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[jingyeets]

( Jingyi flops back to be sitting on a bed (large! well, double versus the twins of the cabins, so anyone who's in the doubles carriage is already used to this, lucky buds. He gives the ICP a look after sighing, holding up his hands in a stopping gesture. He keeps his voice lower since, well, this talks into cabins and some people are likely asleep, but: )

Okay, so, right. How do people sleep alone? It's so quiet! The big bed's nice, but I'm waking myself up here.

( He doesn't do pleading as his best look, but here, have a twenty-one year old making a Beseeching Expression to the people awake enough to have noticed the ICP up and talking. )

Anyone up for a four night sleepover or something? Elidibuses need not apply.

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[fivemilesdeep]

[Guess who's in the garden car this late? It's Ryo. Sleeping is overrated and he wants to keep his hands busy.]

[So the response is at relatively normal volume, because nobody else is here.]

Do you want someone now?

[He's pretty sure this is desperation rather than future cuddle plans, but he doesn't want to assume.]

[jingyeets]

( he rubs his hands over his face, but not over his horns. )

Ugh, I am, yes, is a bother being tired and restless 'cause all you hear is yourself.

( there are likely many who do not have this issue. night three, and he's done with it personally, and too stubborn not to use the bigger bed to fail to sleep well on. )

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[fivemilesdeep]

Give me a little time to clean up and I'll be right over.

[On the one hand, he's not entirely done; on the other hand, he's also not about to pass up the chance to sleep next to someone. It's been a while.]

[It's about thirty minutes before he shows up at Jingyi's (rented) door, in his pajamas and with two mugs of hot chocolate carefully held in one hand. He knocks with his free hand.]

Jingyi?

[jingyeets]

( Jingyi, perched on the bed, is trying something out actively, which won't be apparent right away: he calls out, as that's polite, but he's also concentrating to see if he can telekinetically slap the door access panel. )

One moment!

( Or two moments, as he's thinking and lifts his hand to flick his fingers at the door.

... Which does open, because even if this skill that had originally been a Diagad thing is not strong like it had been there, small actions are something he can do, and that includes activating the door to open. Though it does mean he's sitting on the bed in lotus position, with one hand held up and fingers splayed like he'd just waved them at the door when it opens. Hair still partly up, in that top knot, and in his inner robes such as they are, with his brows quirking and a sort of: )

It worked.

( Leading to a shake of his head, before he smiles at Ryo, gesturing for him to come in. )

Hey, Ryo. Thanks for coming.

( To the sleepover. Yes, it's ludicrous, and he knows it, but regardless. He blinks, eyes falling to the mugs: )

What'd you bring?

[nell_of_soulwood]

Oh my. I can't even imagine what that's like. Me, I ain't - haven't - ever slept with someone else in the bed. Not since I was just a little'un. It's weird enough here just having someone in the same room.

[jingyeets]

Really?

( Tells him something about how she lived with her much older husband and much older fellow wife, in whatever inequity that'd also been. Not that it matters, frankly. )

Guess it's another way things are different... at some point, presumably, I'd have my own, mm. Courtyard, and then I would be alone, but I'm not senior enough for that. Or if I married, then I wouldn't be alone either, it's all this or that.

( He sighs, making a sort of see saw motion. )

[nell_of_soulwood]

Mmhmm. I had my little cot in the loft that was mine. Even after John died I slept there 'cause, well, I hated the bed in the big bedroom. So I slept in my cot or on the sofa.

(It seemed unbelievable to actively want someone or someones to sleep in a bed with you whether it was for companionship or other things.)

Your own Courtyard? Like a house or the wing of a house?

Sometimes when you're married you're still pretty alone. But anyway, I hope you find some friends and such to keep you'un company there.

[gundamofthedesert]

[Quatre happened to be awake as well. Sometimes his mind just wouldn’t shut down with the number of emotions on the train so he had ended to the dining car to get some tea]

I guess that it is something people get used to. I never shared a room for most of life so sharing here on the train was different.

