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ϡ - Appointments Post

This post here is for personal conversations which should happen but one or both of us doesn't want to put up a new post/log and thus we will just thread it out here. This can be used to thread with Helios anytime and anywhere. This can either be in person (with action), or via the journal's call feature (voice and/or written).

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Yes, it does. Eventually. I-I suppose that's why they say patience is a virtue, really. Or so I've always thought.

[...a pause, before he passes the box of jasmine teal eaves over to Helios.]

S-Sorry. I, I left my glasses back in the apartment. [And he did, that's true enough.] Would you mind reminding me how long this should steep for?

Well it's never easy setting things right but patience does hel-

[ He stops mid-sentence as Giles hands over that box. Helios will just...stare at it not saying anything. He could make up a number...or he could honest and just say what he's being dealing with since he got back. Giles is going to figure out eventually anyway. ] I-I don't know. I, I mean I can't. M-Maybe three minutes? Um...something like that.

[ He wished he knew off the top of his head. He looks so embarrassed to even say this but, you cause him Giles. ] I can't read it.

[The kettle chooses that moment to whistle, hopefully sparing Helios some embarassment by attracting Giles' attention. He pulls it off the stove and pours some of the water into Helios' mug. Then he takes the box and squints at it.]

Could be a three...then again, it could also be an eight.

[He looks over at Helios again, all the sympathy in the world born in his expression. Yep. You're busted, Helios.]

Let's start with three.

[ It's mumbled and almost apologetic. Helios will just be looking at something that isn't that box. ]

Three, three sounds good. Could do a taste test to be sure.

I'll spare you the potential horrors.

...it's nothing to be ashamed of, Helios.

I can't read Giles. I can't even recognize the symbols of my own spells. I write things down and can't read it after wards.

[ It's terribly inconvenient and impossibly frustrating. ] But they always have to take something I suppose. It could certainly be worse.

Yes, it could. But I imagine that that's, um, quite hard to accept from your end of things.

[Tentatively.] I can read again. Finally. I'd be happy to help, however I can.

It's better than losing my magic. I wouldn't put it past them to-to take that away from me. [ He's rather thankful they didn't. ]

It might be a...good opportunity to brush up with the spirits at least. I have been making progress with Hyt and I'd love to continue to do so.

[ Helios will look back at Giles a smile on his face. ] I'd appreciate that Giles, really.

...I never knew your magic was that important to you. But, um, i-if you're going to try and contact Hyt, y-you might be able to help me. I've been...well, while I was blind, I didn't have much else to do.

[He looks back at Helios with a similar smile.] Well...you know the old saying. Pay it forward, and all that. There were a few villagers who actually did the same for me while I was blind. Reading aloud when I couldn't, I mean. It's the least I could do for you.

But even if that hadn't been the case...I'd be happy to.

Not, not just for me Giles. But you, Frederic, everyone else. I-I can protect and at least help people with it. It's not a fundamental part of me, when you look at it, but it is something I can use to help others. So it's still important to me in those regards. Not, not that I can't help people without it. But it does make it somewhat easier at times.

I wouldn't mind helping you. Hyt can be a bit tricky to contact. It took me an entire year just to hear it. [ Helios shakes his head. ]

Pay it forward, hm? Well you've nothing to repay me for. But I still wouldn't mind the assistance.

...I understand.

I don't really have much power of my own. Or, well, any, really. So I...

...but I do understand. As long as you understand that you aren't any less without your powers.

And I have plenty to repay you for, Helios. But this isn't some, some grand gesture to balance the scales. Not this time. It's offering my assistance because I was in a similar situation for well over a month and I remember how it drove me up a wall.

Simple as that. [He picks up the mug and sniffs it curiously, before nodding in satisfaction and turning back to the counter.]

Yes, three minutes was right.

Of course. Everyone is different, everyone affects one another in a different sort of way as well. Powers or no. I don't use my magic very much as it is, to be honest. I suppose that comes with having a school filled with normal human students who aren't exactly knowledgeable that magic exists. But I do understand. After all in a place like this...sometimes even powers aren't enough. [ Helios will look at the floor and then back at Giles. ]

No you don't. I...don't want you to feel like you need to repay me for anything, Giles. Friends tend to do crazy things for one another, don't they?

