Video 05 → The First Person to Make a Sleeping Beauty Joke Will Be Punched.

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[Have a very, very rumpled and bleary-eyed Ken, rubbing at his eyes with one hand as he struggles to get his Dreamberry working with the other. Triggering the video feed was not what he had in mind, but either he hasn't noticed that small detail or simply doesn't care.

[He yawns, incompletely covering his mouth with his hand, and blinks a couple of times and for some reason he's got a horrible feeling he's late for work. In fact he's got a feeling he is incredibly late for work, so late that if he was anyone else doing any other job he'd probably have been five minutes away from a pink slip. How long's he been asleep for, anyway? Don't these things have the time on them somewhe--]

... this thing working? Wait, what date's everyone else got?!

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[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Well, that's standard. Ken knows this. It hurt like Hell when Yuriko left... Something about the way Aya is acting, though, is not standard. It bugs him and he can't really think of why--]

Well, maybe you just need to take your mind off it. Go hang out with someone else for a while, or - or go watch a movie or something? When did you last see him?

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

I don't want to see anybody else-- I mean.

[Based on the catch in her voice at the end, and the uncomfortable, guilty look to hit her expression, she knows that hadn't sounded good.]

Ken...

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[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[... okay, wow.

[Wouldn't that get really boring? Just being with one person all the time? It doesn't sound like a sentiment Ken can really understand and it doesn't sound like anything Aya should be saying, either. He... well, he guesses he's heard about girls going crazy over guys like this, but mostly it's come hand in hand with a catchy refrain and a cute PV. Normal girls didn't do that. Well, girls like Aya didn't, anyway. Did they?]

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[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Has he gone somewhere? When'd you last see him?

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

[Aaaand she knows this probably isn't going to sound good either.]

...Last night. That's not the point, Ken.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Last night?

[That sounded a lot more incredulous than he'd have liked.]

Look... do you wanna come over and go find some lunch or something? I'm starving and it'd give you something else to think about.

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

I...

[She's supposed to be on her way to work soon. She's still of half a mind to call in. She doesn't think she can make it that many more hours.]

I can't. I'm sorry, Ken.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Some other day then, maybe. I don't mind if you hold me to that either.

[Aya? I'm worried about you.]

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

[Yeah, she's really not looking too well.]

Thanks. It's good to see you up and about again. Later.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Later.

[Something - he doesn't even know what - sees Ken adding:]

Just take care of yourself, okay?

[stillneedsakiss.livejournal.com]

[She really doesn't know what to say to that.]

Mmh...

[Click.]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Click.

[There can't be more than one Irial in Somarium.]