#almawt

“You didn’t strike me as the sort of person who would be made uneasy by things like that.”

Minu can’t and doesn’t blame him. He’s had too many night terrors lately revolving around some kind of all-consuming darkness to feel entirely comfortable with the light level, either. The mind plays tricks, after all, and things other than the mind are not prone to being restful at times like this, either. Never mind that it’s not a normal kind of darkness Minu fears---it might as well be, with how indecipherable that fear actually is.

“But since you are, maybe you can better understand why I’d be seeking a cure for my affliction.” It may well not be an outside force at all, considering the lack of help the Bubu Pharmacy had been. Perhaps it was something onset by an event he can’t quite remember that’ll be with him forever. But if there were any place that would be able to help with even the most impossible of problems, Minu has been told, it would be the Akademiya. “I’ve recently been plagued by a darkness I can’t describe. Nobody else has been able to remedy it---this will be my last resort.”

“I’m done being silenced!”

Though he seems irrationally irate, he’s only pretending to be genuinely put off by Cyno’s request. After all, in the grand scheme of things and in the machinations of the Akademiya, there are very few who would stop at just asking politely. It’s altogether a more generous response than Zandik would generally be afforded, coming back here.

No, not that name; he’s not that person anymore. It’s easy to forget who he is, what with so many of him running around. He’s only just become the Doctor, after all.

“Don’t you understand? I had thought you of all people might. It’s such a restrictive place---there can be no true strides made unless one abandons all restrictions placed on avenues of research. At least, that’s my philosophy. It’s a convenient place for knowledge and that’s all it is. If I could, I would say it far more openly than this.”

Describe your usual morning routine.