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[IT'S FINE. HE'S FINE!!!! Sometimes things just happen. At the question, he glances down toward his feeties, which are indeed probably soaked all through the shoes and socks.]

Only a bit. I'll leave everything out to dry later.

[Mechanically, he reaches down to pluck a last lingering leech off of his leg, pinching it with a little squish between his fingers. Goodnight.]

...If you would be so kind... the water would be appreciated.

[Lavi watches him squish the leech between his fingers.

This guy's definitely not okay....]

Okay, hang tight.

[and lavi will walk away..... and get a glass of water!!!! and speedily come back... you're about to tell me lucas isn't HERE

but if he is then he'll sit back down next to him and hold it out]

[DON'T JUST BOLD THINK THAT HE'S NOT OKAY LISTEN HERE yeah he's not okay but it's fine. Also please know i got your 2/2 tag 10 minutes after you sent it so i just assumed the whole time you'd left it at THIS GUY'S DEFINITELY NOT OKAY

He's still here, though! And he looks a bit better when Lavi returns. Less sweaty, less out of it. He reaches for the glass with a polite little nod.]

Thank you very much.

[DRINKS IT LIKE HE'S BEEN IN THE SAHARA FOR 5 DAYS.]

[LOOK AT HIM GO DAMN. Lavi sits and waits patiently as Lucas drinks the entire ocean out of this mary poppins glass of water. What did Lucas do to get so thirsty, besides sweating like a madman for however many hours.]

...How long were you standing in the water for?

[he has so many questions but he'll start with THIS]

[KILL ME YOU COWARD

Anyway good QUESTION. After he finishes the glass, he will primly hold it in his lap, brow drawing downward.]

...It wasn't more than five minutes. [He says, lying completely because he frankly doesn't remember the last however much time has gone by BUT HE DOESN'T WANT TO BE EVEN MORE WORRYING.] But I wasn't able to fetch water this morning.

[Lavi looks at him sidelong like why the fck u lyin.mp3 because if he were Lucas, an upright kind of guy who always worries about everyone’s wellbeing and apologizes to people even while disassociating then he’d also LIE!!! And if he’s telling the truth well he still deserves to be stared at in concern!!!!

Lavi doesn’t say any of this out loud, instead he frowns when Lucas says he couldn’t get water. Was that what was happening…]

What happened?

[DON'T LOOK AT HIM LIKE THAT IT'S FINE IT'S FINE EVERYTHING IS FINE and most especially of all he himself is fine!!!!

He glances down at the cup as this question is posed because it is also a question he has no answer to, but at least he won't lie about it. He shakes his head, brow furrowed.]

I'm not entirely certain... One moment, I was feeling fine, and the next I felt very near the verge of fainting.

[Lucas, your mysterious anime illness... At least Lavi doesn't sing the lyin.mp3 song in his head again... He still remains worried though, HELLO]

Has that happened to you before?

[STOP CALLIN HIM A LIAR LISTEN HERE YOU.

It's fine, it's fine. He shakes his head again, breathing out a sigh.]

No, I can't say that it has. Perhaps it's simply the stress of adaptation.

...That's some stress.

[The human body reacts differently for everyone, but also the same in a lot of ways?]

You were seriously out of it, Lucas. There were even leeches on you, and you didn't seem to notice or care. [...] It looked like your mind was somewhere else entirely.

[and he knwos all about MINDS being TRANSPORTED]

[Lavi is back in the chair as they speak isn't he.........

He looks very faintly troubled for a moment, though. i think about how i keep describing what his eyebrows are doing when no one can see them]

I'm not certain where it was. [He wasn't thinking of anything at all, really. His memories of the last while are disjointed and disorienting and he would rather not go into it, so he just shakes his head as if to shake himself out of the lingering vestiges of whatever the hell that was.]

...Well, I admit that I haven't been sleeping very much, lately. I do believe it was just stress.

[STOP i appreciate lucas's eyebrows..... i always will......

Lavi briefly thinks about how he asked Mathis if Lucas had any funny sleep habits, damn..... the Regret,]

Maybe we can get you some tea... Or a fragrance, like lavender.

[temporary stopgaps that won't address the core issue here... which is that they are here for a ritual]

Or earplugs for that church bell...

[HELP NOT THE LUCAS EYEBROW APPRECIATION.

This is so funny though Lavi is so funny.]

Ah, yes... That bell is a little loud...

[A LITTLE. It's fine, he will survive. Lucas clears his throat somewhat reflexively, a hand moving to touch his collar.]

...Thank you, though. You're very kind, dear. I really do hope that I didn't give you too much of a fright.

[He really is feeling better, he's back to full formal sentences.]

[he's back to his full formal sentences...]

You did. [DON'T BULLY LUCAS DAMN... he looks stern... and then he grins] But I'll forgive ya.

[okay....]

Just for now though. Ask the Masks for something to help with your sleep, yeah? Or I'll pester Aerith about ya.

[DON'T BULLY LUCAS!!!!! He's just a little guy... who looks so concerned even though he's smiling soon after, trying to buoy the mood of the situation a bit with a teasing air.]

Gracious and generous as well, aren't you? I'll be sure to ask them the next time I see them, though. No need to worry dear Aerith, even if you'd like the company in concern.

[Unfortunately nothing will help because he's currently going through

✨withdrawal✨

but it's fine he doesn't know that either, he just thinks he's fucking dying faster or something.]

[SHUT. DON'T TELL ME THAT HELLO. ILL DESTROY YOU.]

I love company, yeah! I'm even thinking of starting a club. We'll call each other the Lucassians.

[the mothering lucas while he's mothering club. also the way that just looks like lucas asians clubs.]

[:3c

STOP DON'T JUST MAKE THE LUCAS ASIANS CLUB.]

Won't you consider keeping company in other ways? That makes it sound as though I'll be causing enough trouble for a club to be necessary...

Maybe you will! [DON'T CURSE LUCAS LIKE THIS] But if it makes you feel better, then you can think of us as your fan club.

[lomegas]

[FUCKING HELP!!!!! Yeah Lavi will be at fault when Lucas ends up as tutorial, damn.

He reaches out with the hand that isn't holding the glass (it is not the leech hand), patting Lavi's knee.]

I'd rather have friends and not a fan club.

[does lucas not want a kpop parasocial relationship...

Lavi looks down at Lucas's hand, and pats his gloved one on top of his. handwich.]

Then the contract is sealed.

[NO!!!

HE ALSO DOESN'T WANT A DEMONIC CONTRACT GET OUT OF HIS HOUSE.]

...The contract of friendship?

Hehe.

[THAT'S ALL HE SAYS]

[DON'T JUST HEHE.]

...Thank you, I suppose.

[IS LUCAS DEAD

pats him pats him pats him]

What do you usually do to relieve stress?

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