January 10th, ???

Leroy Hall/Ethan Brimstone/Axel Founte

16/B-/O/A/Male/Trans male/Water/Aura Sensing/Quicker Healing/Both/Pansexual/Gay/Asexual Panromantic

"Since I'm the one choosing then... Sudoku is basically the best thing ever. It can fix everything, in my opinion. After all, if someone can solve Sudoku, then they can come up with solutions to other things too."

Leroy couldn't help but smile at Nabih's happy expression and he shifted closer to peer at the puzzle. "Sudoku it it, maybe we can solve our life problems in the middle of it. A sudden realization that eveything is actually simple and we've just been dumbasses the whole time." His tone was amused and slightly sarcastic. He didn't really understand Nabih's sudoku logic, it was just a puzzle, after all, all numbers and patterns, simple enough to figure out. Life was much more complicated.

He wasn't going to point this out, of course. It was a nice idea, and Leroy had no intention of arguing with Nabih, especially right now. Besides, maybe there was some logic to his statement... Even if Leroy couldn't identify it.

Returning his attention to the puzzle (and also vainly trying to ignore the fact that his face was very close to Nabih's cheek as he looked over the other boy's shoulder), he started to silently start calculation possible solutions to the Sudoku. Who knew, maybe it really would end up helping.

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"Yeah, I know he'll be fine. I just--- I--- I zoned out again and didn't realize what was happening for a moment."

Ethan nodded slightly in acknowledgement, still a bit worried but willing to let it go for now. Especially when he was distracted by the fact that TJ had walked out of the hall and seemed to be weaving through the apartment, ducking in and out of each room. E furrowed his brow slightly in confusion befor shruggin a little and looking back to Cal when he spoke.

"Oh, but Fateflawed is so so nice! Very fluffy and sweet! Fateflawed is so soft and fluffy and--- and *rât dê thu'o'ng*!"

Ethan couldn't help but smike at the excitment in Cal's voice, and he snickered when his friend lowered his voice to speak only to the bird.

"Honestly, I've got no idea what you just said, but, yep! I totally agree. *Rat del thueoungi*!" The mute pause and raised an eyebrow at Cal. "Did I spell that right?"

He was 99% sure he definitely did not spell that remotly right, but hey, he tried!

He glanced back at Axel and Ariens for a second, but at this point he was pretty confident that his friend knew what he was doing and he trusted him to take good hair of Aries. Besides, teasing Cal was fun.

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Axel watched Aries with a soft expression as he finally seemed to cooperate and he quickly wrapped his arm around Aries waist when he stood, trying to help at least a little (though, considering his size and strength level, he wasn't doing much at all for the much larger male.).

"G-good job! Come o-on, the room's just o-over here! Then you c-can sleep. I'll get you s-some ice too, if there i-is any. Do you want i-ice? It might help w-with any swelling. Though y-you have to make s-sure you don't put it d-directly on the wounds without a t-towel, alright, otherwise it'll be too cold a-and it could do more harm than g-good."

The sickly boy paused, realizing how much he was talking. "O-oh, sorry, you probably d-don't need me to tell you t-that, huh. I-I didn't mean to talk your e-ears off." He smiled sheepishly at Aries. "I-I'll stop now so y-you can rest."