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Sasuke gets a warm blanket and also therapy
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"I'm Marian, that was Reiko, this is Chronos and Johann and Eliza. It's okay if you want to tell us your name, too."

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"I'm Sasuke."

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"The twins are Kanimir and Jaromira. Do you want to pick a guest room?"

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He's squinting at her a bit suspiciously, but - 

Getting away from people from a bit sounds at least less unpleasant.

"Sure."

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The guest rooms are down this hall off the living room. They're all currently empty. They have varied contents along a theme of various arrangements and quantities of bedroom-typical objects. 

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He'll retreat into the most defensible and possibly darkest one.

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Okay. 

She leaves him there and goes back to the kitchen. 

"Well, that happened," she says, putting her head in her hands. Johann lays a comforting arm over her shoulder and she leans into him. 

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"Do you think he's going to be okay?"

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"Well...probably everyone will be okay eventually. But it takes longer when you don't understand that you aren't."

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"Oh."

"I don't know how to make him understand that."

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"Neither do I. Inconvenient how little use vast power is when it comes to social situations." 

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"Is there anything I can do to help?"

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"There may be. But don't push him if he wants to be alone, alright?"

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"Okay. Maybe he'll like seeing my dinosaur books."

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"Maybe! Your dinosaur books are mostly in English, though. Do you want to go over them and translate them into Japanese?" 

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"I'll have to look up some words, but I can!"

She gets up and runs off to go find the best dinosaur books and pull up a dictionary.

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"Whoof," she mutters. "--Chronos, can you--without going into any detail on anything privacy-invading--catch me up on the general state of things where Sasuke is from?" 

He does that. 

She says a lot of swear words. 

"Great," she mutters, rubbing her forehead. "I have...no idea what to do about this. But I can try some things." She closes her eyes and feels around for some kind of--crack in reality, or something, that might have been left by Sasuke's passage. Nothing doing. She tries some more things, while keeping half a magical ear on the area in the vague general vicinity of Sasuke's room but still in public enough space not to be spying on him. 

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Then she'll catch the excited child running up to his room some time later. And knocking! Knocking is important manners. Privacy and autonomy in surrendering that privacy is very important.

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