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69 [Accidental Video] Forwarded to early morning.

[The PCD turns on by landing on the soft wet ground with a 'thunk'. All you see is grey skies and the distant sunrise -- and a pair of hands picking up the device with a soft huff of annoyance.]

The last thing I need is this stupid thing getting broken...

[Oh, hello, Adstringendum. Hino Rei has landed. And she looks unharmed, for the most part, save for a cut on her hand and looking somewhat tired. But what else is new, really? Sleeping isn't exactly easy to do in this place.

She purses her lips as she dusts mud off of the screen, a thumb running over the camera, which shuts it off.]

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The tower.

[Hello still not thinking to change settings, like locking. 8| Besides he doesn't care right now, much more interested in Rei's return.]

Where have you been, if not in your world?

I can tell you all about my mystical adventure when I get there.

[Spoiler: Nothing happened. But Castiel doesn't know that and the promise of information will keep him in one spot without complaining too much until she gets there.]

Alright.

[And he just buys it, in his current state. 8|]

[... that is not good. Nnng. She keeps the feed open, but moves towards the Tower quickly, sliding inside with no difficulty. She still has no senses -- a silent curse to herself as she locates Castiel the hard way.]

Cas?

[He's drifted toward the front of the front of the tower, though he hasn't made it to the front room by the time Rei arrives. Still, he meets her in the hallway.

It's... Weird, seeing her. He'd really thought she was gone, but there she was. There was little outward reaction from him, but he was greatly relieved on the inside, much like he'd been when he realized Balthazar had been alive.]

Rei.

[Rei frowns to herself, at his appearance, before looking around the Tower, casually glancing around for... well, much of anything, really. She doubted this place had ample access to food and water and while it was well-protected and fiercely guarded, Rei didn't think anyone stayed here full time.

She pauses before stepping forward.]

I'm sorry.

[For what, Rei didn't really know. She didn't really have anything to apologize for. But Toushirou had told her to apologize to the idiots who scoured the city for her and Rei figured she would start with her closest friends.

There's another pause before she narrows her eyes up at him, suspicious.]

Your eyes are bloodshot and you look like you haven't eaten in a week. Why?

[The front rooms of the tower are as unworn as they always are, as he'd been mostly hiding out in one of the back ones, where he'd been after Raphael's arrival and the subsequent fight. He tilts his head slightly at her apology, not quite understanding the point of it, but he nods anyway in acceptance. At her other comments, though, he frowns slightly and flat out ignores the question.]

Where have you been?

[Hrgh. Well, she had told him she would tell him upon arrival. Rei averts her eyes to focus on the wall, trying to get... something out of it. Had anything weird happened? Had she done anything out of the ordinary? No... she had just sat down to think and meditate and then came back before it was going to rain.]

... I went for a walk, just outside the outer wall, on the outskirts of the Wastelands. I just needed to clear my head.

[She chews on her lip for a moment before looking up at him with a frown.]

I've only been gone for three or four hours, at the most, but --

[Rei rifles around in her pocket to take out her PCD, to glance at the date.]

... it's been ten days?

[He listens, and it makes sense to him. It's strange, but he did know that the Wastelands' time sometimes passed differently, even close to the wall.]

It seems you encountered a temporal anomaly.

[Buzzed and sleep deprived or not, he was always ready for nerding.]

Yes. Your PCD appeared offline.

Right. A temporal anomaly.

[Rei did not know what a temporal anomaly was, but Castiel didn't seem concerned, so Rei figures she's at little risk for anything distinctly harmful. She does look unsettled, though.]

Why aren't you at the Temple? You look horrible --

[Probably because she wasn't around to force him to eat, Rei thinks, adding to her guilt. She doubted that Usagi or Haruka would be able to convince Castiel to do much of anything. She purses her lips before tugging the angel into a loose hug, briefly, before scowling at him.]

You need to stop doing dumb things when bad things happen, how are you still alive?

[She brushes past him to go into the Tower fully, towards the back rooms.]

I'm throwing out every liquor bottle I find and we're going home. Idiot.

[Even if either had held sway over him or would've attempted to convince him to eat, he had left the Temple only a day or so after Rei's disappearance. But he doesn't bother answering her question, and then is surprised when she hugs him for a moment, though he doesn't mind. It's nice, especially as he thought he'd never see her again, and he feels oddly... Sentimental? It's not the right feeling, but he isn't sure which is correct.

When she lets go and begins toward the back rooms, he follows along after her, as usual.]

