accidental video:

[victoria_stay]

[The device is upside down. The room it shows belongs to someone who really loves to draw. There are pictures everywhere that were clearly drawn by a kid and said child is offscreen somewhere, coughing a lot.]

Ugh.

[She doesn't like this at all. Bare feet rush past the device, more coughing and some sneezing thrown in for good measure and a tin of colored pencils hits the floor. The owner of the pencils and the aforementioned feet appears on camera long enough to clean up the mess before they disappear again.

For a moment.

Victoria's face appears on screen and this time, it's clear she's aware the device turned on.

She's paler than usual and looks tired, hair a mess and her nose is a bit red from frequent contact with a tissue.

Quietly, she reaches over with one multi-colored hand and switches the feed off but not before there's another fit of coughing from a kid who quite obviously has a cold.

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[video;]

[unflagging]

[The most paternal/elder-brother worried face ever.]

Oh, kiddo. Not you too.

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[victoria_stay]

My stomach feels weird.

[But don't worry. If she has to throw up, she'll run to the bathroom. THat much, at the very least, she is capable of.]

[video;]

[unflagging]

[...kid barf. Fantastic. On the verge of destroying the universe and he has to put up with kid barf. It's hilarious. It's like...I don't know, monster infants with an inclination to shit all over whoever's minding them. Kids.]

You stay put, kiddo. I'll be home as fast as I can, okay?

[Kid, you are unwittingly putting a damper on some well-laid plans...]

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[victoria_stay]

You don't have to come home.

[She's fine. She's more than fine. She...wants to just lie down on the floor because the floor feels nice.]

What do I do when my stomach feels like this?

[How can she fix it before anything gross happens?]

[video;]

[unflagging]

If you're sick, I think I'd better. It's no good to be sick by yourself. That's just awful.

[There's something hilariously ridiculous about this. It'd be easy to make some remark about cosmic jokes and so on. But there may be vomit in his near future, so it might be best to hold off on those for a while.]

Well, you don't eat anything, that's for sure. Just try to lie real quiet. And I suspect you'll feel better...sooner or later.

[Depending on when and how nature takes its course.]

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[victoria_stay]

[Fiiiine. Come home if you must. She's fine. Gosh.

And she gets what he's saying, so she just makes a face. A slight furrowing of eyebrows and a faint frown. No, she doesn't like anything about right now at all.]