4th floor common room: Thursday afternoon

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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?"

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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.

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

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

[nadiathesaint]

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

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"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."

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

"Anything good on the TV?"

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

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"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?"

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

"Cooking show could be good though."

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

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

[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."

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

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

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

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

[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."

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Pulling the bag of kernals out of the cupboard, Neil dusted it off and closed the door then headed along behind the couch.

"School, class, homework, work, later, rinse, repeat. You?"

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"Same here." Blair said, his answer short.

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"Maybe you're just tired. Overworked yourself trying to figure something out." Blair said with a shrug. "It doesn't always have to be something malevolent."

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Blair's shortness caused Neil to pause. Granted, he didn't know Blair overly well but he did know him in class and usually...well...to be kind the problem was usually in getting Blair to pause in his conversation to take a breath.

"Err...cool. Um, so everything okay?" He didn't want to be too intrusive but couldn't help asking.

[nadiathesaint]

"Apparently? I fell asleep practically mid-sentence when Marty and I were going to look for Bel. That timing seems a little too suspicious, to me. Besides," Nadia looked down at her hands for a moment, fidgeting. "If we can figure out the dreams and stuff, maybe I'll dream a way to help Bel and stop the thing that possessed him."

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"Yeah?" Blair paused for a moment and then gave Neil a sad glance. "I'm just worried about my friend."

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"Did Marty go off without you?" Blair asked. "So you want to help. You're not just looking to kill?"

[nadiathesaint]

"I'm really hoping not. He seemed okay when I saw him yesterday, so if he did, he must not have found anything." She gave Blair a long look. "And yeah, I want to help Bel. But, I know you don't want to hear this, I'm willing to kill, if I have to." She held up a hand to forestall any interruption. "There's a lot of room for figuring out other options before we reach 'have to'. But this thing really hurt Dr. Wilson and Cally. We're lucky it didn't kill them. It needs to be stopped."