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[spelleton]

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"Greetings, you've reached Ekkehardt Gehring. If you're listening to this, I'm probably busy. Try again later, or leave a message."

EKKEHARDT GEHRING
UN: HEMLOCK

STATUS: Graduate/TA. School nurse assistant.

ACCOLADES: I graduated from this academy 22 years ago. I've been rather boring otherwise.

BIO: I'm here to help treat whatever injuries you children can't just bounce back from. Try not to get into trouble.

© TESSISAMESS

Comments

[spelleton]

[ Well

That seems like a yes to him.

He'd rather not Toki scream himself unconscious, but trying to shock him into stopping would probably be worse. Coaxing him to do so would probably send him into panicking about something else. So, instead, he steps into his room again and comes out with something.

He picks up the phone, checking it over (no damage, fortunately), and then in a businesslike manner shoves something into Toki's hands for him to hold because please just tune into reality a little bit.

If Toki stops screaming for five seconds he'll find he's holding a stuffed toy cat. What someone like Ekkehardt is doing with a toy cat is a mystery, but it's there now. ]

[yokeye]

[When Ekkehardt approaches, Toki tries to back up further, not seeing him, but something else. There's nowhere to go. He screams louder for a moment before he's given the cat. It's suddenly just there, and soft, and doesn't fit with what he's seeing. It distracts him enough that the hallway's returning. He's stopped screaming, and clutches the cat like if he lets go he'll die. He's crying now and realizing this is the fourth or fifth time he's done this and it's not going to stop. Yuya was right. He needs help. But so does Orihime. He can't look at Ekkehardt, so he focuses on the cat.]

You have to h-elp her, please!

[He doesn't know if Ekkehardt can help at all, but someone should be able to figure out where Orihime is and what's happening, before it's too late.]

[spelleton]

[ It's doing its job, at least, which is about as much as he can ask for.

It's been squeezed, sat on, tossed about, hugged entirely too tightly and otherwise battered around in the manner of a small child's favourite toy, so it's well suited for being held onto and cried on. ]

I will.

Miss Orihime will be safe. I promise.

[ He doesn't say 'stay here' because Toki's in no state to move anyway, and he doubts he'd go chasing after her. So he'll leave him be (and give him his phone back) and move onto the more urgent matter, which is finding out where she went. ]

[yokeye]

[He has no intention of leaving the hallway until Ekkehardt comes back and he knows Orihime's okay. If she gets hurt, or dies trying to protect him from... something, he won't be able to handle it. He can't be responsible for that. For now, he'll continue to cry and hang onto the stuffed cat until his fingers go numb, and try not to scream.]