Edmondia: *ahem*
EnsTren: I need to switch comps soon
EnsTren: and why you aheming at me?
Edmondia: k
Edmondia: * * *
Seth: Stranger
* * *

He never relaxes. Not enough to give him more than a passing glimpse of whatever new world this was.

Rarely, rarely, when he's exhausted himself with work and can barely move, he manages to peer out through waterlogged lashes and blink in confusion at his surroundings.

Stainless steel in the place of burnished gold, cool tile in the place of cool marble, an arched ceiling instead of a too-blue sky.

It never lasts longer than that one instant, and then he's shoved back into the recesses of his mind and drowns in the darkness again.

He dreams of the Mother River at daybreak.

* * *
Edmondia: and I'm off!
EnsTren: wow

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Auto response from Edmondia: I'm out eating. Where are you?

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EnsTren: ...what's seth doing in seto's brain?
EnsTren signed off at 3:57:11 PM.
EnsTren signed on at 4:05:55 PM.
EnsTren is away at 5:14:29 PM.
EnsTren returned at 5:46:19 PM.
EnsTren: *stares at the multitude of minichibi ryous*
Edmondia: uh oh
EnsTren: eahc is headed by a minimini ryou, too, they aren't chibi, just small
EnsTren: with bigger eyes
EnsTren: http://www.deviantart.com/view/3414286/
EnsTren: like how he's chibi but not
EnsTren: that's a minimini
Edmondia: ah
EnsTren: are we against minimini sex?
Edmondia: um, yeah
EnsTren: even though if we zoom in they are normal?
Edmondia: meh *shrugs*
EnsTren: is that drabble seth in seto, or repressed memories/perspective in seto
Edmondia: Seth
EnsTren: what's he doing in seto?
EnsTren: with seto not letting him out?
Edmondia: he's not really aware that he's in Seto
Edmondia: and Seto certainly doesn't know that he's there
EnsTren: how ISN;T he aware?
EnsTren: or...how is he not aware?
EnsTren: *confused*
Edmondia: exactly
Edmondia: he's not really conscious, he's not really unconscious
Edmondia: he's just... stuck.
Edmondia: halfway between reality and unreality
EnsTren: hmn
Edmondia: halfway between conscious awareness and sleeping
EnsTren: ...and atemu didn't notice when he plucked seto apart?
Edmondia: nope
Edmondia: he was sound asleep then
EnsTren: *hits Atemu with a clue board game*
Edmondia: don't blame him
Edmondia: nobody knew he was in there
EnsTren: ...okkie
EnsTren: *hands atemu the clue game*
Edmondia: actually, nobody knows he's in there right now
EnsTren: hmn
Edmondia: even Seth
EnsTren: what would atemu do if he knew?
Edmondia: nothing
Edmondia: Seth's not really aware, and Seto definitely isn't what could he do?
EnsTren: pry him open and wake him up
Edmondia: how?
EnsTren: dunno
Edmondia: exactly
EnsTren: I'm lonely
Edmondia: *hug*
EnsTren: *still lonely*
Edmondia: Seth: *hugs*
EnsTren: *gropes him, but still feels down, so stops gropeing him*
Edmondia: Seto: *hugs from the other side*
EnsTren: *is between hugging setotes of the male carity and perks up a little*
Edmondia: Setotes: *snuggle*
EnsTren: *melting into goo*
Edmondia: Setotes: *petpetpet*
EnsTren: *oozes up their pants leg*
Edmondia: heh
EnsTren: *gropes*
Edmondia: heh
EnsTren: *coagulates in the crotch area to better grope*
Edmondia: hehe
EnsTren: *mildly enjoying self*
Edmondia: that's good
EnsTren: Want *gurgle* to join *pop* me?
Edmondia: No thank you. Boys look funny.
EnsTren: really? *bloop* I don't *wet sounds* have eyes right *gurgle* now, decribe?
Edmondia: Well right now they're sweatdropping and their pants are wriggling
EnsTren: *wiggles more* oh should I *pop* get out?
Edmondia: their faces are funny shades of red and green
EnsTren: *slides out and congeals in a single puddle between them*
EnsTren: hmn..*t-2000 formation sort of thing*
EnsTren: bois!
