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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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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?

[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?

[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.]

[...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?

[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.]

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.

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.]

[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?

[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!

[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.]

[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.]

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?

I know! It was a very bad idea and I won't do something like that again!

[He doesn't intend to anyway.]

I'm talking to people now, well, about visions and not really about the effects of them, but I will! There's-

[He stares blankly again... Flashing lights in too-bright neon colors. An upside-down and twisting impossible staircase the only object discernable. Hypnotic eyes are the heads of figures walking up and down the stairs... Uhh. That one made no sense. He doesn't bother to draw this nonsense, only writing down "eyeball men on stairs" along side his project notes.]

Where was I? Yes! There's just too much going on all the time and I get distracted and I haven't actually gotten around to discussing physical effects or whatever; it's always less important that what I'm doing when I think about it, you know? Like here we are talking about this right now, but I'm not going to find Hieke or anything because I need to finish this project and then when Im done I'm just going to forget, but I'm like discussing that part with Rex, though! Do you know him?

[Toki digs through the bag of items he brought and pulls out the watch. He makes several attempts to actually put it back on before he's successful.]

Rex like enchanted this or whatever and it's going to give him details on whatever's happening in my brain or something!

[Rex eventually does figure out a potential vision warning system later during his student council campaign.]

[Shit, Toki. She can see it now when he blanks out, having whatever vision is in his mind. That doesn't make her worry any less about him.]

Tik-tok, you need to go to a doctor. I've heard of Rex, but does he know how to deal with your visions? Just knowing when they happen doesn't help you deal with the effects. You need a doctor who has some familiarity with it. If you put some alarms and a schedule in your phone, you won't forget what you need to do and you can still get yourself checked out. I'll help you.

[She may not always take care of herself now, but Sarona knows how serious this stuff can be. She almost died so many times when she was little because her parents would put off worrying about her health until it was convenient or immediately necessary.]

That's a good idea~!

[He won't tell her he's broken or lost three phones within the last month. It's a toss up whether his current phone will stay in tact long enough to send the alarm. He grabs the phone anyway to arbitraily pick a time to remind him of things.]

Okay! Alarm set! Can we do this project now?

[Though having a similar parental situation as Sarona, Toki was never physically ill enough for any immediate intervention to be needed. He's never been to a doctor for anything until coming to Daybreak. It hasn't been fixed as a necessary thing in his mind. It's an afterthought.]

[She isn't sure she trusts him to be doing enough, but Sarona knows pressing it right now isn't going to work. So instead she'll go along and go looking into things later.]

Yeah, good. Let's get this done. Now we just need to look at whatever spell you were going to use and I need to bring up the sound of a fly buzzing on my laptop. Then we'll try to copy it.

[He is absolutely not to be trusted.]

Right! The spell~!

[Oh my god. He didn't do that either. He flips through his notes to something vaguely spell-like. He can't read several of the words, which either means it's Latin or some other spell-language, or it's just a jumbled mess of French that he misspelled or that had never made sense to begin with. He shows Sarona the "spell".]

Is this good?

Uh...no. Not at all. I can barely read that. Either you're gonna have to write it out in a way I can read it, or we're gonna have to make it from scratch.

[If Toki has been dealing with three to four visions a day, no wonder he can't keep track of anything he's doing. She knows she gets frustrated with him sometimes, but at least she understands more now. Even if she still wants to strangle him for not taking what seems like something really damn important as seriously as it deserves. Why are some people so blind to taking care of themselves?]

From scratch!

[It's an immediate answer. Help, Sarona.]

I don't even know if that's a spell to be honest~!

[Toki focuses on smaller things, one problem at a time, because anything involving himself or his future doesn't matter. Half the time he feels so disconnected from everything that he isn't sure he even exists. He doesn't know what he's doing, or where he's going in life; he's directionless and unimportant. This project, and almost everything else he does, is a distraction from that.]

[Sari takes a little breath, but keeps up her smile.]

Sure. Just let me look over these notes again so I get a better idea of it.

[As she hadn't taken this class yet, but she'd done enough independent research to have a grasp of what they were doing and what direction to take it in. She breezes through the notes, getting what she can from his handwriting scrawled across the pages.]

Okay, I think I know what we need to do. First we have to prep the items then we need to add in the auditory component with a different spell. Do you want it to project?

[He nods, following along until her last part. Project? Project what? Isn't that what the auditory component is doing already? Is there something else? Spells are too complicated.]

Uhh... Yes?

[Okay it's obvious that he's getting confused so she thinks of how to explain it.]

Do you want it to sound like the fly is buzzing around you, or do you want the sound to project somewhere else. Like a ventriloquist throwing their voice.

Oh! Around like the whole room!

[He didn't think about there being a difference on where the sound would be perceived from.]

Unless that's harder to do!

Hm...[Sarona is looking at his notes again, then brings up her own notebook to start writing her own translation of them. His are such a mess.]

It's a little harder, but not much. We just need to put a delay on the sound so that it comes across like it's further away. Like...a bubble with sound in it and when it's far enough away it pops so it doesn't sound like it came from whoever blew it.

[She hopes that makes sense.]

Oh. Okay.

[That doesn't sound too complicated in theory, and the bubble analogy makes sense to him.]

I should be able to do this!

[Maybe not well, but whatever. Trying counts.]

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