4th floor common room: Thursday afternoon

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

After talking with Broots, Blair had decided that some space would be good. He ventured out into the common room and grabbed a seat, flipping through daytime television shows at random.

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[nadiathesaint]

Nadia was wandering around looking for people. She did that, sometimes.

"Hey, Blair, what're you watching?"

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Clowns and the women who love them." Blair said, blinking at the talk show worriedly.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia turned to look at the television and grimaced. "Yeeee. There are some weird people in the world."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"This was the least strange of the talk show choices." Blair shook his head. "Or at least the only one that didn't involve midgets."

[nadiathesaint]

"I don't know. Midgets might be less weird than clowns." Nadia grabbed a seat and watched with a sort of morbid fascination. "Oh, thanks for the meditation lesson, by the way. Do you think we could try again, some time? Like that spirit plane stuff?"

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Not a problem, we can do that sometime." Blair looked over at Nadia curiously. "How'd that work out for you? The dream thing?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia shrugged. "I tried it again with Aziraphale, to see if he could pick up on anything that I wasn't able to. But we didn't manage to identify who it was. Had to wait for Parker's email, for that." She sighed, leaning back on the couch. "We did manage to get that it was someone being possessed though. Aziraphale thinks that maybe the demon thingy is blocking the dreams, or something."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, Parker and her emails." Blair frowned. "Does Phale have a plan for unblocking it or anything?"

[nadiathesaint]

"He might have?" Nadia shook her head. "But I think after the email went out, the thing tried harder or something. I mean, it knew I had them, because I told it when I thought it was just Bel helping with Cally. But now, I keep falling asleep in random places and having really weird or dumb dreams, like, what happens 30 seconds after I wake up. Which is usually someone telling me I shouldn't be sleeping in the common room or on the gym floor. So now we really don't know what to do. That's why I want to try the meditation, again. Maybe there's a way to find what's screwing with me and fix it."

[iftheseshadows.livejournal.com]

After talking with Tori, Neil decided to search out a snack. He wasn't above raiding the stores of other common rooms and thus came up off the stairs to search out what 4th floor might have laying about.

"Afternoon, Blair." He said when he saw the familiar curly hair of his classmate.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Neil." Blair nodded in his direction. "What're you doing?"

[iftheseshadows.livejournal.com]

"Raiding food." Neil said without remorse as he headed for the cupboards.

"Anything good on the TV?"

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Not really." Blair flipped through more channels. "Unless you find dysfunctional relationships or cooking shows good."

[iftheseshadows.livejournal.com]

"I live a dysfunctional relationship, don't need to watch it on TV." Neil muttered as he rumaged.

"Cooking show could be good though."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"I didn't catch that first part." Blair said, leaning back to watch Neil. "What'd you say?"

[iftheseshadows.livejournal.com]

Blinking from his spot in a cubboard chasing a bag of all natural popcorn, Neil blinked at Blair.

"Hmm? Oh, nothing important." He smiled.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Right." Blair raised an eyebrow and shrugged, turning back towards the TV. "What have you been up to lately?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

After classes, Billy came up to the common room. His experience in the salle (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhighdorms/979523.html?thread=80229443#t80229443) was still worrying him. And was it cold in the building or was it just him?

[fh_extras]

It wasn't just Billy. The room had become colder. Something was moving through the shadows towards Billy. If you listened hard enough you might hear a faint whisper in the air.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy leaned against the wall, sighing.

relax. you're not going insane. there's some other explanation. you're getting the flu or something. low body temperature and energy drain. surely hallucinations can result from that right?

Was the wall....soft?

[fh_extras]

The shadow moved closer to the wall, wrapping itself around Billy's ankles. The whispering got more intense as the shadow was getting ready to feed again.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Not again!

"Aaaahh!!" Billy screamed, trying to jump away from the thing.

[fh_extras]

The shadow moved quickly to wrap around Billy's torso. It enveloped Billy in cold while it sucked away the energy from him.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Shit!" Billy shouted, slapping futily at the shadow. What the hell was wrong with him?!

[fh_extras]

Hitting did no good. In fact, it made the shadow cling tighter around Billy, trying to feed as much as it could.