EnsTren: *brings Seto's big executive chair over*
EnsTren: have sex in this!
Edmondia: *sweatdrops*
EnsTren: eheee
EnsTren: Bored Dragon seeking smut
Edmondia: bored Dia seeking entertainment
Edmondia: also an orange
EnsTren: *bored*
Edmondia: hm, feel like writing but dun know what
EnsTren: feel like rping but seem to be out of sync with everyone elses hormonal cycles
Edmondia: ?
EnsTren: *drawls* h@wt g@y sexx0r$
Edmondia: ah
EnsTren: *ponders*
Edmondia: ?
EnsTren: bored
Edmondia: mmmhmm
EnsTren: *screams and pulls hair out*
Edmondia: !!
EnsTren: I'm bored!
EnsTren: I can't think of anything!
EnsTren: my brain is plotless!
Edmondia: read something
EnsTren: I HATE IT!
Edmondia: I'm sorry
EnsTren: ...I don't like it when my head is this empty
Edmondia: *hands you a squirming set of setote chibis*
EnsTren: *doesn't find them intresting*
Edmondia: aww
Edmondia: *ages them by sixteen years and dresses them in leather*
EnsTren: *still not intrested*
Edmondia: hmn.
EnsTren: smut or angst
Edmondia: why not both?
EnsTren: sounds good
Edmondia: ^_^
EnsTren: so where can I get it?
Edmondia: you could read my nano!ficu XD
EnsTren: hmn?
Edmondia: being silly
Edmondia: we could play with sheSeto again, but that's not hot gay sexxors
EnsTren: and they don't have sex
Edmondia: but they do do smutty things to one another
EnsTren: not gay
Edmondia: *shrugs* read my nano!ficu
EnsTren: blah
Edmondia: I'm equally bored and have nothing to do
EnsTren: what's something mean to do to the muses?
Edmondia: set them on fire
EnsTren: blah
EnsTren: ...How about I give seto another heart attack
Edmondia: meh
EnsTren: ...
EnsTren: shingles?
EnsTren: yeah, shingels pops up when you have stress
Edmondia: meh
Edmondia: they're itchy
EnsTren: ...no they aren't
EnsTren: they hurt like hell
Edmondia: when I had 'em they itched
EnsTren: then you didn't have em seriously
EnsTren: I thought I had mono at first it was so bad
Edmondia: ow
EnsTren: had baaaad headache ness
EnsTren: the musscles on either side of my spine from about the middle of my back hurt like someon braided barbed wire into them
EnsTren: and they went up and wraped around the top of my skull all the way to my eyebrows
Edmondia: yikes
EnsTren: behind my eyes it hurt
EnsTren: oggg it was horrible
EnsTren: see, we didn't catch it in time to give me medicine
EnsTren: well we did but it might not have worked
EnsTren: so I didn't bother
EnsTren: did one good thing though
Edmondia: ?
EnsTren: Finally found out I did have chickenpox as a kid
Edmondia: ah
EnsTren: hmn
EnsTren: sheseth
EnsTren: and heseto
EnsTren: heseto still recovering from his heart attack
Edmondia: hmn
EnsTren: and we recall what that was like
Edmondia: the recovery?
EnsTren: seth angsting and self blame
EnsTren: seto being disturbingly hikari like
Edmondia: yeah
EnsTren: he can't talk, dunno why, but he'll recover
EnsTren: hmn
Edmondia: he can talk
Edmondia: he just slurs
EnsTren: yeah
EnsTren: so doesn't bother
EnsTren: it's tiering too
EnsTren: hmn
EnsTren: Y'mimine? Came a soft tender treasured little voice into her mind.
Edmondia: Yes, sweetling?
EnsTren: I want...mnn..c-c...colours...paper...wanna Little kittenish yawn. Draw...things...inm' head. Usedt' crayon...wit..'kuba..
Edmondia: Are you awake enough to draw, my pretty light?
EnsTren: Y's.
Edmondia: All right. And she fetched him his things and settled by his side.
EnsTren: Hikari, with her help, managed to sit up enough, and began to draw with the crayons. She faintly recognized a diagram for a new computer chip hikari had been designing taking shape
Edmondia: What does it do?
EnsTren: G'rphics...prcss better. Hikari also started drawing dragons and a border around it.
Edmondia: I see, she murmured, and tucked a stray bang behind his ear.
