needsnobottle | [12 - text] Absence

*Shit. How do you heal mental issues?
Sollux takes a seat on the floor near her and tries to keep his voice calm.*

Did something happen or did you just wake up like this?

No.

[She puts her hands on her head, tugs on the ends of her hair, staring at him as she struggles to piece it all together.]

I think...I woke up and it was gone.

Today? Or earlier?

*Hn. If she can't think...*

How much can you remember? Has this ever happened before?

*If its something this place did to her...he may only be able to try and calm her down and wait.*

[And Zeke just quickly walks on in in the middle of this wholesome conversation. (Okay not really). He doesn't even notice Sollux right away, not that Zeke would probably recognize him very well. Sorry Sollux.

He gets down on his knees in front of Tammy. OH GOD WHATS WRONG IS EVERYTHING OKAY DON'T DIE ;A;]

Tams? Oi, what's wrong?

[Mental overload. Too many questions that jumble up together and mix around in her head. Forget trying to force her mind to string together responses, or even form responses. As soon as they both ask the questions they muddy up her mind and she can't repeat them.

Instead she turns her gaze to Zeke. The voice is familiar, and the face probably is too, but she can't bring it all together. She can't bring anything together.

So she says the only name that can come to mind, the name she lost that she'd resented so much, before she'd known how vital it was.]

Antalyon.

*Sollux knows its too many questions, he's just not sure which need to be asked first. He frowns slightly at Zeke's arrival, taking it as the main reason for Tammy's current overload. But Zeke is here to help, and seems harmless, so he won't Chase the chef away.
He furrows his brow, trying to find anything at all familiar about the word (name? place? thing?) Tammy spoke, but unable to do so.*

Do you know when this started?

[Zeke was about to ask who the fuck Antalyon was, but then Sollux spoke! Zeke looks over at him in surprise, because he wasn't expecting someone else to have arrived. Oh well!

Zeke scoots back a little to give Tammy a little more air and shuts up.]

I don't know...time.

[She has no idea how long it's been happening. She can't remember if she has slept, or eaten, or done anything. She struggles, for a minute, rubbing her hand to her forehead, looking at Sollux and Zeke. There's a slight comfort in their presence but it fights against her frustration, desperation.]

It. He took it. Antalyon.

What is antalyon?

[Okay, she can handle this much. Her hand is already rubbing at her head, as if she can somehow connect all the dots with just to force of her fingertips. She points, pressing her index finger to the center of her forehead.]

Djinn. I'm a... [She groans in frustration, fingers curling, knowing she knew the word and unable to find it now.] bottle. Granting wishes.

Djinn...

*Like Djinni? Like Barti? She had known something about them, but Tammy doesn't seem anything like that fuck.
It may explain the question about what people wish for not too long ago. Hm.*

It'll be back.

*Or, at least, he was really hoping this was part of the forced human ~~event~~ ~~punishment~~ change lately.*

[...Well huh. That was kind of unexpected. He knew another Djinn and he never even knew it. Oh well.

Zeke wraps his arms around Tammy's shoulders and pulls her into a comforting little hug.]

Yeah. You're gonna be fine. Don't worry.

[She wants to believe that, and they can probably tell that from the look in her eyes. Almost childlike as she leans on Zeke, looking from Sollux to him and back again. They both said it and it needs to be true. Tammy can't live with being this incapable in simply thinking.]

When?

...I don't know. If not soon we'll find it for you.

*Or try to, at least.*

Might take a few days. Maybe a week. But we'll be here for ya until then. Promise.

[Tammy nods and almost goes limp against Zeke, the only tension found in her arms as they wind around him and hold on with surprising strength.]

Why did Deior take it?

He's a bastard. He likes to watch us suffer.

*Sollux is 100% convinced of this.*

Welp, for whatever reason he made everyone who wasn't human, human. So I guess that meant takin' Antalyon.

But I need it.

[She hadn't known, before now, how much she needed it. And now? That knowledge terrifies her.]

*God damn that bastard Deior.*

He takes what we need and he laughs.
But we won't let him keep it.

*Hopefully she'll go back to normal once they all turn back into themselves again...though at times going after the lord to force answers, or people, out of him sounded really nice.*

[Zeke gives Tammy a comforting squeeze.]

Everyone'll be back to normal in a few days. You'll see.

[Tammy accepts the comfort, or rather tries to allow it to comfort her. But it's difficult, when her thoughts barely connect with one another past the pounding realization that she needs the djinn back.]

He should be punished.

[The way he punished the rest of them.]

...he should be. One day maybe we'll get to do it.

*Sollux really doubt that, but he also really hopes for it.*

For now...what can we do?

[He's not even going to comment on the punishment thing.]

We take care of her. Tammy, when's th'last time you ate something?

Don't...

[She shakes her head, the effort of thinking back, or attempting to, too great for her.]

Don't know.

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if i werent at work id find more human icons.

darn work! always gets in the way

not sure which of these two to tag, but since only tammy spoke to sollux...

WHOOPS i fixed it

No worries! \o/

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keke says for sollux to go again then she'll have zeke jump in

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hhhhh sorry im taking forever

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