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Who: heroes
When: day 30, midnight to dawn
Where: the train

[At precisely midnight a clock bell tolls, loud and mournful in the quiet night. An owl screeches, the dramatic chords of an organ start to play then are cut short in a jangle of notes.

If you're awake a hoarse voice growls, it might wake you even if you're asleep.]

Arise, heroes, and sate your hunger.

[Those not sleeping through all this will find a sudden spike in their primal urges. The needs of any form they possess may overcome reason, and the desire to slake thirsts both literal and metaphorical is intense.

If you're a wolf perhaps you want to hunt or draw close to your pack, if your taste is in blood, well. If you're just human it might be that your darker desires, possessiveness or even curiosity get the better of you in ways you don't normally let them. Desires need not be violent or sexually charged, but should be things your characters harbor at least some inclination towards wanting even if they deny it usually. Fluffy desires are still desires.

By morning light the effects will fade. And you'll all feel far less tired than you'd expect for a night partying.]

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[whines sulkily woooooo]

So restless. And I was actually asleep! Really asleep!

You been having trouble sleeping?

I've been having trouble sleeping for a month.

Oooh jeez. Any way I can help?

[lays down and puts her head on her paws with a big doggie SIGH]

I don't know. I'm not against help and I know what the problem is, but what works during the day isn't going to work at night when everybody else needs to be sleeping too.

What works?

I need to feel less homesick and I need to feel safer. Getting my beginner's ward and my familiars back helped a lot, and turning into a wolf has been surprisingly helpful... During the day it's just— Getting hugs from a couple people has been great when I need them?

Work is my main thing, but my studies keep me up until I'm too tired to not sleep.

[Sitting next to her.]

That doesn't sound great. Not healthy either. What would help you feel safe at night?

[shuffles around to put her big wolfy head on his lap]

I don't know. Everything I've tried was always enough when I've traveled before. If it wasn't, I could call someone— but I can't call anyone here. Not Jonathan, not Lisa, not my mom or Kasey or Hana or anybody. I'm almost about to try sleeping on the beach because that's familiar, but that's actually unsafe and I'll probably just end up missing Tiberius too. I camp in his ribs.

[Scritches her ears. ]

Would sharing a room with someone help?

[Camping in ribs. Cool.]

[the perks of necromancing giant dragons

thumps her tail a couple times, thanks]

...Maybe? I haven't thought about that.

There's a enough girls around you could probably ask to room with.

[Just assuming a girl would be preferable.]

Though I imagine anyone who isn't too fussy about space wouldn't mind the company.

Fang would be too scandalized if I asked him, unless one or both of us was wolves maybe.

[pricking her ears up, giving this some serious thought]

Naeva doesn't need to sleep, but she might be willing... She knows I sleep badly, and maybe having her nearby would be enough.