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"Speaking"

/ Mind to mind speaking \

# Picture in mind to mind #

Kai awoke to the darkness of a cloudy night. Opening his eyes, he discovered that the soft, fluffy thing he was lying on was not cold grass, it was a bed. A nice, warm bed… He fidgeted around with it for a few moments, then decided it was too soft, and he would have to sleep on the floor.

Dragging his duvet to the edge of the mattress, he pushed it onto the floor. Strangely, there was a yelp and a pop, and as he lifted up the soft material, a small tiger cub crawled out. It stared cross-eyed at him for a few seconds, then Kai heard a whisper in his mind. / Kai! Come on, this is as loud as I can call, and it still makes my head hurt \ The tiger cub climbed onto his foot, and started worrying the end of his trousers.

"Rei! Stop that! Now, I'm too exhausted to do anything but sleep at the moment, so you can stay like that for the moment, or you can change yourself back. Choose." Kai folded his arms. He wasn't going to help, not even if the cute eyes were turned on. They were. He turned his head away, purposely ignoring them.

Rei's voice echoed through his mind/ Mean. Fine, I'll do it myself \

A few seconds later, Kai turned back to the floor, and peered at the boy. "So you did do it then, huh."

Rei managed to quietly pant out – that change had taken a lot of effort – "No thanks to you!"

Grinning, Kai replied, in a whisper, so as not to wake anyone, "ah, but if I hadn't refused to help, you would never have known you could do it!"

Beaten in the face of such logic, Rei glared at Kai. "Oh, shut up. And give me a hand here. I don't seem to be able to move."

Kai lifted Rei to his feet, the boy's loose hair flying. "I guess you're up for the same reason as me. These beds are too soft. Never thought I'd be complaining about that, but there you go."

"Mm-hmm. Think anyone would mind if we went and slept outside?" Rei whispered hopefully.

"Nah. Lets go!" Kai snickered, and snagged Rei's duvet off the floor as well as his own, and threw it to the other boy.

A few minutes of walk down a hallway, they arrived at a door. It seemed big enough to be the front door, and they pushed on it cautiously. It opened, but a girl sat up in the bed that was in the left corner. "Who're you?" She asked, rubbing her eyes sleepily.

"Um…" Rei thought fast. "Just dreams, that's all we are."

"No you're not." The girl got up, a determined look on her face. She stopped a foot or so away from Rei's face, and glared in his face. "What are you doing in my room? And why do you have such long hair?"

Rei flushed, and decided the best way to go was… "Run!" he yelped, and he and Kai sprinted for the door, leaving the girl looking at their deserting backs in confusion.

"Um? That was very imaginative, wasn't it!" Kai whispered as they were running.

A few corridors later, they two of them collapsed on the ground in fits of laughter. "Ooops!" Rei managed to splutter out.

Kai nodded silently, and kept on laughing. A minute or so later, he calmed down. "We had better get going. I do want to get some sleep tonight." He led the way down the hall, Rei following, still snickering every so often.

When they finally reached the correct front door, they pushed it open and smiled as the fresh, clear air flowed through them. "It's cooler out here." Kai stated.

Rei frowned. "Has it occurred to you that we're not using our 'telepathy' or whatever it's called. Never mind. Probably because we strained it earlier, when…" His face clouded over in confusement. "What did happen earlier, Kai?"

Kai thought for a moment. "I can't remember. As we both seem to have forgotten what went on, I would assume that we were not meant to know about it. I'm tired. Lets just… go and sleep now."

Rei agreed. Together, they lay down next one of the great oak trees that the mansion grounds contained, curled up around each other, and fell straight to sleep.

Chapter three done! And I am now in the car coming back from Wales, so I can go and check my email and see who reviewed! If anyone did. Which is unlikely.

Review, and get… I think my imagination is running out here…. A plushie of your choice, holding a bag of Halloween sweets! If you celebrate Halloween, that is. If not… then just tell me what sort of sweets you like, and you can have them instead!

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Kazuki