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Who: Danny and Anyone
Where: Various
When: Kazoo 23 and 24
What: Danny has been making some poor decisions. Oops.

Kitchen, Late Night:

Danny had no clue why, but lately he'd been having an impossible time getting to sleep. And when he did sleep, it was with weird dreams that left him disturbed even after waking.

Tonight, after hours of trying and failing to get to sleep, he'd given up and made his way to the kitchen. Maybe some hot chocolate would help.

Gym Car, Afternoon

Danny was feeling weirdly restless, and couldn't seem to shake it. After his usual distractions fail, he ends up just pacing restlessly back and forth across the ceiling of the gym car.

As you do,

Standard Car, Various:

And again and again, Danny kept giving into the urge to find his way back to the window and stare into the void. Maybe it started because he was weirdly homesick for the zone, and there was some faint similarity here. But now... he couldn't shake the feeling that if he could just look into the void a little longer, see into it a lot of further, maybe he would be able to understand something.

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"...Danny?"

Kitty had just come by to do a bit of training, as she did quite a bit. And while finding Danny in the Gym wasn't unusual (and neither was him on the ceiling, to be honest), it was the pacing that was a bit odd.

Danny, still standing on the ceiling, looks down to spot the familiar face. He gives her a wave.

"Oh, hi! What's up?"

Besides him.

She returns the wave, though can't help the concerned expression as she looks up at him. "Nothing much," she says slowly. "How about you? Everything okay?"

He pauses just a little too long before answering.

"Oh yeah, everything's cool."

He steps off the ceiling and flips right side up as he floats down to the ground.

His hesitation only deepens her concern, as she waits for him to land. "You sure? Most people don't pace like for nothing."

He shrugs, a little uncertainly.

"I'm just thinking about some stuff. No big deal."

"Yeah?" she asks, a little hesitant herself. She doesn't want to push too much, but... "Anything you might wanna talk about? Sometimes it helps bouncing things off of other people."

Danny thinks a moment, trying to put it into words.

"Like I said, its not really a big deal. I just feel weirdly restless, like I can't settle down and chill." He shrugs it off. "I probably just have cabin fever or something. I mean, usually I'd just go on a night flight, but there isn't really anywhere I can do that here."

Kitty frowned a bit. She had a slight feeling it was more than that, but without any proof she couldn't really push at it.

So, thinking for a moment, she said instead, "Well, if you're feeling a little restless, how about a little late-night training? That usually seems to help."

Not her, necessarily, but she knew a few people who seemed to like doing it when they couldn't sleep.

Danny considers that.

"I guess that could help."

Not like flying. But it would be something.

With a smile, she nods. "Okay. Should we do a regular match with no powers? Just to start off?"

"Sure sounds like a plan." He grins suddenly. "I still kind of suck at no powers fights, so I totally expect you to win."

She snickers. "Hey, you're pretty clever. I'm sure you'll find ways to surprise me."

Shifting a bit into a fighting stance, she grins. "Whenever you're ready."

He shifts into a stance, then pauses and corrects himself into a stance not meant for immediately leaping into the air.

"Okay, ready."

And he moves forward into a leg sweep to start.

While he quickly comes at her, she manages to grab his shoulders and move her foot before he can catch it, then tries to shove him back before he can recover his balance.

His balance had improved since he'd started learning how to fight for real. But it hadn't improved that much. He falls back into a roll and comes back to his feet.

Once he's back on his feet it's her turn to run at him, throwing a few punches at him.

He backs up as he tries to block the punches, until he finally sees an opportunity and punches forward at an opening.

She just barely manages to block his attack, but it still catches her off-guard and she stumbles back, leaving herself a bit open.

Danny seizes the advantage while he has it, and keeps pressing on the offensive, going in for another leg sweep.

This time the leg sweep does catch, and she lands hard on her back on the mat. But she recovers quickly, rolling onto her front to get back onto her feet and flipping back.

Then she rushes forward again.

Now its Danny's turn to flip back and try to get some extra space.

She follows, and as he lands on his feet she tries a leg sweep of her own.

He dodges back to try and avoid the leg sweep, but the move was too much for his balance and he has to stumble back a step, off balance,

She moves after him, following the sweep with a punch to try and take advantage of his unsteadiness.

Raven was having some trouble herself, and had just woken up. Coming to the kitchen in search of tea, she's surprised to find Danny there. "Hey."

Danny waves at Raven. He was standing by the microwave as he waited for the milk to finish heating.

"Hey. Trouble sleeping?"

"Little bit. You?" Raven pulls down the tea supplies, and sets the kettle to heating.

He shrugs the question off.

"Eh, sleeps overrated anyway."

Coming from someone who had spent the first half of his time on the train relishing in being able to get a full nights sleep for the first time in two years, this was not perhaps reassuring.

"I'm pretty sure I sent out a network post about solutions to sleep problems recently, Danny."

"Oh yeah, I think I saw that!" A beat. "But really, I'm fine."

"Danny." Raven said, although she made sure her tone was gentle. "Firstly, I can usually tell when someone is lying. And second, I wouldn't believe you. You've seemed...off lately." Tilting her head, she looked at him, and asked genuinely. "Do you want to talk about it?"

"I'm not lying!" he protests uncertainly. Trying very hard not to think about certain things was totally different.

"At least I don't think I am? I do feel fine. Just, you know, a little weird. Which kind of passes for normal for me?"

"I'll agree with that, but this is clearly a weird that's on your mind." Raven said, with some honest concern.

"Well, maybe a little?" An awkward shrug. "I haven't been sleeping that well. But maybe that's something that just happens to ghosts from my world? Or it could be something else."

Thanatos had planned on getting some practice in. Sword, scythe, manadrive, it doesn't which. However, seeing someone walking around on the gym ceiling changes his mind quickly. One train mystery has been solved.

"... So you're the one leaving footprints up there."

Danny glances down (or was that up) at his feet, and suddenly notices that he had left some footprints.

"Oh man, I completely didn't notice."

Which is more annoying: believing someone didn't care about the mess he made or someone oblivious to the mess he created? The later appears to be the truth, though Thanatos doesn't know how much he he's going to judge the partial shade.

Thanatos hovers to more Danny's level so neither has to crane their necks so much. "Do you walk on the ceilings often?"

"Eh, more here than I do at home" Danny shrugs a little uncertainly. "There's not too many places on the train where you can get away from people, you know? And the ceilings usually don't have much traffic."

Thanatos thinks that the cars without double height will still have traffic despite the orientation change. However, he's not about to argue something pointless like that. He has other concerns. "Well, now that you know you've been leaving footprints, you can clean up after yourself. Not everyone can reach up here."

"Uh, sure? No problem. I mean I could mop the ceilings or something while I'm up here."

He'd vacuumed the lab ceilings back home more than once.

"That would be appreciated." Not all teams are as large as Danny's, and with fewer people on the team, there are even fewer willing to help with chores. Whenever it is Red's turn to do anything, it's a lot of work.

"I'll leave you to continue your solitude." And with that, Thanatos shifts away. Training can wait for another time.

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