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 Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:03 pm
She'd been trying to find a reasonable balance between taking care of Jericho and being completely up in his grill with concern. However, waiting for the dragon to contact her was a far-and-few-between meeting of the minds. She'd jokingly put up a 'WANTED: ONE DRAGON, IF FOUND PLEASE CONTACT' poster on his door, but after that....
Ultimately, Shehk had trekked her way back to the dragon's room to see what had been going on as of late. He'd been acting rather peculiar, and based on some things? She kind of felt like it was time for a little status update with how he was holding up.
Plus, she had some other motivations to go and talk to him as well, rapping on his door lightly before calling to him; "Jericho? You in?"
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 7:06 pm
"Where else would I be?" Jericho replied, sounding a little tired. It wasn't long after he spoke that he opened up his door to let in the Pricolici. His room was a little cleaner now, seeing that Lizzy had actually came in to help clean it. However, the treasure pile was notably smaller than it usually was.
"Something up?"
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:32 pm
"I don't know..." Shehk replied, but something about her tone as she answered implied that something scared her about that confession. However, as she stepped into the dragon's room, her eyes traced over it, taking in the treasure pile, but not saying anything about it.
She already knew, after all, and it wasn't her place to tell him that she did - or that it wasn't as far away as it could have been.
"I may have a few things on my mind." she answered first, before she pressed back with her own inquiry, "Anything happening with you I should know about?"
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 10:56 pm
Jericho closed the door after she came on in, then turned towards her with a sense of confusion. Something was going here but he wasn't so certain what that was.
"Nothing that I can think of right no--" he paused. Well. There was... one thing. There was a visible shift in the dragon as he recalled this one incident, going from a fairly neutral or calm state to one that was more upset.
"Wait... No. One thing. A... little while back. I heard her. I heard her screaming in pain... It.. It wasn't just us. Malodore heard it too.." he murmured.
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:11 am
She actually hadn't been expecting to hear that from him at all - the shock showed more clearly on her canid features than it did her face, but it was obvious Shehk was surprised by this. 'Her'. That meant Riley, there was nobody else they would have been referring to. Riley..... if it was both Jericho and Malodore, then....
"Jack...that..." she half cupped her chin in her hand. "That's something. That could mean..." She didn't want to say it, get either of their hopes up too high, but... if Riley could scream, that meant she was there somehow.
"But how about just with you?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:16 am
Jericho furrowed his brow as he glanced down. He knew very well what it meant.
"Mal is going to go to the Boogeys... see if it could find out more..."
There was a sense of longing in his tone, but he knew full well he couldn't go anywhere near that place. It was far too dangerous. The question she said caught him a little off guard. Staring at the undead for a moment or so, he slowly shook his head.
"Nothing.. really worth noting..."
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:58 am
Shehk's brows furrowed a bit at the news that Malodore was going to the Boogies to see what it could find out about Riley. The smallest twinge of hope, but... The pricolici offered him a smile. "I'm sure you'll be the first one to find out what comes of it."
It would have been very...off...for it to have been any other way, really. Malodore and Jericho would always be the first ones to know of any news of Riley - or the Insanity, she felt like.
His 'nothing worth noting' caused her to take a glance around his room again, but she didn't press the topic. If he wasn't going to come forward to her about the state of things, she wasn't going to hike his stress level up by pressing about it. "That's good to know. You've just been kind of reclusive lately, so I wanted to check in on you and see how you were doing." she replied, leaving it at that.
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:09 pm
"We know... but... it's safer here. Just over all. No questioning students. Harder to dissipate too," Jericho said with a sigh, glancing away. It wasn't as bad when he could cover up the insanity easily with a shirt. But the patches had spread to his wings which made things much more complicated and risky.
"Never know if a boogey could be lurking outside too.." he uttered.
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:24 pm
"Being reclusive doesn't just mean staying holed up in here, y'know.." she jerked a thumb towards the door. But she understood why he was staying inside. He was turning her color. Sometime she'd bring some red paint to try and paint over the grey spots with, see if that did anything for his appearance.
"They'd have to pull my fangs out before any Boogies got you." she said, reaching out to brush her hand across his shoulder in an attempt to be comforting.
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:27 pm
"We know we know..." he sighed while looking to the door. He hadn't been keeping in contact with his friends all too much either. Perhaps a part of Jericho was afraid he'd end up lashing out at them. His emotions and moods were generally more unstable than usual.
At the small bit of comfort though, he offered a weak smile in turn.
"Thanks.. Ah.. go ahead and have a seat.. anywhere."
Since he didn't really have chairs. He used to have one for his desk, but that had been broken at some point.
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:42 pm
She kind of felt bad, like she'd been guilt-tripping him or something without meaning to. "I know I'm the last person you need coming over here to fuss and worry over you, and I'm sorry I do it. I just...I do...." she wrung her hair over her shoulder somewhat anxiously before she looked around at the potential 'sitting' places in his room.
They were about as plentiful as her own room... well, actually, she had a bed at least.
'Anywhere' ended up being a rather strange place, as Shehk put her arms around his shoulders and used them to hoist herself up into a strange curling position against his chest, supported...pretty much by her arms. She flashed him a grin.
"Is here alright then?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:00 pm
Well, Jericho didn't quite expect her to basically use him as a seat. There was a little color rising to his cheeks as a result.
"Er.. well... we did say anywhere," he replied before giving a weak chuckle. He soon let out a breath and relaxed himself, not too sure how else to react to that.
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:18 pm
She laughed a bit, mostly only able to sustain such a position from FEARleading - she'd confess to it too if asked about it. But he hadn't asked about it, instead indulging her playful whim.
"That you did." she replied with a small tilt of her head before she shifted her weight to 'sit' facing him, which required a small re-shuffle of limbs, mostly having to hold onto Jericho's sides with her knees as she settled back in a bit.
"So. You're not going to ask me what I may or may not have had on my mind?" she inquired.
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:44 pm
"That did.. come to mind. That and... how are you doing this?" Jericho said while blinking. He just seemed a bit confused in a few different ways right now.
"But what did you have on your mind?"
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Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:57 pm
She couldn't help but laugh at the look on his face. "I'm a big strong ghoul, that's how." she answered at first, moving to flex her arms, only to nearly topple back, grabbing onto his shoulders again to pull herself forward again bashfully. "And practice. Being a FEARleader has developed a lot of muscle groups for acrobatics, plus a relatively good sense of balance. I could do a handstand on your shoulders and just hold it until you bucked me off." she explained as though it was very simple. Which it kind of was.
"I have a few things on my mind, actually. But one of two of them may be in regards to you." she continued, her tail beginning to wag. " But I think the one you need to know is in regards to the lovely event we've been planning up.
So really what is on my mind, is I was wondering if you'd be my date for Prom."
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