[The feed cuts on to show Lockon in a hospital bed, the back of it stuffed with extra pillows to accommodate an upright sitting pose. His head has a bandage wrapped thinly around his forehead, but its purpose only seems to be keeping a large wad of gauze from slipping off of his right eye. He was still dressed in a hospital gown, and it didn't look as if he was in any hurry to go anywhere. The bandage from his right arm is also missing.]

Oy! What's all this I'm missing about another holiday? A guy can't take a single day off without missing all the fun. [He seemed in high spirits, a bit of a cheeky grin on his face, and he winked/blinked at the camera.]

[You may hear the sounds of someone tapping on the communicator.]

[The screen is black for a moment and you can hear fabric rustling on the other end.]

Ugh! How does this thing even work?

[Hey, now there's a little light to the picture but mostly the color blue...but it's slowly panning out. Slowly...Slowly...until. Yes. There is a girl. And a face. A very large face filling the screen of your video.]

Is this someone's idea of a joke?

Jail? REALLY? I'm not even sixteen yet! You seriously think I'd believe I've done something deserving of jail? Are you stupid?

These charges are absolutely hilarious though! Who came up with these?

Extortion? Blackmail? When have I ever? What would I need to extort anyway?

Ignoring the laws of nature? How can I ignore them? Sure, it would be cool to make some changes to how things work but ignoring them isn't going to do anything!

Altering timelines? Do I really even need to address this? Really? Ah! If only! I'd totally go back to last week when I got that stomach ache from eating too much of Miruku's cookies and not eat them. I couldn't move for like two hours that night!

Destruction and Recreation of Earth. [Dissolves into giggles] You would think I'd remember that.

Okay! Really. Joke's over. You can come out now, it was fun for like the first five minutes. I have some very important things to get done today.

Thanks to everyone's help, I've been able to put together a few baskets for new arrivals. If anyone who contacted me before about helping or anyone who wants to join in now would like, I'm in the kitchen assembling more.

I would really appreciate help distributing them. Sentience is giving me a list of all the newcomer's names, but no addresses of course. I'm sure it will be a little hit or miss. [A little apologetic sounding.] But I hope it helps a little.

I also added extra chocolates to these since it's Valentine's Day. [Does not sound sad! ...Might sound a little uncharacteristically formal on this point.]

[Added a few moments later as an after thought] And if you are recently arrived and haven't gotten one, please feel free to drop by or speak up.

[OOC: Set in the late afternoon.]

Reira's sitting on her bed, having talked with a few people - and even seen Ashton, or who Ashton used to be - and still not really having found any comfort. On the floor, Shin is chewing happily on her communicator, but she doesn't even notice - not even when it opens up a private voice channel with someone she's never met.]

Wh-what am I going to do? [And suddenly, she bursts into loud, shaking sobs. Whoever's on the other end is going to get a very strange surprise.]

((ooc: Xion? This one's for you! Hope this works for you as a way to introduce them.))

[Sulking. That's what is happening here. Earlier, with that wonderful little conversation between Mikage and Teito, Mikhail had been scolded rather harshly by its master. All it wants to do is protect him being the overly obsessed with its favorite vessel thusfar kind of stone it is. It's guided solely by Teito's desires and wishes. True, it has a conscience of its own and a will of its own, but overall whatever Teito commands, goes.

Which is leaving a rather confused Eye of Mikhail. When the child had been younger, the Eye stated it would protect Teito no matter what. It would shield Teito from all the pain, hurt, and other darker emotions... Sounds more like the Eye might be getting sliiiightly jealous too.

Suffice to say, its definitely pouting out in the common room when all kids and inferior mortals should be asleep and tucked into bed.]


((ooc: dated to LATE night/early morning.))

[Couches are comfortable things. Anyone passing through the common room may notice the over-sized wolf fast asleep on one of them. Ammy is bored, and bored Ammy sleeps.

Her little Eevee is attempting to wake her up by biting an ear and tugging like woa on it. All that manages to do is make Ammy roll over, and knock Eevee off the lounge. The Pokemon is very disgruntled by this and whines, tail in the air.

Someone come wake her up?]


((Attempting to wake the muse up some more. Here's hoping it works))

[Pearl's sitting on the floor in the library, surrounded by children's picture books...which she is ignoring in favor of flipping through a large red dictionary, eyebrows knit in concentration.]

[she asked Mystic Maya what a penis was earlier, only to receive a very flustered response that...really didn't tell her anything at all. so instead of asking about any of the other words she'd heard recently, she decided to look them up herself.]

[...but in her case, that's easier said than done.]

[there's a notecard on the floor next to her that reads as follows: pinuz, veg va vujyna, breztz, ni nyp nepals]

...I should have asked that nice man how those words are spelled...

[[backdated to earlier in the afternoon...and I'm a terrible person, sob.]]

[Private to Kitty]

My regrets for contacting you so late in the day, but would you disapprove of proceeding with our training this evening?

[Despite being a bit gloomy about Valentine's Day, Adrianna tried to be as happy as she could, in honor for the ones she loved and weren't here. You can hear a strong noise of wrap paper, and a heavy sigh of exasperation.]

Ugh!... I don't think I'm doing this correctly... Damn it!

[The noise became loudly, as if she was clenching the paper and throwing it somewhere. Another wrap paper making the same noise as the first one, but after some minutes, you can hear a small happy giggle.]

Okay... Perfect! So... this is for... Len... Zero... Kaname, Yuuki... Aidou... Faith... Lockon and Haro.

Good! I think I'm done!




[ooc: s-sob! she has NO idea the audio is on! still learning how to use this bloody thing. unfortunately, she's revealing the names of the people she's going to give chocolates and truffles. come to say y/n? for Valentine's present.]