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From: Asteria
Date: October 24th

(The scene is rather comical. Ciel is frozen before a rather fluffy grey cat. What can there be to fear from such an adorable creature?

And then there is a wheeze. It is a dangerous sound, foretelling the closure of vital airways.)

I can't - (The young Earl coughs into his hand, backing away from the cat with quick, unsteady steps. As a result, he ends up tripping over a box of books and landing hard on his wooden floor.) Ah - !

(He rolls onto his side, trying to speak again.) Asthma - Cats -

Get away! (Because the small beast is in hot pursuit, interested in the boy's antics. Why is this human acting so strangely? Does he have food?)

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Dude? Are you okay?

[Wait, no. Even Lann knows that question is dumb.]

Where are you?

Con...Conservatory! (Each word is tight and breathless.) How did the cat -

(Nope, not finishing that sentence. Too busy hacking up a lung.)

[That thing looks like a normal cat, but it's probably an ayakashi in disguise or something.]

On my way.

[He doesn't bother saying anything else, just hangs up and runs for the conservatory. He still doesn't know what a conservatory is, but he knows which room Ciel calls the conservatory. So... close enough.

A few minutes later he bursts through the door. Probably scaring the honk out of that poor cat.]

Where is it?

(Hell if he knows! All cats are demonic and he feels reassured of that fact when he recalls how much Sebastian adored them.)

... (Ciel hasn't managed to get to his feet and his wheezing is worse. The cat does indeed jump at the suddenly intrusion and it hisses sharply, revealing its teeth.)

Th- (The small Earl points shakily, but there really is no need since the cat seems to refuse leaving his side. Maybe this isn't a normal feline.)

Hey! Back off!

[It's a little smaller than he'd expected. And none of the weird colors or strange features that usually mark an ayakashi. But it's clearly using some weird poison power on Ciel, so... it has to be an ayakashi.

Which means there's only one thing to do.]

Line!

[He's obviously been working on his aim, because the line springs up in the narrow space between his god and the deadly ayakashi(?) and doesn't slice through either of them.

Progress!

It is a few feet too long on each side and cleanly slices a lovely vase and table holding said vase in half.

Oops.]

(Poison power. Right. It can't just be that Ciel was born with awful lungs.)

L-Lann. (He tries to sound authoritative, worried despite his tough facade.) Careful!

(The line shaves a few years off of his life when it first appears - he remembers Lann's track record - but when he opens his eye again, it's...in the right place. Leaning his head back on the floor, he tries to even his breathing, his chest rising and falling awkwardly.)

Scare it...outside.

(Their foe (?) growls and edges away from the line, eyes glowing ominously.)

Scare it?

[Only scare it? He's a little confused about why they'd let a dangerous ayakashi in disguise escape, but... Ciel's the boss.]

Uh, you got it.

[The markings on his arm light up to form the increasingly familiar silver gauntlet that means he's about to summon one of his adorable pets.

In this case, the behemoth. Which will certainly scare the kitty.]

Fang! Chase that thing out of here.

[Chasing cats seems like delightful fun. It very happily complies. What follows probably brings to mind a proverb about bulls in china shops.

Hopefully the conservatory didn't have too many breakable objects in it.]

(He just wants it out so he can get a break from its smell. Glowering, he coughs hard enough to jerk his slender body painfully. Somehow, he pushes himself onto his knees, pulling out his pistol.

Just in case.

But Lann has it well in hand. Sort of. Ciel grimaces as his furniture is broken and glass shattered. But, on the up side, the cat is only to happy to escape out of one of said broken windows, leaping to safety with a yowl.

In the wake of the creature, Ciel collapses into one of the only unbroken chairs, bringing a shaking hand to his face.)

[Once their mighty foe disappears through the broken window, Lann lets the borderline drop with a relieved sigh.

Then he runs over the chair Ciel has collapsed in.]

Dude, are you okay? Are you hurt?

(His back aches from falling and his lungs are spasming, but other than that! Ciel lets his hand drop and he focuses on Lann.)

I have...Asthma. It's...a disease.

[Geez that sounds serious. And not something he knows how to handle.]

The ayakashi gave you a disease? Should I get a doctor?

