Wasted and wounded, it ain't what the moon did

[inblood]

[It's been a few days since the...incident with Kumagawa. Thanks to Sei things turned out better than they could have, but it still isn't something Touya could just recover from. He's spent these last few days in his room, avoiding contact with others as much as possible, not eating or talking, barely even responding to anything. Today, Audi finally kicked him out of the room to  eat something.

Flatmates can find him poking about for food and making a small and simple snack. He still isn't very hungry, but health is important.

Later on, he ventures out to the streets. With the seal back in its proper place, Bouffalant wasn't really conscious enough to follow Touya, so now Touya's out looking for the buffafro that's been meandering through the streets for days. They'll find eachother eventually, they always do.

Finally, after he's found his buffalo, Touya can be found in a park or other relatively peaceful part of London. He's sitting with his eyes closed, back against the large Pokemon, just listening to everything around him. His head's been ringing ever since that event, maybe if he focuses and listens he can find the cause. He's still too jittery for this to look like meditation though.]

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[inblood]

Y-Yeah, I...met him [again? Last time wasn't exactly a meeting, but...] today.

[He shivers with the drop in temperature.] Running away... Someone else I met today sad something similar. That, that I'm like him, because that w-we're both good at running away. [Touya isn't sure he likes being compared to Kumagawa one bit. It's true that he's only good at running away, though...he runs away from everything.]

[leviathaned]

Well, he's certainly good at that. That's about where the similarities end, though. If he has compassion for other people, he's run away from that, too. They have to be in as bad as shape as he is first, or something.

[Huffs. Unlike the Minuses, Sei isn't content to stay at the bottom. He'll claw his way into a world and make it one that accepts him, and it works.

...being the antichrist might give him an unfair advantage there though.]

[inblood]

[Touya exhales, a sigh of relief. Compassion. That's what a Healer needs, one of many things a Berserker lacks, and something that makes him different from Kumagawa. There's a smile again. He decides to change the subject before he finds some way to let Kumagawa's words get to him again.]

I...met someone else today, too. Someone who didn't hurt my ears at all. [Elaine and Kumagawa are kind of horrible to listen to, his ears are still aching.] It was actually quiet around him. Real quiet, not...empty, or drowning everything else out, but...peaceful.

[leviathaned]

Oh, Will. My uncle. [Technically.]

[inblood]

[Touya's impressed. He didn't even mention Will had called you family, or indeed anything but the sounds he knows not everyone can hear.]

He did say you were family. He...he's nicer than the papers made him seem. He let me sit in his office for a while. [It was so nice and quiet and made the day a whole lot better!]

[leviathaned]

Huh. Guess he likes you. [Or something.] He's kind of rude but he's not a bad guy.

[inblood]

Hard to believe anyone who sounded like that could be... [It was legitimately the most amazing sound and Touya wishes he could share it somehow.] I guess...he isn't human either? He said I could ask you.

[leviathaned]

He's an angel. Dominion. Te..chnically he Fell from grace because he didn't kill me but never bring that up around him.

As for the sound, I'm sure I could arrange something.

[inblood]

["Angel"? "Dominion"? "Grace"? Touya isn't really sure what these mean in context, but he gets the general concept, especially with what you said about yourself earlier. He focuses on that last statement however, and his face lights up like a little kid in a candy shop.]

Really? That...that would be wonderful...!