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"Normally, yes..." Razz mumbled, running a hand through his disheveled blonde hair. "I have a disease called insomnia. It sometimes prevents me from getting to sleep. And it ruins my whole day. I've tried medication to beat it down, but nothing's worked..."
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"What importance is this sleep anyway?" Iri asked as she threw her arms into the air. She may have been an old demon but she was definitly oblivious when it came to the ways of humans. "I do not have to sleep," she then added. "I can but that does not mean that I have to." She shook her head casting her dark hair from side to side causing it to fall over her shoulders rather than down her back.
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"Well...uh..."
Something occurred to Razz, then. Maybe Iri didn't have to sleep? "Humans, we...we need to sleep. If we don't sleep, then our bodies don't get a chance to rest. Without sleep, our movements are impaired...our brain function is impaired. We can't focus, or concentrate. If a human were to stay completely awake for more than nearly three days...there's a good chance they would die..." |
Iri's lips pursed slightly as her brows furrowed together. "Well that doesn't make much sense," she then said. "You beings are far too complicated than the trouble you are worth in understanding." She then leaned her head against the wall behind her before lowering her legs, crossing one over the other. "What does this insomia do? I understand that it provents you from getting to sleep but how? Why?"
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"I don't know how..." Razz admitted, flopping back down onto his bed. "All I know right now is that I need to sleep, and it's preventing me from doing so..." He looked miserable.
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Iri was honestly at a loss for words, this human was very odd. He did not find her presence odd at all nor did he seem all that intereseted in selling her for 'big bucks' like others that had entered her saloon had wanted to do. Rather than saying anything she just vanished, almost as if she hadn't been there in the first place. The only clue that she had been there was the returning of the bat shaped stone sitting on his dresser. She had to think about all this and she wasn't going to get that with adding more to her plate.
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Razz simply curled up in bed, trying his hardest to relax and fall asleep. He didn't move for a long while. Finally, after quite a long time, his patience was rewarded, and slowly, he fell asleep. He was a deep sleeper, so hopefully, nothing would wake him up.
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Iri sighed, the sound of it echoing within the stone. "Humans are such boring creatrues," she said to herself as she closed her eyes. "The cease to do anything for hours at a time, it seems rather waisful." She wasn't about to leave her stone again though, she had seen the room already and there had really been nothing there of interest. Wait, there is more to this place, she then thought and the stone disappeared once again.
Rather than reappearing, Iri stood outside of the boy's room. She had been right when she remembered him entering his home in the first place. "Hmm, now this is interesting," she hummed to herself as she began wandering down hallways and opening random doors, her tail swaying slightly as she moved. |
Razz stayed asleep, curled up tightly in his bed. Even though he had finally fallen asleep, his efforts wouldn't be of much use once school time rolled around. He would most likely not have a very good day...he only had about five hours to sleep.
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"Oooh, now what are you," Iri asked to herself as she walked up to a furry little creature with pointed ears. A smile came to her face as she made eye contact with it. "Why you're a little kitty, how adorable," she said, a smile on her lips as she pet the little creature. It seemed happy enough, that is until a second one found the demon's tail. The sharp pain of claws and teeth cause her to jump and whip around, eyes wide as she looked at the fluff ball that sat on the floor. She glared at the creature and no sooner than that did the other cat attack her tail. She yelped slightly that time and stepped back glarring at both of them. "Will you two stop it?" She said louder than she had actually meant.
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Razz, deeply asleep, didn't hear the noise. He hoped she realized, however, that there were other humans in the house. His parents were a few rooms down from him. His mother was a deep sleeper, and his father was a light sleeper. He had hoped they wouldn't wake up and possibly see her...he didn't exactly want to explain it to them.
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The cats seemed to ignore the girl as they watched her tail move from side to side. Iri tried to glare at them but they started stalking towards her, that caused her to back up. "Stay back you evil creatures," she threatened them but they didn't stop. Soon enough the back of her legs came in contact with a chair, the cats took this as an opportunity. Jumping at her Iri reacted the only way she thought of, she tried to move back. Falling onto the chair her head hit the lamp beside it and that fell over hitting shelves and causing a chain reaction, a rather noisy chain reaction. The sound of it scared her half to death to say in the least and she covered her ears, the cats had sense scattered and soon a purple light disolved and the bat shaped opal stone sat on the chair she had fallen onto.
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Razz woke up at once; thankfully, before his parents. He practically raced them downstairs, since they didn't take well to being woken up during the night in contrast to him.
