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Stepping in after her, he moved to take his leather coat off, then turned to see how she was taking in her surroundings. Shun noticed that there was an odd look upon her face briefly. Confused, he looked to see what she was looking at, noticing his guitar by the wall.

"..Is there something wrong?" he asked. There was a hint of concern in his voice, but he wasn't really sure what to make of things at the moment. He then walked on over by his bed to go ahead and remove his eyepatch in the meantime. It wasn't likely that they were going to be going out again tonight anyway.

Once the patch was off, he lightly rubbed the scarred area of his face, then motioned her to go ahead and have a seat on the bed.

Shun furrowed his brow at that, again not sure what to make of it. The flicker had been brief and in that time he couldn't really tell what it was that had gone through her mind. Did he just imagine it? Hrm. He just watched her for a moment or so, then paused as she came up towards him, holding still as gently touched his face.

"It did hurt... but Hel had it far worse. Her wings were ripped straight off," he said quietly. Mitsu, after all, had seen Hel now. And she notably did not have wings.

"Adapting hadn't been easy, but you were there for me to help," he whispered, then moved to sit onto the bed. Gingerly.

Nodding quietly, Shun let out a small breath, "I'm sure you will. You just need to recover.."

The Reaper soon hesitated as she urged him to rest, looking down at his bed as she tried to coax him into it. He wasn't so sure about this.

"..What about you? You need rest too.." he said quietly. The way she had worded things made it sound like she didn't have plans on sleeping, herself. But he knew she was tired. It was in the way she moved.

Shun didn't struggle against her and did lay down with his arms lightly wrapped around her. His gaze shifted away briefly as he tried to decide what to do. But now that he was laying down in the bed and with Mitsu in his arms, he could feel the urge to close his eye and just relax hit him hard.

"..I... I'll try.."

Maybe the nightmares would keep at bay now that he had relieved some of the burden that he had regarding the situation.

"Maybe..just a little while.." he whispered while shifting a little closer to her and finally closing his eye with a sigh.

With a sigh, he settled himself down against his lycan. His breathing slowly eased, soothed by her voice and the feel of her warm body resting against his own.

Shun did manage to fall asleep. However, nightmares still plagued him. He still couldn't do anything to change the course of the dream itself, and found himself forced to sit through it while he was trying to get himself to wake up. While he was still asleep, he shifted uncomfortably. It wasn't hard to see that he wasn't resting all too well.

"Mitsu.. n-no..." he whimpered quietly.

Only a few more moments of this before he snapped awake, just a couple hours after he had laid down.

To his relief, Mitsu was still there besides him. Though, as Shun shifted up to look at her, he furrowed his brow as she was in a bit of an odd position. Her hand was pressed to her mouth. She looked... he wasn't really sure how it was. Normally when she slept now, she was out like a rock and didn't move at all. No amount of nudging or prodding or whatever caused her to stir in the slightest. She just didn't move until she awoke. Carefully, he looked her over. She wasn't shaking... or fidgeting around. Nor was she making any noises to indicate she had a bad dream of her own.

She was just...

Laying there on her with her hand covering her mouth. Gently, he tried to nudge her, but it didn't stir her as usual. He was baffled. That wasn't exactly a normal way to sleep. Even then... why would she have covered her mouth?

The reaper was confused, but he didn't have anything that would give him an answer. He was also a little.. disturbed. If she had for some reason fallen asleep like that.. what did it mean? He really didn't know what to make of this.

Staying by, he decided not to move her any further. He wanted to see if she would move on her own while she slept. With a sort of sigh, he laid back down beside her, lightly keeping an arm around her. From there, he just watched. Quietly. Waiting. There was no telling when she would awaken.

This was concerning Shun a fair deal. She didn't move at all, and so her hand remained over her mouth the entire time. He remained patient though, determined to try see this through. Though, he shifted himself now and then to get more comfortable, he didn't try to move her any further. Her breath was barely there as well. And then... she just suddenly awoke. No stirring. Just eyes shooting open before the hand finally moved away.

This was really bizarre. And he didn't know how to explain it. But he fairly certain that this was not normal.

The stretching looked... odd too. Like she was doing it without really needing it. Concerned, he looked her over. Despite how heavily she slept, she looked just as tired more or less.

"Sort of. I didn't stay asleep for very long," he said quietly while lightly wrapping his arms around her.

"You still look very tired. Is... there something going on with you that you aren't telling me?"

He was talking on a physical level. She could be hiding some effect she feels. All in all, he was just trying to piece everything together but it didn't quite add up.

Shun glanced down as she fiddled with his shirt lightly for the moment, then looked back at her. He furrowed his brow as her eyes suddenly went wide. She said that she was just tired but... there had to be something more to it. Why else would she have reacted like that? The Reaper stared into her eyes as if trying to find some sort of answer, then glanced down at the collar around her neck.

He touched it briefly, running his fingers over the runes carved into it. Just what did this do? There were a number of guesses, but he had nothing solid. Grimacing, he turned towards her.

"I need you to be completely honest with me," he said softly, "I can't help you if I don't know what's going on."