The Drow Queen of Glaley [Very NSFW]

[Shiori]

"I wasn't aware it was a Toukami thing? Just, using his name seems like making him too much of a person."

[Jassinth]

Ah, almost an inverse or mirror of using someone's Mazed Name. "I see. Well, regardless of your reasoning for that naming scheme, there's also, well, the matter of last night," he points out delicately.

[Shiori]

Now Shiori looks away. "I was... surprised. That's all."

[Jassinth]

"So was I," Jass points out gently, "but..." He gestures at Shiror, then the bed. Only one of us went catatonic for twelve hours.

[Shiori]

"After everything that's been going on, I. needed the sleep."

[Jassinth]

"Shiori." The word isn't spoken as a rebuke, but rather a plea. Talk to me. Be honest with me. Trust me.

[Shiori]

"I'm fine now."

[Jassinth]

"Really," Jass replies, voice dripping with doubt. "Just... You're fine now, overnight."

[Shiori]

"I was really tired. Now I've rested."

[Jassinth]

"Shiori... do you remember what happened after you opened the door?" Jass asks suddenly.

[Shiori]

"I..... do," she says, uncertain and unsettled. "I saw... that...thing... and then..." Her color is slowly paling as she struggles to remember, and he can visibly see when she gives up: she shakes her head and flushes slightly. "What does it matter?"

[Jassinth]

"What does..." Jass takes a breath, then slowly exhales as he gathers his thoughts. "Shiori, you walked in on your sister contemplating suicide, screamed for a solid minute, then passed out for more than twelve hours."

[Shiori]

Shiori bends double, one hand over her mouth, but she manages to swallow back whatever bile was rising in her throat. She clutches with the other hand at her stomach, head dropping, hair falling in a curtain to hide her face. 

[Jassinth]

Swearing sulfurously-- in his head, thankfully-- Jass reaches out to her but stops with his hands a scant inch from her shoulders. "I-- fuck, Shiori, I'm sorry, I should have been-- been more careful with-- fuck." 

Mostly in his head.

[Shiori]

Shiori shakes her head, rocking back and forth a moment as she tries to find her center again. "I'm sorry," she whispers. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry."