Persona - Mask of Origins

He yawned, "Yeah? Where is she? Ugh, my head hurts."

 

"Aspirin is in the medicine cabinet." Yuki said as she walked downstairs.

 

Zain popped a few into his mouth and drank from the tap. He looked in the mirror and forced himself not to scream. Lifting his hair from his forehead, he noticed several bruises in a bar shaped form. His eyes were bloodshot and more brightly streaked red than before. "If you're asssking if you should be concerned. Then yessss, you should be." Orphan slithered around his legs and up to his shoulders. "Orphan, I'd never ask you this, but...what did I do last night?" Orphan hesitantly told him about last night and he sank to his knees, a depression settling over him.

 

Yuki flipped through the channels after turning on the tv and sighed.

 

Zain shook his head and set Orphan down on the ground, "I need a shower. I feel like crazy is on me. Is it on me?" Orphan didn't understand the joke and shook his head, "You look fine to me."

 

Yuki stretched as she watched tv. She settled on an anime.

 

Zain gave Orphan a barbed look and showered. He still didn't feel clean after being around Lady Shiv so much again, but he normally didn't feel clean after being around her. Coming down the stairs he fiddled with his guitar. Tuning it and started on breakfast. He was in the mood for pancakes and Liz's and his favorite were chocolate chip.

 

Yuki sang softly and smiled.

 

As he waited for the pancakes to brown he softly played on his guitar. Trying to match that sad song he'd heard in his dreams (when he was a monster). He couldn't mimick it and it frustrated him.

 

Yuki played the song on the piano.

 

Sakuya listened to them and smiled.

 

Zain jerked and tuned his guitar again and mimicked the song, "Yuki...how do you know that song? It...was in my dreams. I...it's comforting." Strumming his guitar, he nearly forgot about the pancakes. Pausing, he flipped them and continued the song.

 

"This is comforting to you? It's a song I heard in my dreams when I was a kid."

 

"Yeah, it's soothing. Like, I don't have to care about anything if I just listen to the song. Nothing...matters..." his eyes closed and his fingers started to elaborate on the song, adding in things and he smiled, "Sounds like something...Mom would've wrote." He didn't know why he thought of his mother, but her image came clearly to his mind.

 

"Maybe if you think of this song, you won't be as feral at night."

 

"Maybe. It certainly would do me better if I could remember when I turned feral." He stopped playing and served the pancakes, "Breakfast's ready. I'm sure there's something I can do to help myself, instead of just being locked up in a cage every night, which by-the-way is very frightening."

 

"I hope there's a way to reverse this. I don't want you to become a shadow."

 

Setting their plates on the table he gently touched Yuki's cheek lightly, "Don't worry, Yuki, I'm not going to let that happen. Plus, I still remember you and Toya's promise." He tapped his head, "Always in my mind no matter if I am feral."

 

Yuki nodded and started eating.

 

Zain set a plate for Sakuya and ate his food in silence.