third shot ☢ VIDEO (open to seelie & unseelie)

[mixcds]

[Kieren hasn't slept in two days. There are already dark circles under his eyes, the skin blue and purple. He's looked tired since he arrived, but this time it's apparent. His hair has gone wild, as though he's gripped it with both hands at various spots. His eyes are blood shot - he's been too preoccupied with what's happened to really notice.

His throat is scratchy when he speaks. It's a desperate sort of noise, one layered in denial. ]

I can't find Jem. She didn't come round to give me my shot yesterday or today, I thought maybe she'd gone off with one of you lot. But I can't find her anywhere.

[He doesn't want to accept that's here alone. It's too daunting. He lifts his hands to run them over his face, but when he looks at them, one is shaking. Frustrated, he viciously shakes the tremors out. His attention soon snaps back to his locket. ]

I've seen that people go home. How do you know if they have?

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[vrykolakas]

[A sigh. Quietly:] This bullshit.

If you have anything of hers I can help you to look for her. [He's going soft in his old age; his voice hardens and quickens and sounds more practical in compensation. He wouldn't offer, but Kieren's something bizarre and new, and the fact is that he has time on his hands.] But I won't lie and tell you I think she's just wandered off.

[mixcds]

Thanks. I don't have anything - whatever she had when she arrived, it's not in her room.

[There's a soft, frustrated fuck that he tries to whisper. ]

[vrykolakas]

[Quietly, in a tone more stern than comforting, but well-meant:]

Easy.

You know exactly where she is.

[Reminding him. And he genuinely believes, too, that those who go missing go home; he's seen proof of the connection between shards and homeworlds.]

She's well out of it.

[mixcds]

She's only getting into it, back home.

[But he nods; he gets it. He understands. She's better off. She's probably safer. He's grim about being left on his own, is all. ]

Home's the best place for her, though.