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]

[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.]