[ Helios will look over a certain light flickering in his eyes. ] It smells delicious. I haven't had Jasmine tea in what feels like ages.

They do, yes. The pair of us are, well, living proof of that.

...I'm just, um, not used to having friends. Not, not like you and Frederic. So you'll have to forgive me if I...stumble, at points.

[He holds up a hand, hiding a smile at Helios' pronouncement.] Hold on. It's not quite done. The goal is to get you to sleep, yes?

I need to add a few things first.

I-I understand. Between you and me, you and Frederic are the closest people I have and not just here. Because, well, back home...back home there's- [ a lot of people that despise and hate him but that's not the point. ]

There is Varron and...that's about it. Of course there's Ra and all of the other mythica too but, but they're obviously different from what we have.

[ But that makes him even more curious. ] Yes that was the main goal of this endeavor. What are you going to add, exactly?

I would like to meet Varron someday. He sounds like a very good man.

[Giles doesn't respond to the question. He shows, instead, with movements as quick and deft as a strange little dance.

A splash of milk gets added into the still warm kettle for about thirty seconds before being mixed in. Then some clove honey from the cabinet. Then about half a different dashes of different leaves from different boxes of tea. Then some brown sugar. All is carefully stirred.

Then, and only then, does he pass the mug over to Helios.]

I would advise going back to your room before you drink it. I've been told that it hits like a train.

[And it will. This mix was made up in an attempt to keep Faith quiet through a night, and while Giles has toned the mix down several degrees, it should still be enough to put Helios out.]

You might one day. Given this place and all.

[ Helios watches as Giles prepares it. It'd be easier to remember if he could read what teas were used. But making mental notes of what the boxes look like helps.

Helios takes the mug with a bemused look when Giles finishes. ] That powerful, oh my. Dare I ask why this concoction came into creation, or is that stone best left unturned? [ He'll swirl the liquid in his mug, looking at it all the while, with a smirk. ]

You should try making it for Frederic one of these days. He's...been having trouble sleeping too. I think he'd appreciate it. But thank you, Giles.

Faith. Slayers are, well, naturally nocturnal people, and while we were traveling together her dreams were...did you know that Slayers could have prophetic dreams? Given the circumstances, I'm amazed they weren't worse than they were.

...I should, you're right. Helios, he looks awful.

Prophetic dreams? You never mentioned that, no. They're like seers or just in dreams they can only predict the future? [ That is rather fascinating to him.

But his expression changes to something more somber. ]

He does. He...he's being have these nightmares. And, and I'm not sure what to do. I asked him to go visit Paprika. [ They're all in a serious need to go visit her. ] With everything that's happened and his own problems before Luceti...I am worried about him.

Just in dreams. It's not consistent or predictable, but Buffy in particular has shown an ability to predict the arrival of serious troubles before they arrive.

However, the power cap has had the proportionate effects on her dreams, or so she's told me.

[Giles was about to leave the kitchen, maybe lead Helios back to the apartment. That stops him dead, however.]

...visiting Paprika is, um, generally adviseable, under these circumstances.

...I'll help however I can until we can talk him round.

I see. It might be a good thing not to have, in all honesty. Given what happens here.

[ Helios will have been following Giles only to stop when he does. He almost ran into you Giles, derp. ]

Y-Yes. I think we should try to talk to him at, at least until Paprika gets involved.

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She certainly seems to prefer it this way.

[...fine. Back to the apartment, then. Quiet as church mice.]

Between the two of us...well, between the two of us and this, at least...[He holds up the mug.]...it should help.

[He doesn't sound terribly hopeful, though. It's hard to sound hopeful about anything very much, after the month the two of them have had.]

I can't say I don't blame her.

[ Helios holds up his own in conjunction with Giles' motion. ] It will.

[ Helios on the other hand tries to. Even if he knows in the back of his mind it might not. But right now? Right now it will even if it's only for a few brief minutes. ]

If it helps, I can point out to him that I spoke with Paprika earlier today and she was her usual, unflappable self.

Ah she was, was she? [ Helios might have a slight smile on his lips. ] Well having someone like that here is helpful, given her line of work and the general nature of this place. But I think that will definately be a good idea.

I think it will. Especially if he isn't sleeping. Or if you're not sleeping. And we've established that I'm not.

...I hate to think how we'll manage when she's sent home.

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