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[revolutionfalcon]

Who: Shun and Ren
When: Around January 22nd-23rd
Where: Mostly the Near Shore, probably
What: Shun just lost his exemplar and longest-standing shinki. He handles this about as well as he generally handles losing people close to him, but hey, at least he's inviting his boyfriend on his ayakashi-murdering rage bender this time.

[It's been eight months since Shun lost a shinki. He knows, because the day he lost Joker was the day he named Fubuki, off the back of both of them having lost their partner at the same time. He'd been meaning to do better since then, tried to do what he could to make his intentions clear...but if anything, he'd done even worse with Fubuki than he had with Joker, to the point he's surprised Fubuki didn't just ask for his name to be revoked by the end. And the less said about the mess he'd made with Reisi in the interim, the better.

Even having Fubuki ask for his name revoked would be better than this, though. The day starts with Shun waking up to an abrupt feeling of loss, one of four ties severed. It very nearly continues the same way it did when Yuto disappeared, in blindly throwing himself into work and refusing to allow any help that isn't absolutely necessary, but as he scrolls through the contact list to make certain of which of his shinki it is that's vanished - it's definitely Fubuki, the name is as gone as the feeling of their connection - he comes back up to a particular name. One who had gotten particularly upset about his disastrous reaction to Yuto's disappearance.

After a good minute of staring at the phone, Shun lets out a bracing sigh and taps the screen to call Ren, almost reluctantly bringing the speaker up to his ear. He'll just have to hope he actually answers it this early in the morning...]

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[shadowrevenger]

[Ren isn't actually awake this early in the morning, and he would usually try to ignore the ringing that woke him up and go back to sleep--but it's Shun's ringtone. Shun is one of the two people who he wouldn't ignore anyway (along with Eric), but especially this early, it's probably because something is wrong. Shun wouldn't call just to tell him about some nice dream he had or a kitten he passed on the street.

Ren pushes himself up so he won't be mumbling into his pillow and snatches his phone off the nightstand, doing his best not to sound too much like he just woke up when he answers it.]

Morning~ You're not bleeding, are you?