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w0 tuesday

[stillsea]

[ he’s in the prop room squinting up at the t-rex! ]

Is this supposed to be a dragon...?

[alt1]

It looks kinda like Rexy, actually! A Tyrannosaurus rex— [ side glance at Leng Feng, because it's been pretty hit-or-miss with people knowing what anything is ]

A dinosaur.

[ Oh, nice- he has to find a sturdy box to stand on in order to reach the inner mechanisms of the dinosaur head that makes its jaws open and close. chomp chomp at leng feng's head ]

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[ good instincts because his response to that is, ] What's a dinosaur? Some kind of demon?

[ almost doesn't notice it chomping at him but he hears the mechanisms turn and jerks away so it only grabs his ponytail ]

H-Hey! Let go!

[alt1]

[ he indulges himself with a final lil nibble at the end of Leng Feng's ponytail before Mikoto acquiesces and sets him free ]

I guess you could say it's like a wingless dragon! A real dinosaur wouldn't have let you off easily, though, especially a carnivore like the T-rex. It would've swallowed you whole.

w1 monday

[stillsea]

Hey, Mikoto. Did you hear about this whole show thing before you signed on for your season?

[alt1]

Ehh...

[ sets them down in the cafeteria, mikoto with a mug of coffee in his hands that he's maybe better off without but is drinking anyways ]

Nothing about the details, but there was a recruiter, right...? That's how everybody described it: a recruiter, and a contract. Why, do you remember differently?

[stillsea]

No, that's pretty much what I remember, too. I was just wondering about that sponsorship thing they mentioned when talking about tasks... I don't think I understand how that works when this whole show doesn't really exist in my world, as far as I know.

[alt1]

Oh, that. They just want connections to wealthy people, that sort of sponsorship. It doesn't matter if they watch the show or not. Do you know many rich people, A-Feng?

[ isn't he a prince or something ]

w2 sunday

[stillsea]

[ where is mikoto? roomie is coming to find him. ]

Mikoto, are you doing alright? You looked a little freaked out earlier.

[ when narja showed up... ]

[alt1]

[ mikoto would have typically spent his free time back in his trailer catching up on sleep, but today he's loitering in the parking lot where the training dummies are. he's not using them, or is even dressed for any sort of training, but just contemplating. ]

Hey, A-feng. I'm okay. I just didn't expect them to choose the cat, haha...

[ it really wasn't funny, that first two minutes of execution that he'd seen, but he can't help the nervous laugh. ]

[stillsea]

I don't think any of us did. Whoever's in charge of this stuff really has a messed up sense of humor. [ sighs. ] He should be okay now, though, so there's that.

[alt1]

[ should've been a cookie getting eaten, not the cat ]

That's good. You stayed to watch the entire thing? I didn't really watch it last time, either.

[ he'd left halfway through makima's, which is just as well. this one he heard was even more of a spectacle. ]

w3 sunday

[alt1]

[ he wakes up in 3 hours, as if no time had passed at all, sitting up by the antenna with a hand clutched around his throat, dropping it to touch his side, and lastly to scrub at his face.

all dry. ]

[stillsea]

[ leng feng is waiting for them anxiously... maybe pacing for a while. revival really takes so damn long but at least they come eventually. and when mikoto wakes up, leng feng kneels nearby - not too close to crowd, but close enough to reassure, he hopes. ]

Mikoto! Are you alright?

[alt1]

[ he lifts his head, slow, that same way as before where he's responding to a name but not his name. the look he gives leng feng is blank, mostly, not entirely here, and after a moment he looks away to glance around the area instead. ]

Where is she.

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[ surprise flashes in his eyes at that response, but he pushes it aside. he'd hoped that mikoto might be back after reviving... but they'll figure this out. somehow. ]

I'm sorry. She isn't here. [ not yet, anyway. ] You should probably give each other space for a while.

w5 tuesday

[stillsea]

[ sometime after the mail..... but also it's transformation week, so leng appears to be a little watery and drippy this week but otherwise normal. ]

Hey, Mikoto, did you get something in the mail like the others?

[ also does he. look healed up. this is the real reason leng feng wants to check on him. ]

[alt1]

[ he looks fine. whatever scarring might be on his neck is covered with his choker, and if he looks exhausted then that's the usual look. meanwhile leng feng is wet and mikoto's just like oh he must've just gotten out of the spa, poor guy deserves some stress relief ]

Me? Nothing this time, but there was some mail left in my room earlier. I wonder if I picked them up by accident, or they got addressed to me by accident?

[ because he hasn't written anything since he and leng feng agreed to write to the contestants all those weeks ago, and whatever his other self wrote he has no idea. ]

[stillsea]

[ at least he's healed... he'll leave it at that for now and not ask. as much as he wants to know what the hell happened to make him mad before, it's no use now. ]

Nah, I doubt it. They take a while to get back to us sometimes. But I meant from the coupon things - it's supposed to let us get stuff from home, right? I'm just not sure what to ask for.

w6 monday

[alt1]

[ bang! crash! LOUD NOISES COMING FROM OUTSIDE TRAILER #4 WHY IS IT ALWAYS LENG FENG'S TRAILER

at least this time it's only half, specifically mikoto's half that opens out to a pile of broken furniture tossed out the door that he's going ham on with a metal baseball bat ]

[stillsea]

[ hey do you know who has superhuman hearing and probably could've heard this from an absurd distance. your fucking roomie what the hell is going on here ]

Mikoto? What's going on? Did something happen?

[ also he is dragonish today ]

[alt1]

[ you know who got halfway through the furniture before realizaing maybe earplugs are a good thing to have to save his hearing and so he went and got some and now he can't hear?

he only looks up when leng feng gets close enough, pulling out of the plugs out of his ear ]

Huh? Did you say something?

w6 thursday

[alt1]

[ it's later

way later. narja is fine. fukawa too. night has fallen.

will leng feng be in his trailer? ]

[stillsea]

[ he is not in his trailer, but mikoto is welcome to look for him! where to, buddy? ]

[alt1]

[ he is not going to. he is going to curl up on leng feng's front steps in the cold and the dark and wait until this becomes a friday morning pc maybe. ]