Thirty-fifth Lotus

[spandexisyouth]

[There are a great many scratched-out starts to this, illegible.]

Please do not be alarmed if you run into me. I will try to avoid most people.

I may need some days off work, Stoneface. I will come explain. [A pause.] I will come, and then I think I will not need to explain.

[[ooc: And now he's in Hidan's body. Whee!]

Comments

[grab-my-bells.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was an unpleasant way to wake up.

[spandexisyouth]

At least you are not the one limping.

Though I do not blame you.

[grab-my-bells.livejournal.com]

Yeah...

Sorry about that.

im assuming this was posted in the middle of the night? so this is his morning reaction

[beforerossum.livejournal.com]

Aye.

[spandexisyouth]

I think Bell can help you if you need more assistance, Genius.

[mischiefmatched.livejournal.com]

Not quite feeling like yourself?

[spandexisyouth]

That is one way to say it. I am not.

[lingeringlegacy]

Do you need anything brought?

[spandexisyouth]

I think we will be fine unless a change happens to Bell. But thank you.

[seeya-next-life.livejournal.com]

Gai? You didn't get mauled by a dinosaur too, did you?

[spandexisyouth]

No. I avoided the dinosaurs. And I have not had much trouble with the recent Wildernesses, which have been cities.

[getsome-sleep.livejournal.com]

Please let us know if you need anything, Gai-jūn.

[spandexisyouth]

Thank you [pause.] Huo?

[pinkmoonrabbit.livejournal.com]

Are you alright, Gai-papa?

[spandexisyouth]

I will be, Sailormoon-daughter. Please do not come over, though. I do not want to scare you or bring back what might be bad memories.

strikethroughs get progressively more scribbly and grr

[ice_echani]

Pray tell, my friend Gai

Alas, this entry is

I must know, friend and comrade, if it is at all within my power to assist you? Why do you fear to show your face?

And he thinks she's just being very kind.

[spandexisyouth]

I will come to the Watch office later and it will be very clear, I think, my friend. Only the Tree can change this back.

[books-and-toads.livejournal.com]

That doesn't sound good. I'll respect your wishes if you don't want to, but I am concerned. Would you like to meet?

[spandexisyouth]

It is not good. But perhaps you should come over. It relates to [pentaps and a pause here.] things.

[bal-daisy.livejournal.com]

Gai, are you OK?

[spandexisyouth]

I will be, Krile. Thank you for your concern. I am sure things will change back eventually.

[Quicklog] - Let's make this... bright and early on the 8th, sure

[eatenbylight.livejournal.com]

[Cloud hadn't really been sleeping that well since he woke up in this body, but he'd been managing by the simple fact that he wasn't going to work anymore. So if he got tired in the middle of the day, he could simply take a nap if he needed to. Last night he'd had one of the strange, nightmarish dreams that tended to plague him from time to time, and hadn't been able to get back to sleep after waking up from that. Not that he could remember what the dream had been about it had just been... disturbing.

...of course, the fact that a large black-and-white fish had been floating in mid-air over his head when he woke up might have something to do with why he was still awake.]

[Cloud shook his head stubbornly. They were currently walking--well, Cloud was walking, with his fish swimming behind him--through the Park, along one of the many paths that wound under the trees and eventually past the Aquarium and over toward the Farm.] I'll be fine. I want some fresh air. [Oddly, a talking fish wasn't too terribly strange, once he was over the surprise of one floating in mid-air, and swimming through it like it was water. Maybe he'd been here too long... or maybe it was that the fish's voice sounded familiar.]

[Quicklog] - Works for me!

[spandexisyouth]

[He couldn't not go for a run. If anything, Gai needed it more than he normally did. There was something very rough about being woken up by your most precious person trying to strangle you. He hadn't been able to get back to sleep, laying in the other bed staring at the wall. So at his normal time, Gai slipped out of the house for a run.

The rhythm was a little soothing, falling into it, knowing that few would be awake and around this time of day. Captain Planet was Gai's patrol; he wasn't likely to run into anyone from the Watch here.

He'd started to relax when a flicker of motion came from ahead. Gai slowed to a walk, watching, as someone who looked like a small Cloud walked out with a fish. He stopped, ready to greet Cloud, and that's when he remembered exactly who all had been killed by Apostle. Oh, this wasn't going to go well.]

Ah.

[Maybe he could slip back into the trees without Cloud noticing. Or maybe that would stress Cloud out more. A friendly greeting didn't seem like a good idea. Gai wound up standing there, feeling rather flummoxed.]

[ghost_of_00]

You don't need to avoid me.

00

[spandexisyouth]

That is very kind of you, 00.

...If you are sure, you could come over.