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[inkedspell]

You crazy people can't ever seem to stay out of trouble, but at least that keeps this place fun.

I may have been gone for a while but it didn't take me much to catch up so Tutoring Sessions Will Continue! If you weren't on my list before but want to be now, hit me up. If you want to drop the sessions, that's fine, too.

And I left that adaptive golem for a reason, but should have known someone would abuse the opportunity teach him how to cuss in ten different languages. Cute, but unhelpful for my research.

If it was you Spudnut, I will find out.

{OOC: Sarona has been absent for nearly two months due to a death and legal custody issues, but she's back now and ready to get back into things!}

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[inkedspell]

[Toki is going to test her. She knows this. She knows how hard it was to work with him last time.

And she reminds herself that is exactly the kind of distraction she needs. At least there's no urge to beat his face in.]

I heard a lot of things were crazy around here. Is that why the alchemy professor gave you an extension?

[yokeye]

yeah, you can say that!

[He had a bad run of visions and tried to claw his eye out twice. He's basically been in a downward spiral since the end of February. They can distract each other, and maybe come out of it with less contention between them.]

[inkedspell]

What is the project about? Give me some specifics and I'll get some materials together for the session.

[yokeye]

these are my notes on it!
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[The file contains pictures of his notes for the class. They're a messily scrawled mix of Japanese and French, sometimes alternating languages in the same sentence. Half a page has no sentence structure at all, nor punctuation, and amounts to just a bunch of words written close together. If Sarona can figure out any of it, the notes describe Jail's assignment, along with some half-formed ideas; one involving forks and another a beret.]

[inkedspell]

[It takes her a bit to look through his notes and try to put together what he was saying. Why did he use two languages? This is horrible. Japanese and French do not work together.

But she eventually does figure it out.]

Oh this is gonna be easier than I thought. Runes are similar to this kind of thing.

Pick your item and bring it over tomorrow around 5 and I'll show you how to set it up. The stealth is the hardest part, but I'll show you what to do.

the next day

[yokeye]

[Toki shows up at 5:03 and knocks rapidly on Sarona's door. He has a bag with a few items for her to choose from, since he isn't sure what would be best. He's also brought his notebook, and the textbook. He may actually be prepared, and making somewhat of an effort.]

[inkedspell]

[Not that late, considering it's Toki, so she's proud of him for that. She opens the door and steps aside to let him in.]

You can drop everything on the desk. I cleaned it off for space for us. Where's your item?

[yokeye]

[Toki leaves his book and notes on the table and then removes items from his bag. A sushi bracelet with an old silver key attached, a chunky watch (both of which he promised not to take off), the Daybreak Academy uniform ribbon, a fork, a beanie hat with straps on either side (it's a helmet), and assorted Hello Kitty pens.]

I don't know which would be less suspicious for anyone guessing which one's the magic item~!

[inkedspell]

[Looking over all the items, she decided not to go for the items that she had seen him wear constantly that were personal. It was never good to play around with magic with items you care about.]

The ribbon is probably the best bet, honestly. You can wear it without people thinking it's out of place and if we damage it while doing the experiments, you can just get a new one. The rest of it might stand out too much and be picked easily as your item by someone else. Best next option is the pen. What do you think?

[yokeye]

What about... can we do something to each of them!? Then if I lose the ribbon or the pen before I get back to class, one's still viable as a project~!?

[It might be best to have a back-up.]

[inkedspell]

[Oh look at that, he's willing to do extra work. Probably not a bad idea considering Toki is...well, Toki.]

Sure, it'll just take a bit extra time. You already got the extension though, so I don't see why not.

How far have you gotten in planning the spell? What do you want them to do?

[yokeye]

I knew I forgot to do something!

[He hastily shoves the rest of the items back into his bag; the sushi bracelet with the key ends up under the bag somehow and will likely be left here. He picks up the ribbon and looks at it, willing some idea to come to him.]

Uhh... Haha, do you ave any recommendations on that~!?

[inkedspell]

Toki...

[There's definite exasperation there now.] You knew you needed to do the spell but didn't even think of what you were going to have the item do? Your gotta bring your head out of the clouds for a bit, Tik-tok.

And pick something simple. Like cause a breeze, copy someone's voice, or spread a bad smell they wouldn't notice is coming from you.

[yokeye]

I did know, but I didn't... think about what. Maybe I did once? I don't remember. I think I had an original idea during the class, but it was so long ago.

