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Sick days? What's that?

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needsteaplz and you
What: Overtraining finally gets to Saori
Where: The hotel lobby
When: September 30th, 1 am
Rating: PG just to be safe

Saori had just returned to the hotel lobby from solo training. She was slowly gaining confidence in fighting. Brigid learned the healing spell, Dia, thanks to their efforts. However, the Persona warned her that her magic wasn't infinite and she shouldn't rely on that as her crutch.

Seeing no one else in the room, she laid down on a nearby couch. Her metal baseball bat leaned against the couch arm. The improvised weapon had seen better days. Scratches and dents covered it. Saori herself had a few scratches but nothing fatal. Her muscles did feel much more sore than usual and she did feel a little warm. Suddenly she let out a loud sneeze. "Just great," she muttered to herself.

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Ledah had also returned from training and defeating Shadows out there. He was in better shape, possibly thanks to his strong constitution - as long as ice attacks weren't involved - and possibly thanks to him not going out every single night.

He stopped in the lobby when he saw the obviously tired person lying on the couch. "You're one of the others who summon Personas, aren't you?" he asked.

Saori lifted her head to see who was talking. She turned her head to cough before sitting up. Normally she wouldn't look this beat up, but the Shadows were very persistant, making the return trip a huge pain. "Y-yes, I can summon my Persona. Why do you ask?"

"That would provide some explanation for the poor shape you're in." Ledah gave her another once-over. "How often do you go out to fight?"

"Well, before I arrived here, I didn't know how to fight. So that might explain a bit too. " Saori sniffled a bit before continuing. "I train on a daily basis but not the full hour though."

"Train less." Bluntly. "You're in terrible shape and you're overworking yourself to the point where you won't be useful in a fight."

She opened her mouth to object but knew he had a point. "Well...I guess I should call in sick for a few days. It's just that I didn't want to be a burden on people if I couldn't fight but guess this was rather counterproductive of me."

Then another thing came into mind. "But if I don't fight, won't the Shadows try to come after me?"

"The hotel is relatively safe, if you come in early and just stay inside through the entire hour," he explained. "You'll be better off with some rest than if you had tried to power through it every day."

Allen also returned to the hotel from another night of training. His experience and training as an Exorcist contributed to his stamina, which was why he's not as tired compared to non-fighters.

"...Miss Saori?" She obviously looked very tired.

Saori lifted her head to see who was talking to her. Good timing. If she stayed any longer on that couch, she might've crashed there even though her room is on the first floor. "Oh, Allen. You were out training too?"

Her cheeks turned red in embarrassment. "Huh, I can't believe I didn't know that. As much as I am curious as to why the Shadows don't attack here, I should count this as a blessing. Thank you for the advice, though I don't believe we've met before. I'm Saori."

"Ledah." He nodded his head slightly. "I've been in the city for two months.

"That's right." He walked closer to her, looking at her tired state. "You pushed yourself out there too much?"

Having no persona and no overt fighting talents equated to preforming no training. Still, attempting to sleep through the dark hour was something Devola found somewhat... well, wrong. When not out and about observing the Shadows and their mannerisms, she spent time reading up on various things. Mostly things mentioned in passing by a one Asuka Langley Soryu, admittedly; but self-betterment through acquisition of knowledge, trivial or not, was still a good thing.

Still. It was well past midnight, and for whatever reason she was feeling restless. Nothing a (now-safe) walk wouldn't help with, she supposed. It was to this extent that the elevator doors opened with a merry "ding" and Devola strode into the lobby.

...And, was greeted by the unmistakable sound of a sneeze. She walked over to Saori, a light smile on her face as she spoke. "Gesundheit. You're up kinda late."

She laughed nervously. "I guess you could say that. Maybe training every night was a bit of a bad idea. Though I don't train for the full hour but I might've over done it."

"Y-yeah, I was out training a bit and--" She turned her head away to sneeze. "Apparently I caught a cold with it. Sorry about that. I don't normally get sick. Maybe it's a sign I've been overdoing it." She laughed nervously.

"Every night? You will just overwork and tired yourself out that way." While Allen was diligent in his own training, he made sure to get plenty of rest. "It'd carry over onto the next day."

A sympathetic smile was offered, Devola taking a seat in a nearby chair. Talking with people was far more interesting than walking all by one's lonesome at this hour, especially with murders like Kaito's left unsolved. "Well, it seems to be getting colder out as of late for whatever reason. Nothing like a prolonged change in body temperature to trigger a sickness, right?"

She scratched her chin, musingly. "Maybe find some warmer clothing? Or like you said, take more time to rest..."

"It's nice to meet you, Ledah," she returned the nod. "I've been here a little more than a month. You called me 'one of the others who can summon Personas'. Does that mean you haven't been able to summon yours? Sorry, that was probably not my place to ask."

