Video 10 → I See No Way This Carefully-Laid Plan Could Possibly Fail.

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[Well, someone isn't looking too healthy.

[Ken looks like he's been fighting, and quite possibly up all night. One of his eyes is swollen shut, there's an obvious bruise on his jaw and a cut on his brow. Honestly, he should just stop trying to walk to take-outs. Nothing good ever comes of it.

[As to what he's doing now, he's trying to prise a purple stone off his forehead with his fingernails using the Dreamberry camera as a mirror, because it shouldn't be there and it needs to go and if he was in the bathroom he'd have to stand. The obvious downside to this - that if the camera's on he's being recorded - doesn't seem to have occurred to him. Maybe if he didn't feel so damn tired--]

Ow!

[He rubs at his brow. All he's done is give himself a rather nasty-looking scratch.]

Dammit.

[Ken sighs. Rubs one eye with the heel of his hand. Clearly this isn't working and he needs a better plan. Getting up, he wanders around for a moment and returns with a pair of craft scissors. He slumps heavily back down before the camera, carefully opening the scissors so the blades are bared. On that note, the feed times out.

[Somebody save this idiot from himself. Please.]

Comments

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

You got any better ones?

[There's no bite to his voice. Ken would like to sound angry, but he just sounds tired. Looks it, too, though perhaps the bit where he's resting his head on his arms again might be a bit of a giveaway.]

Don't ask me what it is. Stuck there's all I know.

[alphaophiuchi]

Perhaps a doctor would be better than accidentally taking out your own eye.

How?

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

I hate doctors.

[He probably needs one all the same. But he's got to at least try and fix this first--]

I dunno. It's just... got stuck. Like it grew there or something and... and it won't come off and dammit, I hate this!

[... yeah, someone is not at all happy with his new sparkly.

[He looks stupid in purple, too.]

[alphaophiuchi]

Go anyway.

[Draco's not going to mention how stupid it looks. But yes, he agrees.] Well, that's buggered, isn't it?

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Ken's just gonna sigh at that. He knows he'll have to eventually, but...]

It's a pain in the ass.

[Ken pokes the damn thing with one finger. At least he doesn't have to look at it and his bangs mostly cover it most of the time, but...]

You got any ideas how to get it off? Right now I'd try most anything.

[alphaophiuchi]

I don't particularly care. And I think you know that.

Not really. I suppose I'd try to charm it off, but it all depends on how it's stuck there.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Well I don't know how it's stuck there. It just is. It... feels like it's grown there or something, it's not gonna come off unless it's forced.

[alphaophiuchi]

So a charm may yet work. Depends on if you still want your forehead, I suppose.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think we can kinda take it as read that I wanna keep the rest of my face where it is.

[alphaophiuchi]

Then a pair of scissors are probably not your best bet, methinks.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well. I ain't got any better ideas and it doesn't sound like you have either and I'd like to get some damn sleep sometime.

[alphaophiuchi]

So why not just go to sleep? I don't see the problem, besides having a rather stupid looking gem upon yourself.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

I tried that and it's not working and that stupid thing's doing something that's messing with it.

[Yes, he does sound rather sulky. Ken slumps back down against the table, resting his cheek on his folded arms.]

I don't care about the look of the thing, I feel like crap.

[alphaophiuchi]

You still haven't gone round a doctor.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

What are they gonna do about it? It's magic dream stuff!

[alphaophiuchi]

And I'm sure there are magic dream doctors.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

You know any?

[Because if Ken did, would he really have been attacking himself with scissors?]

[alphaophiuchi]

No. I don't go to doctors, magical dream or otherwise.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Then what do you do?

[And why are you telling me to go if you don't?]

[alphaophiuchi]

Healers. If I take ill at all.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

What's the difference, then?

[He's drawing a distinction so there must be one, right?]

[alphaophiuchi]

Doctors are Muggles. Healers use potions and balms. And are generally far more effective, with far less obnoxious prodding.

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Well, that sounds better, do we have any of those?

[... will have to look up that word later. Did he tell me what a Muggle was before? 'Cause if he did I don't remember.]

[alphaophiuchi]

No. Tragically. It seems to pose a bit of a problem.

I'm the closest thing round here. [and with no Healing training? Yeeeah, not that great a substitute.]