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✧*.◟(ˊᗨˋ)◞.*✧ᗯ੨~ɪ̊♪ْ˖⋆ Found a good club-type space that can be used for meetups that can be reserved!! It's through the Shibuya door and just around the corner from that really nice sushi place - I ran across it after doing my scavenger hunt for the sakura party, hehehe I was thinking of having a sewing day and a cooking day. Maybe sewing Sundays and cooking on Wednesdays? Thursdays? The longer I stay here without a set schedule the more the days blur together and I sleep too long, lol. I bet I'm not the only one, too! I'd also be down for doing other stuff on a schedule with people - anything to keep regular and spend time with everyone!!! ( •̀ᄇ• ́)ﻭ✧

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Possibly unsurprising, but one can actually find Hamuko just about anywhere lately - and lately, she's sleeping a lot.

Passed out on the train going from one station to the next, asleep under the shade of a tree in Inoshikara Park, sometimes even asleep at a restaurant or diner. Sometimes it's at least getting late, but more and more she's even falling asleep in the middle of the day.

That... can't be normal, right? Or maybe the whole 'days blurring together' thing she commented about is what's making her sleep this much?

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She'd only come into Mementos once before, but now that she knew how to get in... well, she was curious to see how far down it went. Kind of funny, given how much of a year of her life was dedicated to climbing up a tower, right?

It's... really huge, though, holy shit. Miles of tracks make her wish she could hop on a train and actually know where in this place it was going, buuuut... that probably wasn't a very smart idea. She'd started exploring it more and more, but when getting to a particular depth, the floor rippled under her feet and down she tumbled.

Thankfully, a sprained ankle and twisted knee wasn't a permanent injury with something like Salvation from her Persona, but Hamuko took that as a sign to take a break. Plus... she was getting tired from the sheer size of the place and how much running around she had done. So finding a few of the seats at a station, she collapsed in one and sighed in some relief, ignoring her stomach growling at first.

...Actually, that gave her a little bit of a funny idea.

Hey, Drake. I'm calling up the curry favor (*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑ Don't know where I fell to in Mementos, but it's awfully purple here. Found one of the station seats, though, shouldn't be too hard to track me down!

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Koromaru is doing a Concern.

He's already shared those concerns with Shinji, who will probably be along in a minute, but for now, having found Hamuko asleep on a couch in the dorm lounge...

Cold, wet nose on knee: go.

"Mmmrrghh!!" Hamuko was pretty deeply asleep for a while, mumbling lightly and incoherently, but the cold nose made her knee twitch and pulled her out of dreaming like she was being yanked out of a lake.

After a couple of seconds she wiggled upright, rubbing her knee - what was that? And rubbed at her eyes. ...Wait a minute.

"Mmmnuh.... Koromaru...?"

Koromaru whines. Why have you been sleeping so much? It's not good.

"Koro..." Hamuko yawned, blinking the sleepiness out of her eyes. Huh. What time is it? Looks like the sun is a lot lower than it was earlier.

Leaning forward, Hamuko started to pet and scritch Koromaru's cheeks and ears, smiling at that fussy little face.

"Was I stealing your napping spot?" she asked, though teasingly - he was probably noticing that she was being strange. "Do I smell sick? Maybe I'm catching something."

"You stole my napping spot." Not that Shinji's really needed it any time recently, but that's beside the point.

"He's worried. We both are."

"I don't feel sick yet, but that doesn't really mean anything... so I should take some vitamin C just in case," Hamuko raised her arms above her head, stretching out her back.

"For a while I thought it was the heat, but I doze off in air conditioned areas too..."

"So either you're sick, or somethin' else weird is going on."

And if it's something else weird, they shouldn't just leave it be.

There's a bit of a long, quiet sigh in her exhale. Hamuko leaned forward again, giving Koromaru doting scratches around his collar area.

"...I'm hoping it's not that I'm... maybe going back to the Seal. But it could be - I have no idea how limited my time here really is."

"You asked Igor?"

Weeeell... "I'm a little scared to, admittedly. I keep putting it off, hoping it's just the heat or maybe a cold."

"As long as you've been out of it? Not just a cold." He'd know, from very painful experience.

"It's worth asking. If it is some kind of limit, then you know. If not, we can figure out what it is."

"Ughh... I'm probably stressing over nothing. I'll just get told by everyone that it's 'cause I keep running around and doing stuff for people, or something!"

Hopefully it's that.

"I usually have kinda muddled dreams when I'm sick. But I've had good dreams..."

Well, she always has had a case of Can't Fucking Sit Down Disease... but.

"You don't usually remember your dreams but you are now? That sounds weird."

"Yeah... I don't mind too much. It's kind of nice, and... feels like I'm seeing everyone again," she admitted, picking and tugging at her shirt where it'd gotten wrinkled from her impromptu nap. "Living in a house with you, Aki, Aigis, and Mitsuru... complaining about trying to get into college... it felt so stressful in such a normal way, for once."

"...huh."

Shinji still doesn't trust it, but he doesn't trust most things, especially happy-sounding things.

"Heheh... and Koromaru, you were there too! You bounced between my house and Ken's house," Hamuko giggled, playfully ruffling Koromaru's cheek fluff some.

"It was nice! I hope everyone is living like that back home, too. I want that for them..."

Koromaru barks. Of course he's going to keep protecting everyone!

"Yeah, well, at the very least I'm probably draggin' things down every now and then." Shinji knows what his health was like before Thorne pulled out Liminal Space's bag of tricks to fix it, and it was Not Good.

"I'd take care of you!! In sickness and in health, right? I got strong arms, I can push your heavy butt in a wheelchair no problem!" she teased. It might've been a sad thought otherwise, but... getting the actual chance to live long enough to do that for him would've... made her really happy.

"I managed to bust outta the hospital looking for you. It's probably not wheelchair bad."

Probably.

"Yeah. It was nice... your heartbeat sounded strong, when I got hugged again," Hamuko sighed a bit, her own heart heavy but... warm. She missed him, so so much, she had so many more things to talk to him about before...

But everyone chatting around her and hugging her close had been everything she wanted. She's so glad they remembered.

"I'm sure Aki can take his turn bullying you about taking care of yourself. Or Mitsuru - you probably would listen to her more than Aki," Hamuko laughed a little.

"Aki bullying me's nothing new, he's been doin' that since we were four. Mitsuru's way more terrifying."

"Sometimes it's fun, but oh, man... actually getting the I'm disappointed in you when you're trying to work when you're sick........."

Shinji snorts. "Like she has any room to talk."

"No way you could say that to her face...!"

"Wouldn't have to. She's the one who nearly gave herself fucking pneumonia trying to go to school sick our first year."

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