]]

[It's late, and Naoya is asleep, dreaming.]

[No, not dreaming. Remembering… for the most part.]

( Bluh bluh dream. )

[Naoya bolts up in his bed, pressing his hands to his face. Ugh… tears. Hopefully Jun is sound asleep and will stay that way. He doesn't need questions.]

[[ooc; Closed to people in Naoya's house right now.]]

[Cas is on a morning run for burgers because Dean is a lazy guy who takes advantage of Castiel's teleporting skills. Ah well, the angel was feeling much better anyway. Might as well stretch his wings.]

[But on the way back, he's decided on a detour! So here's Cas now with a bag of burgers in one hand as he stares with a thoughtful expression on his face into the window of the pet café.]