[None of Sarona's examples are anything he would have come up with, but copying someone's voice gives him an idea.]

Can we make it sound like a fly buzzing around or something?

[inkedspell]

[Sari grins then, pleased.]

That sounds great. You could make people think there's a fly near them. Drive them all sorts of crazy in the middle of class.

[She pulls out some paper to put some notes on for this. Always with the notes for her.]

Do you want both the pen and ribbon to do that, or just one of them?

[yokeye]

[He doesn't recall ever seeing her smile; he's doing something right at least.]

I thi-

[He stops half-way through the word and stares blankly at her for a moment... Seven eyes, staring, unblinking. The creature otherwise has vague features, nothing really to distinguish or identify. The swirling iris of the largest eye turns hypnotically. It laughs somehow, but it has no mouth... Toki blinks a couple of times, and then he's focused back on the assignment.]

Okay. Um, I think maybe both of them can do the same thing!? Then if I do lose one of them, I don't have to try and remember which one did what!

[He opens his notebook to write things down for this, but also to quickly sketch the half-formed daemon thing from the vision.]

[inkedspell]

[...What? What was that? Is he that stressed out about his project that he zoned out on her like that. It didn't take that long, but Sarona's observant and noticed the brief change.]

...Sure, that sounds fine, Tik-tok. That way they have to figure out which one you used.

[She pauses for a moment, eyeing him up.]

Have you been getting enough sleep?

[yokeye]

[This is going better than their last studying attempt; so Toki doesn't mention he has no idea how to make the items sound like flies. Maybe she'll address it first.]

It's a plan!

[Sarona's question catches him off guard, until it clicks what happened. It's normal for him by now, and he doesn't keep track of who has or hasn't witnessed a vision.]

As much as I always do~! [Which is practically no sleep at all.] That was, uhh, I had a vision. About this!

[He slides his notebook over and points out the daemon drawing.]

[inkedspell]

I forgot you're a Seer. [Sarona leans in to look at the sketch.]

That looks...like something we don't need around here. Another attack coming maybe?

[She looks him over again.]

You're okay, right? I know visions can mess the seer up sometimes.

[yokeye]

Maybe... It's um, sort of a progression from the ones I had about it before, while you were gone! It started with just the eyes! I think it's getting closer!

[His hand reaches up to his red eye; the previous visions of this daemon thing had definitely messed him up a little bit.]

I'm okay, really! There's just... there's been a lot about this one thing and it's kind of what got in the way of that project!

[He gestures to their current work.]

[inkedspell]

[Oh. Oh. Sarona thinks she may be starting to see where some of Toki's problems are happening.]

So you've been having a lot of visions then? All the time? Even during class?

[yokeye]

[Is that strange? He admittedly doesn't really know what's considered normal for vision frequency.]

I guess, yeah? Class, when I'm trying to sleep, any time at all... Sometimes there's a day when I don't have any, or even two days once in a while, but generally every day and sometimes like three or four times in one day, a couple times they've been like right in a row and I usually black out after that, but it doesn't happen that often. I'm talking with Professor Jailbreak about them and she says sometimes it takes a while for it to sort of settle into a pattern or one reaction to them; I don't know. I'm still figuring it out. I also kind of screwed it up with some shall we say... ill-advised... experiment. But lesson learned!

[inkedspell]

[Sarona knows all about ill-advised experiments, she wouldn't have blue hair otherwise, but that's not the same as causing yourself a bunch of possibly debilitating visions.]

Toki. Boy, you're gonna get yourself into serious trouble. What if you go catatonic or something? You need to watch your health more. Visions are important, but not if you end up in a coma from them.

[Says the girl who will go days on three hours of sleep and then crash from overworking herself.]

[yokeye]

[Toki averts his eyes and takes his notebook back to sketch more daemonic faces.]

I don't have any control over them; I never have. I'm trying to learn how to like see things in the present, the true nature of something, but that's just an addition? And maybe it's going to make it worse? But it's trying to learn some control I guess? I don't purposefully have that many visions!

[That would be insane, which okay, he's in that general box, but he would definitely reduce their number, or stop visions alltogether if he could. Which is where the experiment came in.]

[inkedspell]

I didn't say you did anything on purpose, but you have to be careful. This whole school was built on visions and how serious they are. You don't know what messing with them can do. Instead of helping, it could hurt you.

[She cuts her eyes just a bit.]

Did you talk to anyone about how many you keep having? One of the doctors or the nurse?