EnsTren: Hikari was drawing with a black crayon, and she wouldn't be surprised if he started sticking his tongue out he was concentrating so much
Edmondia: He was being very cute.
EnsTren: Then hikari started coloring them in
Edmondia: She watched him quietly.
EnsTren: Hikari was an artist, it was a pity he rarely applied it to anything but technical drawings. Even with crayons his shading was marvelous--better than the court artists.
Edmondia: She felt rather useless, just sitting there, but there was nothing she could do.
EnsTren: Hikari started to draw another dragon in the cornner, very small and with a long whipy tail, and wings like a dragonfly's but shaped like a butterfly's.
EnsTren: Hikari colored the facets boldly and hunched over a little.
Edmondia: ?
EnsTren: F'iry drag'n.
Edmondia: Pretty.
EnsTren: ... Hikari switched sheets and started doing another, larger, drawing of his "Fairy Dragon," but with specifications of size and material. 'Ave 'un m'de fer you.
Edmondia: For me, pretty light?
EnsTren: 'Es. Look pr'tty in yer hair.
Edmondia: She smiled. You don't have to make that for me, pretty light.
EnsTren: Y'mi al'eady pr'ty. But want to.
Edmondia: All right... as long as it doesn't interfere with your recovery.
EnsTren: Silly...Y'mi. I...send...'sign...others m'ke.
Edmondia: Ah... craftsmen of yours?
EnsTren: Yes.
EnsTren: M'ke...M'chin's...M'ke...bombs... Hikari stopped drawing. D'n't m'ke...pr'ty things.
Edmondia: They will.
Edmondia: (sexxae)
EnsTren: (*pants*)
EnsTren: Hikari glumly leaned over to rest against her shoulder, eyes closed and breathing deeply
Edmondia: She tucked him closer and stroked his hair.
EnsTren: Hikari nuzzled her a little--how could he still love her after this?
Edmondia: Foolish hikari.
EnsTren: Hikari smiled a little, brought out of his gloom and doom just by being near her and continued to color the bejewled wings.
Edmondia: Foolish, foolish hikari.
EnsTren: Hikari's smiling face looked at her, perhaps judging her colors to choose the best ones for the dragon, L've you.
Edmondia: She tapped a finger against his nose. Love you, precious light.
EnsTren: Hikari's light was brillant as he smiled.
Edmondia: She smiled back.
EnsTren: Hikari colored like a child.
Edmondia: She smiled at him and watched him.
EnsTren: (and what would the tachi see if they saw seto coloring?)
Edmondia: (he's regaining fine motor skills! yay!)
EnsTren: (hehee)
EnsTren: (but jou? Seto, coloring, with crayons)
Edmondia: ("...dis is what happens when you don't let 'im outta the house for too long.")
EnsTren: (and then buy him a coloring book--a silly one--disney one)
Edmondia: (heh)
EnsTren: (and Honda would get him a big box of crayons, and mokuba would get him one of those orgasm-inducing-in-artists prisma color pencil sets)
Edmondia: (indeed)
EnsTren: (ryou...ryou doesn't come)
EnsTren: (because Seto's serean happi light is driving Bakura nuts)
Edmondia: (heh)
EnsTren: (and only really seth, Mokuba, and seto himself are comfortable with the new seto)
EnsTren: (no one...imagined there was that kind of light under everything)
Edmondia: (Yugi?)
EnsTren: (Yugi hoped)
EnsTren: (but he didn't know)
EnsTren: (Yami couldnt' even effect this kind of turn around on seto)
Edmondia: (http://www.janime.net/images/FanArt/malik/01/50.jpg)
EnsTren: (*snarks*)
Edmondia: (XD)
Edmondia: (http://www.janime.net/images/FanArt/malik/01/83.jpg)
EnsTren: (poor dear)
Edmondia: (indeed)
EnsTren: Y'mi?
Edmondia: Yes?
EnsTren: Y' Draw? Hikari offered her a crayon and slid the paper over.
Edmondia: What should I draw, pretty light?
EnsTren: I dunno.
Edmondia: Hm. And she quickly sketched out what by all appearances was an Egyptian-style chibi-Mokuba.
EnsTren: Hikari was delighted and giggled between their minds.
