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By morning, he’s a jittery, exhausted mess. Not sleeping enough is fairly typical, but the extra burden of stress wears him down past the point of ‘normal’. Reiji kneels in his cage, facing the outward aisle, and tries to focus on keeping his posture ruler-straight— it’s an outlet for the nerves, and also (he hopes) a way to make himself even a little more presentable. The humans who pass through the shelter’s narrow aisles are roughly the same as usual; curious, yet visibly disinterested in every underfed, desperate-looking vampire they pass. Most pause for long enough to skim the information clipped to the front of each cage and look over the pitiful creature within it, and nothing more. Nonetheless, Reiji’s chest goes tight with foolish, involuntary hope each time one so much as looks at him— then sinks all over again when they inevitably lose interest and move on. Or at least, that’s the ever-consistent, ever-miserable pattern as it always is... right up until one of the humans passing by his cage stays. . . . Pet Au. Reiji gets a home (and is terrified of losing it).

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