I'm fine, Rei. But you have missed a great deal in your absence.

[He won't argue about his decision making, because he can't win, so he ignores it. Her last comment, though, he takes issue with.]

They're not all empty.

[Look at all the fucks she gives, Cas, because she is definitely prying open the first bottle she finds and dumping the contents of it out of the nearest window before tossing the empty bottle over her shoulder towards a lone corner.]

Empty...

[And she uncorks another bottle to do the same to the next, the jug sliding into place near its neighbor as she tosses it.]

Look, another empty --

[And still another is dumped out the window. Rei is so focused on her task that she doesn't immediately notice the constant beeping of her PCD, which she dropped onto a chair on her way in.]

[Alksjdfjh he wasn't fast enough to save the first three bottles, but he scooped up a few that still had decent amount left in them.]

Rei. Even if you dislike me drinking, with such limited supplies here wasting alcohol is a poor choice. It has uses other than an intoxicating substance, such as an antiseptic, treatment for pain, or a sleep aid.

[He would hit her with logic, because 'I want to drink that later' probably wouldn't go over well.]

[Rei turns to glare at him, eyes landing on the few bottles he had managed to save from her sudden intervention. She takes a step forward, extending a hand, jaw set.]

Fascinating. Hand them over before -- shut up!

[It's a vicious snap to her PCD and Rei turns to snatch it up, back towards Castiel as she scrolls through her screen with a frustrated hiss. It was probably Usagi or Toushirou -- probably Toushirou, Rei thinks in annoyance. He tends to text her whenever she wanders away to go exploring, which was probably only going to get worse due to her --

Her shoulders tense slightly as she continues to scroll through messages. One hundred or so of them, spanning ten days. A few were from Usagi, one or two from Hitsugaya, a couple from her other friends, but the majority --

Rei turns on her heel with a scowl as she holds up her PCD.]

An antiseptic, huh?

Give me those or I'm throwing you out the window next to air dry.

[He turns his attention toward her PCD as well at the almost constant beeps, a bit puzzled, before slowly beginning to remember why she would have so many messages. Oh. Right.]

I said it could be used as one, not that I was doing so.

[He's not handing them over. 8|]

Hunters in my world use it for that purpose often. In this place, it's valuable.

Castiel.

[Patiently.]

Give me the liquor bottles before I call Gabriel and we host an intervention.

If you call Gabriel he'll simply want to drink them himself.

[So there, Rei.]

No. He won't. Because he's not dumb enough to argue with me when I say it's going out the window.

[And, without much more warning, Rei shoots out a hand to dig her fingers right underneath Castiel's ribs, in order to --

Tickle him.

Because there is no faster way for him to drop a ton of liquor bottles in the time she demands them to be released.]

[When she went for his ribs he kind of flinched back on instinct, but he honestly wasn't worried about whatever she was going to do, just confused. And then she started doing... Whatever it was, and he had never been tickled before and was extremely surprised and more than a little baffled. Maybe slightly alarmed too.

He felt strange and he didn't understand why, and it was even more surprising and upsetting when he laughed, completely involuntarily, and that shocked him into dropping the bottles. Thankfully the glass was thick enough and the carpet plush enough that they didn't break, though they did fall right on their feet. He wrapped his arms around his ribs and just stared at Rei in sheer confusion.]

[The moment Castiel dropped the bottles, Rei jerked backwards instinctively, to avoid being hit with the bottles. She flashes a bright grin before stooping to pick them up, moving to the window, to empty the contents out just as she had done the previous three bottles. She turns on her heel to look around for any others, but they seem to be empty, much to her dissatisfaction.]

Now -- I think that's all of them.

[She tosses Castiel a bright grin.]

Let's get out of here.

[What had just happened?]

What did you do?

[He wasn't leaving yet until he knew what sort of freakish human thing she'd used on him. 8| And he was a little miffed at her about getting rid of all his alcohol, too.]

[Be miffed all you want, princess, she isn't apologizing. 8| But she does look confused, at the question -- before Rei starts laughing.]

People tend to be ticklish right around --

[And Rei gently pokes him in the side.]

There. It was a lucky guess.

[He dodges away when she pokes at his side, looking at her suspiciously.]

Ticklish?

It means you start laughing when someone touches you in the right spot.

[She brushes past him with a laugh.]

I was counting on you not knowing and dropping them. Good to know that I was right!

[SILENCE. For about twenty seconds, then incredulity.]

Why would humans have such a thing?

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