If you’d like someone to come over, I’d be happy to oblige.

[jingyeets]

... I'm happy for company, but if you'll want awake company, I'm... going to promise I will fall asleep on you. Either literally or figuratively?

( He doesn't mind, but that's kind of the thing, he doesn't mind talking! He just also knows he's tired and needs to rest and he will end up falling asleep as soon as he's comfortable. )

[gundamofthedesert]

[Quatre chuckled softly at Jingyi’s comment] That’s fine. Getting sleep is always good thing to do so I don’t mind if one or both of us falls asleep.

[And he didn’t seem concerned about the possibility of him falling asleep on him literally]

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[to_rise_above]

It's-- not that hard to get used to. Just requires some adjustments.

[ Though, he can kind of get the thought. Since experiencing a lot of things, he's just happy to sleep next to his dog, which is a breathing something. ]

If you need company, I guess I could. Is a problem if I bring Fairy?

[jingyeets]

( He has to pause, extended, and sigh. )

You... only being here could I expect you to say that.

( Then a wrinkled nose, and: )

Bring Fairy its own blanket.

[to_rise_above]

[ Jin Ling shrugs on his end. Hakagemachi did a lot of things to his state of being. After all, if he was from his own world, that probably would have been the answer. ]

Take it however you like.

[ At the end of the day, he's an honest fella, and his friends mattered to him a lot more than he let on. Jingyi didn't need to know the sappy details though. He'd never admit to it. ]

I got it. Fairy sleeps next to the bed most of the time anyway.

[ Though, if it decided to jump on the bed in Jin Ling's absence, well he couldn't say. ]

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[foxyou]

You have a whole room to yourself, and you're complaining? Perhaps you should consider growing up.

[If Jingyi is particularly attentive, he might catch the ends of a green ribbon dangling from Jiu's ponytail...not that this is relevant.]

[jingyeets]

( he does see a hint of green, but more important? lifting his eyebrows and opening his arms wide. He's... in his inner robes, which mostly points to the fact he's not so layered as to tell he's not stick thin, just lean built. Past that, there's zero indication of muscle tone, because robes. )

Please, do point out where I'm not grown enough.

[foxyou]

[Jiu is also lean! Though not also in his inner robes. More importantly, he frowns at the spread arms as if Lan Sizhui were shamelessly showing off a naked torso instead of...a clothed one.]

I'm afraid the mind is not something visible to the naked eye. But if you really have such a hard time sleeping alone, there are other people on this train who'd be glad to take your place. [Like himself, for example.]

[longforgottenpromise]

If you are lonely I can come over... Um I can ask Inigo and Tidus as well if you wish...

[Surely there will be enough room for four in the bed? And Inigo loved cuddling so he would definitely want to help Jingyi.]

[flatteries]

[ Guess who hears his name spoken aloud and is immediately rushing over to the nearest terminal to use it.

This guy. ]

You don't even have to ask me!

[ His eyes are close to twinkling. ]

[blitzcheer]

[ Some of us were in our own bed! Playing videogames, but hearing his name and then Inigo speaking up... ]

Is there room for five guys? Jingyi's got his tail, too.

[ It's a fatty tail. Just saying!! Leaning back in the bed in his and Inigo's room, a handheld device in hand (but it's okay, the game is paused). ]

[mynameisallen]

I have a question for your question. How have you never slept alone?

[He's not asking in a mean way, more curious since Allen was able to do such things easily, even if at times he shared with others. SO he was curious.]

[jingyeets]

Grew up in a barrack of children? To courtyards full of juniors sharing rooms. Not much personal space.

[mynameisallen]

AH, that would make it hard to be use to sleeping alone. But sometimes it's ice now and again. Even if quiet at times.

[mustknow]

What, does Elidibus kick or something? Is he a blanket thief?

[jingyeets]

He probably does.

[mustknow]

But you don't actually know? Is there something else that'd lead to excluding him alone?