[right][color=0076a3][h3][b]Ryuuichi[/b][/h3][/color]Bjyerlfal City || Camphor’s Lab: Reception Area || Time: Morning [/right][hr] [quote=A New, Sudden Voice] [color=92278f]"There's a restroom [i]over... there[/i] I believe if you want to get some wa-,"[/color][/quote] Before the girl talking to him can reply, a new voice suddenly appears. Just like the girl's voice before when she first talked to him, this new voice also makes Ryuuichi flinch once again. Even though it had happened moments ago, the act of someone suddenly coming up to him and talking out of the blue will never stop being a bit of a shock to him. If those "[color=00aeef]lights[/color]" are to be believed and not a sign of him going crazy, then there are... a lot of people / Pokemon in the room. Thankfully, the pain from his current migraine and nausea is preventing them from returning by making it nearly impossible for him to focus properly. As painful as it is, Ryuuichi can't help but want them to stick around forever. [quote=Ms. Frieda] "Since everyone's here, I'll go see if the professor is ready so we can get everyone on their way. I'll be back in a few minutes, hopefully."[/quote] He recognizes that voice. It is the same one from that rather harsh, but completely correct email. The one that actually approved of his application. It also reminds him with an additional sting to the left side of his head that he has a job to try and, hopefully, not fail at. [quote=???] [color=92278f]"Uhm, look. How about you stay here and chat with the kid while I go get some water for him. I'm not much of a conversationalist after all."[/color][/quote] Some kind of... buzz? Is that a Pokemon or someone's phone? [quote=???] [color=92278f]"... you're not either Vivi."[/color][/quote] Another buzz. [quote=???] [color=92278f]"Anyways, does that sound good?"[/color][/quote] Any curiosity about how many people or Pokemon are currently crowding around him is immediately outweighed by the throbbing pain to the left side of his head, which makes him clench it a bit tighter. Sadly the back and forth conversation happening right around him is also just making it worse and making it harder and harder to want to keep staying here. A double edged sword in how it keeps the "lights" at bay while further piling more into his skull. [quote=???] [color=steelblue]"Thank you, though I've also got a bottle with fresh water in it. Can see if he's ok with sipping from it until you're back, perhaps, unless he wants tap water."[/color][/quote] At least it isn't a new voice. This meant that, as far as Ryuuichi can tell even in his current state, two people and one Pokemon / phone are around him. He doesn't need the "lights" to notice that. He doesn't want them back. Yet Ryuuichi can't figure out what to say at all or how to get into this back and forth conversation that is happening right in his ears. It may have been a slow conversation to others, yet to Ryuuichi its moving at a mile a minute. [quote=???][color=steelblue]"Hey. Got some fresh, cool water [i]here in this[/i] bottle. You can sip on it for now until someone gets back with a cup of water if you want to, but no rush. We can even try to get away from the crowd, if you need some breathing room."[/color][/quote] Water. [color=0076a3]"Um..."[/color] he stammers, stopping. A long, five second pause is how long it takes for Ryuuichi to formulate the next batch of poorly and awkwardly spoken words. [color=0076a3]"T...That sounds expensive... t-tap water is... fine."[/color] He can't figure out how else to turn down the offer. In the five long seconds he took, those are the only words that his brain is able to formulate in response. As nice as that cold water sounds, he can't continue to be a liability, as Camphor had put it, and [color=0076a3][i]leech[/i][/color] off of others like a [color=0076a3][i]burden[/i][/color]. Be it his parents or strangers he just met. [color=0076a3]"And well... I... I can stay right here. I d-don't want to... hit someone..."[/color] he begins, his clenched fist absentmindedly grasping at something that is next to him on the couch cushion he is currently sitting on, [color=0076a3]"with my cane"[/color] is how he finishes that statement. Now grasped in the clenched fist that isn't rubbing the left side of his head is what seems to be a forearm length, collapsible cane or baton of some kind. The entire length of it is white, with the exception of the rather bright red tip of it. The bottle being held up to his face also elicits no reaction from Ryuuichi. He doesn't turn or move his head at all to face it in any capacity. [color=0076a3]"I'm umm... b--"[/color] his quiet voice chokes on the one word out of many that reminds him of his [color=0076a3][i]horrible[/i][/color] actions the most.[color=0076a3]"blind... after all"[/color] is what still manages to let out anyway despite this. He doesn’t want to, yet he has to explain why he has this weird cane and how he could possibly accidentally hit someone with it. Although part of him does want to go that bathroom and just stay there, the fear of accidentally smacking someone in the shin or stabbing their toes keeps him firmly rooted to the couch. Such actions perhaps would only cause Camphor to be even madder at him and make her fire him on the spot. This is one of the main reasons why he has not moved from this couch for the entire time since he has gotten here, having gotten here even before Remi, Nevine, Laurel, and Svein. 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