"Yeah, I think I'm learning that lesson right now," she laughed softly. "It's just a cold from the looks of it. Don't worry, I should be fine once I recovered. The last thing I'd want is to be a burden to others."

"Yeah, it's finally get a little chillier at night now since the season's changing. I actually don't mind that since I'm kind of used to cold weather where I'm from. So quite possibly I just didn't give my body enough time to recover between training and work, so this is payback. I should be alright once I rest a bit."

Even though Saori should probably think about getting to bed, it was really nice to comeback to the hotel during time to talk to someone. Now that she had a job of sorts at the high school cafeteria, she didn't spend as much time in the hotel as she'd like to. Honestly, she wanted to learn more about everyone who was brought to Prospero. They all seemed to have such interesting stories about them.

"Season... change?" There was a slight inclination of the head to complete Devola's parrot-impersonation before she continued on, curiously. "Should I take that to mean it's going to get colder?"

Speaking of interesting stories, it would sound like this one comes from a strange place.

"That's right," she gave a nod. "The leaves will be changing colors before they fall and the local animals will be getting ready to either hibernate the winter season out or migrate to warmer areas. And while all that happens, life just goes on for us. Well, of course we're going to be needing warmer clothing the colder it gets. I'm guessing your homeworld's climate is stable all year round?"

Devola replied with a wry smile, "Well, consider that the changing of 'day and night' was kind of a new thing for me... Let's just say I've got some adapting to do as far as stuff mosta the rest of ya take for granted is concerned."

Really, if there was an award for "most messed-up" homeworld, she was starting to think she'd get rather high on the rankings.

"That's all right. I've called mine recently; I only meant to distinguish you from the natives of the island." He glanced around the room, seeing if any such natives were there to pay attention.

"And making everyone worry for you." It's a familiar thing for Allen to deal with.

"Even 'day and night' were foreign concepts in your world?" Saori blinked in amazement and sat up even more. "So what other concepts does this place have that your doesn't?" Who needs sleep? This was too interesting to pass up!

"Now that you put it that way, I get it. So what kind of Persona do you have?" A new Persona meant more possibilities in battles. She believed if she could collect information of every Personae it could be beneficial for everyone during battle, especially in the case of those events that happened during the full moon.

"There's that too," she smiled weakly though she did hung her head in shame. "I don't know if anyone here would seriously miss me but you do have a point. It's funny...my little brother used to say that to me too, even though he was the one who made me worry." Maybe Asuka would miss her for her free meals but she herself wasn't strongly attached to anyone just yet.

"You just need to spend more time with people, but...they'd notice if there's anything wrong." How hypocritical of him, since he do want to spend time with people...but opening himself up enough for it was hard.

"Bishamonten. A Persona of fire."

The dark Persona appeared for only a moment (http://images.wikia.com/megamitensei/images/2/23/Bishamonten.png) before it was gone.

"Ah, yeah. Aside from the obvious technology difference... lesse." And, speaking of technology, Devola began to count off on her fingers as she spoke.

So. High-tech.

"'Climate' was completely static: the only difference between the weather each day was how many clouds were out. Never had any rain, either, and as an aside I'm feeling a bit gypped now. Rain's a rather nice event. The sun was always out, like I said before ~~((except for side-stories where the creators forgot about their own setting, gdit cavia.))~~- and yeah, we were in contact with some places that were in a state of permanent darkness as well. Tides didn't seem to be much of a factor either - or not as much as they are here, anyway..."

She paused, searching her memory before shrugging. "Those are the biggest changes. Well, biggest aside from all the nifty machines you can find all over the place, here."

Now that was a Persona she recognized! Sometimes it pays off to be a mythology and folklore buff. "A fire one, huh? Brigid's fire-based as well." She let her own persona appear for a second before vanishing. Then she let out another sneeze. "Sorry about that."

"I should change that and start meeting up with the others. Well, once I'm over this cold anyway. I'm sure they won't be happy with catching my cold, after all," she laughed.

Saori looked at Devola in amazement. Actually, she looked more like a kid who walked into a candy store. Now this was a world she was curious about!

"Is this static climate natural or artificial? If you think rain is amazing, you'll be in a surprise when it gets really cold and the rain changes to snow."

"Don't apologize to me for your sickness." If they weren't in battle, it didn't affect him. Ledah sounded confused, really.

She tilted her head to the side ever-so slightly, Saori's reaction was... well, sort of unexpected. Then again, the few times Devola had exposited about home had garnered a different reaction each and every time.

"Snow? I'll look forward to it, I guess? ...Anyway, you're asking the wrong person about 'natural' or 'artificial', I didn't even know there could be an artificial climate until recently."

He laughed with her. "No one would." A bit of a cheeky grin. "Maybe that's an excuse to try doting on them."

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I'm so sorry I didn't get to this tag sooner.

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Speaking as a veritable diety of slowtagging, don't worry 'bout it~

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