Edmondia: She eyed the work critically. Not my usual style, but appropriate.
EnsTren: Hikari hugged her.
Edmondia: She hugged him close against her and rested her cheek against his hair. Happy, pretty light?
EnsTren: Yes, hikari was happy, hikari was delighted. Hikari was as good as the first rains, and as happy as a man finding an oasis.
Edmondia: She sqeezed him tight.
EnsTren: Hikari would never be fluffy, but hikari was soft now, light shining out in all directions and not held back, not hidden and frightened.
Edmondia: If it weren't for the circumstances that had brought them to this, she would be happy.
EnsTren: She had given hikari his light--but taken his health.
Edmondia: The trade was unfair.
EnsTren: Hikari was so happy--she was lucky they were forever now--otherwise she would have taken years off hikari's life.
Edmondia: How could she be so careless?
EnsTren: Hikari was thankful.
Edmondia: Hikari had no reason to thank her.
EnsTren: Hikari was already bright before this.
Edmondia: Hikari was blinding, now.
EnsTren: And nothing, or at least very little, to hide it.
Edmondia: It was... very warm, now.
EnsTren: It was good...But not, because of the price.
Edmondia: It was... different.
EnsTren: She had been living on very little--hikari had been more hungry for what she could give him than she was hungry for his light.
Edmondia: But now...
EnsTren: Hikari shined. He was still a rude to Katsuya Jounouichi, and at times his eyes showed no emotion, but only...only when it was time. A mask droped over him, not welded to him.
Edmondia: That much was good.
EnsTren: Hikari wasn't blinded by his own light. She hadn't shaken loose his personality when she took away the darkness and hurt him.
Edmondia: Hikari was very strong.
EnsTren: Hikari had no idea how strong he was. Husband seemed to prefer to think that it was the heart attack, perhaps affecting hikari's mind, slowing it and making him simple.
EnsTren: It was certainly a viable thought, the tiredness rendering hikari too exhuasted to be as he usually was, in addition to all she took away.
EnsTren: But husband wasn't as close to hikari as she was, after all, hikari was her hikari. The heartattack was a side effect, not the cause.
Edmondia: She would have to explain that to him, so he could come back and help take care of hikari.
EnsTren: She might have some difficulty convincing husband--after all hikari's soul had to come apart for when husband removed the darkness. That didn't happen this time.
Edmondia: She'd get Yugi to help her - husband had an annoying tendency to almost always do exactly what Yugi told him to do.
EnsTren: At least he didn't smile inspidly and nod while agreeing to it--usually.
Edmondia: It depended on what Yugi was using to entice him.
EnsTren: Fortunetly Yugi found the expression as annoying as she did
Edmondia: So husband and Yugi would return and help her care for hikari and all would be well.
EnsTren: Maybe Hikari and Yugi could draw and color together.
Edmondia: That would be nice.
EnsTren: She wondered what Yugi would draw. Hikari was at the moment drawing many butterfly dragons--a few had that suspiciously looked like a golden retriver in their claws.
Edmondia: She chuckled.
EnsTren: Hikari drew a golden retriver--she assumed because hikari drew it bald--apprently it had been plucked by the flock of fairy dragons.
Edmondia: She giggled.
EnsTren: No, hikari hadn't lost his personality.
Edmondia: She ruffled his hair
EnsTren: Hikari's smile was brillant.
Edmondia: Hikari was brilliant.
EnsTren: No wonder the Tomb Robber wouldn't let his Omote come near hikari. Seto didn't know how to shield yet--and there wasn't any reason to.
EnsTren: (*agervated*)
Edmondia: (?)
EnsTren: (fics with seto cheating atthe game of chess with goz)
Edmondia: (rawr)
Edmondia: (aaaand - bed)