[Actually... can he call a doctor?]

A-are there.. god doctors?

[Fang has given up snuffling near the window for traces of his long gone prey, and trots over to sniff at Ciel curiously.]

No, I've...always...had it. (Seemingly so, anyway, though it didn't turn until he was a young child.) Healers...maybe.

If not... Hot tea...helps.

(He stiffens at the sensation - he has had bad experiences with dogs - but eventually he pets Fang's head absently.)

Always? Wow. That.... sucks.

[Not exactly eloquent, but to the point. Fang tilts his head into the pet affectionately. He did a good job today.]

Tea, huh? Okay, I'll make you some.

[Surprisingly, this is actually something Lann knows how to do. He's better with coffee, but he can make a pretty decent cup of tea as well. He stands up to leave, then pauses.]

You want me to leave Fang here? In case it comes back?

[....What is with cats getting into places these last couple days?]

It's gonna-- keep following if you do that... [They can sense fear probably.]

(They're sneaky demons, obviously.)

Why? (The word is wheezing too. That's not a good sign!)

[Wheezing is definitely not good.]

It's probably even more interested now

...Are you gonna be alright?

(No, it's not and Ciel coughs, trying to force his airways back open.)

I have...no intention...of hurting it. But if I must -

(Damn it all, how can he begin to aim in this state?!)

I have...Asthma. I'm allergic to cats.

[Leo's only a mediocre alchemist but--]

Do you have medicine for your asthma, or do you need someone to make you some?

[A pause.]

I could also attempt to hex it away.

Medicine? (He sounds confused.) What...kind of...medicine? (It's hard to speak and he drags in short, sharp breaths between the words.)

N-No... The medicine sounds...better.

There's a herbal remedy I can brew fairly easily, there's certain things you can smoke to help with asthma I can blend for you--unfortunately I lack most of the herbs from my home but I've found either the same or similar here and yes, have experimented to make sure they do what I think they should.

Or I really could just hex it away, it's not that hard.

What...price? (Everyone wants something, right? And Ciel wouldn't mind trying something if it works.) This is a...nuisance.

(It always has been.)

Hexes sound dangerous.

Only if I don't know what I'm doing, and I learned how to do those sorts of hexes when I was six.

[#prodigy]

But if the medicine works, just the price of the herbs to make it.

I will rely on the herbs, thank you. (He already has a spell of sorts on him - a contract - and he isn't sure how the hex might interact with it.) I will pay you upon receiving the concoction.

Height, weight, and age please.

I am 152 centimeters, 90 pounds and I am fourteen.

[Good gods, man, you're tiny. Maybe he should go for the tea, not the stuff that can be smoked...]

I'll have it over shortly.

(He knows. He knows. 8( He has been waiting on a growth spurt for years. )

Thank you kindly. I will wait for you at the front of the house. (Since his temple is more like a lavish mansion.)

Why do you have a cat if you're allergic?!

It's not mine! It s-snuck... (Hello, wheezy cough.) in!

Oh no! Is it... still around? Can someone at your temple help you?

I have...help. I just need to...breathe. (Which has led to tea and him cooping himself in the kitchen.)

Well I'm glad for that much - if you need calming music, I can find that for you on the internet?

If you have asthma, maybe you should get an inhaler. And there's medicines for people with cat allergies.

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(He can't handle texting right now, so this message is ignored until he is breathing a little better.)

What is that?

It's a tool that lets you breathe in medicine, to get it into the body through the lungs. It's common for asthmatics to use them.

I've never heard of it. (He is currently sipping on hot tea.) It must be a new...invention.

I guess that it might? It's not a super old invention....I think.

Meaning that I am older - chronologically - than it. (Huff.) Could I acquire it here or should I visit the mortal plane?

Eh- really? Huh. The thing you learn. You'd probably have to visit the Near Shore but you could check with the healing type gods first?

I was born in the year 1875. (Just a little early.) Do you know the names of any?

Wow, that is a while ago. [ Actually nearly exactly a hundred years before D2 was born. ] I know Hakkai, he's Li Tieguai. Aja is a spirit of herbal healers, Apollo's a god of healing but I'm not sure about her... And Aceso is a goddess of the healing process.

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