thebastion | And I feel summertime passing in haste, like running out of patience... [OPEN]

Who: One very broken half-demon and whoever might actually go looking for her.
Open: Open
When: Day 80
Where: The Bastion, Rin's apartment
What: Rin hasn't been seen since she and Night returned from looking for their lost loved ones. Some one is bound to notice her absence sooner or later
Format: Action
Warnings: None

[Rin had been an almost constant presence in the distillery kitchen in the month and some odd days she had been in the Bastion. If she wasn't out on the Skyway or sleeping she was helping Mireille, and even on her worst days being able to cook was enough to put a small smile on her face.

But for the past two days - ever since leaving with Night to the Skyway and returning - she was nowhere to be found. She wasn't in the distillery or anywhere else.

Well that wasn't entirely true. She was in her apartment. But that was the only place she had been in nearly two days.

And she would wind up staying there, so long as no one came looking for her...]

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Then tell her that.

[He's really hoping what he's saying is right, because he's really bad at this whole 'comfort a crying person' thing.]

Even if she's dead, her soul's not gone. And if she's anything like the Okumura I know from my world, then she'd definitely be the one to stay behind and watch over you. So tell her now.

I'unno how to do that...

[Even though she had been raised Catholic, she really hadn't bothered with any sort of religious leanings since some time before middle school. She had gotten disillusioned with it pretty quickly, and knowing what she was only made it worse.

To her the idea that there was anything after death, especially with how things had ended for their worlds, only went so far as figuring she was probably going to wind up in some version of Gehenna after she finally died.

Slowly she sat up, hair an absolute mess, face even worse, clothing rumpled and shirt hanging off one shoulder.]

Would she really listen to me now?

[Oh good, Rin is responding to this.

Bon will let go of Rin and step back a half-step, giving her some room to sit up fully.]

What else is she gonna do? It's not like spirits can do much else besides listen.

Yeah but she didn't really listen to me back home...

[Of course Rin didn't really listen to her, either, so...]

And it ain't gonna make losin' her any less painful... I feel like my damn heart's been ripped out...

I know, it's tough. But you gotta keep going on, even if it feels like you can't. There's people who're counting on you, remember?

But not only are they counting on you, they're there for you too. So don't shoulder this by yourself.

... I know that. ... knew that. But after I saw her...

[she shakes her head slowly. She didn't know why she shut down so badly, just that it happened, and it would have continued had Bon not come to find her.]

I'm sorry for worryin' you...

[It wasn't going to be easy to shake herself out of it, but at least she was starting to come up for air finally.]

... oh. Uhm. I got you somethin'...

[Her hand moved to the bedside table, having to lean past Bon slightly in order to dig around until she recovered a small box and handed it to him.]

I didn't know if you had any here...

[He's more surprised that she was able to get him anything when she was so upset. But then he realizes that she might have gotten it for him before she found Yuki, so he just takes the box without making any comments about that.]

What, find something out on the Skyway?

[She had gotten it right after their last Core run, but finding Yuki had made her forget she had gifts to give people.]

Uhm... no. N-not exactly...

[Wait why is she blushing]

Oh? Then where did you get it?

[And he opens it up, and-]

...are these prayer beads?

[Rin nodded, tucking her legs up under herself so she could sit up properly, though that blush did little to fade when he asked that.]

I spent some of my shards...

...ah.

[Well, it's a pretty thoughtful gift, at least.]

Thanks.

[It gives him an idea, too.]

You feeling better, or do you still need some help getting motivated again?

... I'unno. Maybe?

[She feels gross, now that she's actually given some attention to herself and not her emotional state. And her head is kind of hurting from all that crying, given that she's probably gone and dehydrated herself on top of lacking food for two days.]

What're you thinkin'?

When I was a kid, I'd go listen to my Dad chant when I was upset. I dunno what it was, but something about the chants was relaxing.

[And look, he's already finding a place to sit on the floor while taking the beads in his hands.]

Oh...

[Weirdly, she can understand that. It wasn't exactly the same, of course, but Shiro did read to her and Yuki when they were little. Sometimes out of the bible, sometimes tales of demons, sometimes just children's stories. But whatever it was, there was a comfort to be found in his voice.

Again, this wouldn't be the same, but she could see what Bon was getting at.

Nodding, she slipped off the bed, tugging the blanket down with her. She pulled it around her shoulders and drew her knees up next to him.]

[Since Rin is moving to the floor to sit with him, he will go ahead and start chanting.

He goes through a few different ones, not really picking anything significant to what's going on. Mostly it's for the sound of the chants anyway, so they prayers themselves aren't quite as important.]

[She had never really heard his chanting outside of fights before, and he was right about it being calming. She rests her head on her arms, closing her eyes and breathing slowly and evenly as he goes along.

In spite of being tired, though, she doesn't actually doze off so much as enter a much calmer, less grief-stricken state of mind.]

[This goes on for a while, until Bon notices that Rin has drifted off to sleep, or at least it looks like she has. Then his chanting drops off as he eyes her carefully, trying to see if she's really asleep or not.

He may or may not be contemplating moving her to her bed if she is asleep, so she doesn't get a cramped up back.]

[She didn't want to fall asleep, but this is two days of basically staring at a wall in between crying so... soon enough, that even breathing turns in to the slow cadence of sleep.

She even slumps over a little, enough that she's almost leaning on his shoulder.]

[...aww Rin.

Bon almost feels bad about it, but he has to risk waking her up so he can move her. But he'll at least try to be quiet while he picks her up and sets her in her bed, at least?]

[She doesn't complain, being picked up or getting slightly woken up. She's groggy enough now that she can't really put up much of a fight against sleep or him anyway.

After she's back in bed, though, she shifts while a hand snakes out and snags his hand gently.]

Thank you...

[He hesitates for a moment, not sure how to respond.

But eventually his feelings get the better of him, and he smiles a little as he squeezes Rin's hand reassuringly.]

Anytime.

[She squeezes back, and manages one last tired smile before her hand falls away and she slips back in to sleep.]

And I feel summertime passing in haste, like running out of patience... [OPEN]

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