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002 | Video ☇ Day 16 | Midday

[The camera jiggles as Bonten struggles to grasp it. Why yes, this is another one of those fun I've-Been-Possessed-And-Now-This-Goast-Is-Going-To-Pee-On-Everything-I-Love posts that have been cropping up lately.

Bonten, as you may or may not know, does not really sleep so much as he goes and goes and goes until his brain overheats and he passes out in a deep sleep while his body reboots. Needless to say, the stress of everything ever had finally caught up to Bonten, leaving him unconscious on a roof somewhere (as if he'd sleep in the room he shared with Izaya) and allowing a spirit to take control of his body without really any fuss.

The catch, however, being that Bonten was so deeply asleep that when the ghost took over it couldn't maintain Bonten's completely human form, reverting instead back to the body of a bird spirit, complete with giant bird-feet hands. Which would have been great had the ghost been attempting to scratch up worms instead of hold a device intended for human fingers.]

Huuuuu I picked a weird one. [Bonten moves a clawed hand to brush hair behind his his ear, talons catching in the chain connecting his lip to his ear. It gets tangled, and the talons on the ends of his fingers make grasping things difficult. The ghost quickly grows frustrated, simply yanking his hand free, ripping the ring out of his face without so much as a grimace. (So long as the body was ambulatory, the spirit didn't care what state what its face was in.)]

It is so funny how you creatures are so incredibly desperate to protect unimportant things. [Blood oozes down his chin, lipring dangling from the chain attached to his ear, a small bit of flesh still speared on the bar.] Like plants.

In the forest, there's a tree that's very special to that snake! If the tree gets hurt, if that happens-- [The ghost laughs.] I guess I have time to make some mulch on my way off this piece of shit island. Ciao. [It lilts its goodbye and turns off the device, using Bonten's legs to leap off the edge of the building and head off toward the shrine.]

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Your host will be less than appreciative of that.

It's cute that you're playing commentator.

I do try my best.

You fleshy creatures are so funny.

The very same could be said for you.

It's pitiful that your amusement will be so short-lived.

Hiwa...?

[Well that's not right. Not right at all. He has to stare, first of all. ]

[And then the ghost rips out that lip ring, and he can't help but flinch. No, that's not his little bird. Not at all.

And the things he's saying are so suspicious, they make his chest tighten.]

What are you--

[Aww fuck naw you are not threatening his treebb. OR his birdbb for that matter. Neither of these things is remotely OK, and he'd love nothing but to destroy that spirit right now.]

Leave my children be.

[Oh ahahahaha LOOK it's that fat snake that his host loves so much. A L A S you are much to strong for the ghost to harm directly, so it's going to have to settle for tearing up your children.]

He resents you, you know. [A lie.] He thinks you're a sell-out.

[Those words hurt. Even though he's sure they aren't true, the very thought of Hiwa feeling that way is painful.]

Don't waste my time with lies. Leave him.

After all the effort I went through to find an appropriately unconscious body? He was practically begging for it. [Blood has traced all the way down his neck and begun to soak the collar of his shirt. Not that Byakuroku can see that much over the small screen, but the ghost things it's funny, judging by the hoarse, gasping laughs that are wheezing out of Bonten's mouth.] Did you know, it's become a human tradition for lovers to carve their initials into tree trunks?

If Tsuyukusa is harmed, I won't be forgiving. For that matter, I won't forgive your actions towards Hiwa. If you are incorporeal, I do suggest making yourself so again. If nothing else, you can be confined.

It's quaint how you think I care.

Not so much as how you seem to think I can't smell you.

[Not that that much matters. He's going to find Tsuyukusa first. The tree itself, that is, and he's going to coil around it and wait. He'd turn fully snake for speed, but he can't use the device and slither around at the same time.]

You think I'm hiding from you? [It chokes out a laugh] I've made my intentions clear from the beginning. You should have started slithering the moment you realized what was going on.

If you aren't hiding, then stand and wait.

[Okay, sure. He's leaving his device behind right now, because if he goes snake he's pretty sure he can find Bonten before Bonten gets to Tsuyukusa.]

[The ghost tries to whistle, only to be irritated when it can't make a sound over its body's ruined lip. Well whatever! It was close, so close. The tree would just get torn up a bit (for a tengu it shouldn't be too difficult to rough up a PLANT right) and then it would continue on in Bonten's body and get the hell off the island.

Tsuyukusa's real body was easy for the ghost to locate (at least the body it'd chosen was good for something, even if it couldn't whistle). It didn't have a very fine control on Bonten's senses, though, and while it was sure that a giant snake would be popping up any old minute, it stopped to sink Bonten's claws into the trunk of the special tree, delighting in the sensation of piercing the bark and pressing its talons deep into the living flesh of the thing. It was exhilarating.]

[He can almost feel it, when that happens. It's parental senses, maybe, or those simply of a beast spirit's connection to his chosen tree, but he knows Tsuyukusa is being hurt, so he's all serpentine rage by the time he slithers around behind the shrine to confront this foul intruder in his family's affairs.]

Get away from him.

[Well shit. It'd wanted to be gone before the snake made it there, but it was confident that the fat worm wouldn't hurt it. It was in his child's body, after all.

So. It wrapped its body around the tree and dug Bonten's talons into the bark.]

No.

[The hissing sound coming from him is nothing but aggressive. He has no desire to chose between his children -- but he won't lose both in the name of being indecisive. So he'll lunge, with every intention of using his teeth to separate them. He'll try not to injure Hiwa too badly, but he'll also do what he must. He's lived too long not to know when to be harsh.]

[Well that was unexpected. The ghost hadn't expected the snake to come at him like that. It jerked, trying to free the claws from the tree. The ghost struggled, a strangled noise caught in Bonten's throat, angry and scared. It had to go.]

[No no no. He has no intention of letting Bonten's body go anywhere. Instead, he'll try to pry it away from the tree and get a good grip on it. Preferably, that grip will be with his tail rather than his mouth, but what must happen will happen.]

[The ghost howls, screeching awkwardly as the cold serpentine mouth closes around him, dark and horrible and exactly what it was trying to escape.]

[Poor thing. He kind of feels bad for the ghost, but that's far below in priority to the safety of his children. He'll spit the ghost out -- the taste is maybe too pleasant, being a bird and all -- but the moment he does, he's slamming his tail down on it. Consider yourself sat on, ghostie.]

If you do not leave him, I will find a way to force you, and it will not be pleasant.

[Midna is disdainful and for once not amused.]

You're pitiful.

And you're a disgusting, fleshy sack. [Not that it can see, of course, but only bodies have communicators, so.]

[Midna laughs, but it's not a pleasant laugh. More so than usual.]

Goes to show that you're ignorant and pitiful. Really, there is a reason things like you don't have a body.

Oh? You have time to lecture me on my own kind but can't seem to manage getting off this island. [It wheezes a laugh, burbling unpleasantly.] You don't seem to grasp your own situation.

[Lying, lying, lying through those pointy teeth of hers.]

Again, who says I want to get out?

That would only serve to compound your ignorance. [It laughs again and licks Bonten's lips, tongue leaving a red smear.]

And you expect me to believe a pitiful bodiless little thing like you actually knows something of value? Don't make me laugh.

Why do you think we're so eager to leave?

I think I just covered that with pitiful bodiless little thing.

[Midna giggles.]

I know it's hard, but do try to keep up!

[Shock. That was really weird]

They must not be unimportant.

And what would a broken bag of flesh like you know?

You said they were special to him.

He clearly has a skewed perception of reality.

Your message is confusing.

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