As he suspected, after a quick glance around the room, he saw the stone in there, sitting on one of the chairs. Quickly, he scooped it up and shoved it into his pockets, just as his father came down into the room, suspecting a burglar. His mother had stayed upstairs. Razz's father was tall and intimidating, with short dark hair and a muscular build. He grumbled, relieved, when he saw there wasn't a burglar. Razz sighed wearily, rubbing at his eyes. "The cats knocked stuff over again, I bet..." he mumbled, looking around for them. Fox and Weasel were his cats. They were naughty, and they often knocked things over. After a short talk with his father, the two sleepily headed back upstairs to their respective rooms. Razz set the stone down on his dresser again and collapsed into bed, groaning wearily. No, school would not be pleasant...not at all... |
Pockets, that was another thing that Iri was going to add to her list of things not to like. That one was going right next to cats. "You keep such vile creatures at your house," she said as the her form replaced that of the stone. She was laying on her belly on the dresser facing Razz. "They looked so cute too," she added as she stared past the boy's bed and out the door. Her legs were bent and crossed at the ankles, her tail swaying slightly seeing as she didn't see the cats anywhere.
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Razz grunted from his bed, his voice slightly muffled by his pillow. "Fox and Weasel aren't evil...they're just playful. And naughty. They've broken more things around the house than myself, my mother, and my father combined...and we've only had them for four years."
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Iri wrapped her tail around the side of her body so she could run her hands along it. "Well one of them caught my tail," she said as she pulled her hand back seeing a bit of her own dark blood on her skin. "They are very destructive creatures." She then looked back at the boy when he mentioned something about school. "So am I to assume that you would leave the stone here? Well that would be such a bore," she then stuck her tongue out, making a face slightly. A thought then occured to her, he was treating her like she had seen people treat one another on the street. "Why is it that you do not fear me like anyone else would?"
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"Do you want some gauze for that? To stop the bleeding?" Razz asked wearily, able to see her with only one eye because he was still collapsed on his bed. "There's some across the hall...in the bathroom..." He yawned a bit. "I can take it with me...but I would have to keep it in my pocket unless I found some way to wear it, as a necklace or a key chain or something.
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"Bleeding, but I am not," Iri said as she drug her hand down her tail again before pulling it away; it had already healed. "I am no mortal, I do not follow your rules of 'injuries'. And as for the pocket I would prefer not, it is about as appauling as those felines you own." She then held a hand out, her palm up and it started glowing purple in the middle. Once it faded an opal ring sat there, looking at it she said, "Perhaps this would be easier to carry around?"
She then rolled onto her back, allowing her head to hang over the edge, her hair cascading downwards. "Well perhaps your morning reaction would be more to my delight then. So until I get to see this reaction I shall bid you adea Rasputin." With that said she then vanished, but this time into the ring that gained purple looking veins that pulsated the strange light. |
Razz was relieved. The ring would be much easier to deal with. He assumed that Iri had no idea how human schooling worked, and that it would be a very insightful trip for her. Giving up on his thoughts for the night, Razz curled up. Surprisingly, he drifted back into sleep with ease this time around.
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The ring seemed to pulse rather brightly, it was intuned to who she was because in essence it was her. She was looking forward to how all of this worked. She personally did not care for humans, they were unintelligent creatures that were prone to stupidity and emotion than any other creature she could think of. The boy fell asleep again, that must mean there was time until school would actually start. This depressed Iri slightly considering she wasn't really wanting to sit in the object all day.
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Razz slept peacefully. It had been a while since he slept peacefully.
Morning came more quickly than he would have liked. His alarm clock rang at exactly five in the morning, and he groaned at it, trying to swat at the correct button and turn it off. He hated that clock. It signaled another awful day at school. |
A sudden noise called the ring to pulse brighter for a moment, it startled Iri. He was up though, Razz was awake and now the girl was extremely excited. The ring was engulfed in the purple light and the girl appeard sitting on his dresser, legs crossed. "So I am to assume that you are getting ready to head out, am I correct?" She asked trying to sound more bored than she actually was at that moment.
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Razz yawned, sitting up and rubbing his eyes. "Yeah...I've got to take a shower, change clothes, and head out...I don't eat breakfast in the morning, usually."
He swung his legs over the side of the bed, heading over towards the dresser. "I'll pick out an outfit...my clothes are in there." |
Breakfast, the word repeated itself over and over ahead in Iri's mind as her tongue clicked on the roof of her mouth. When Razz moved she followed his movements with her eyes until she noticed he was getting into what she was sitting on. That didn't surprise her though, such objects were at the saloon. Rather than making him work around her she disappeared and reappeared on his bed. "How is it that you still don't seemed to surprised by my being here?" She asked remembering what he had said before going to bed about this same topic.
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"Um..." Razz dug around in his dresser, pulling out an old black t-shirt with a skull on it and old, cozy jeans. "No idea...I'm still dead tired, so that might be it. That sleep did not help..." He set his clothing, along with proper underclothes, on the dresser and ambled off towards the shower. "I'll be back in...ten minutes or so."
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