'Blaise. ' Dazai said, blinking. He tried not to sigh too loudly, but the other snake had always been adept at reading cues like that, regardless, so there wasn 't really a point. 'Can we do this tomorrow? '

Blaise looked over Dazai 's tense shoulders with quiet eyes. The Slytherin common room was empty except for them, everyone else likely having retired already. But that didn 't stop Dazai from feeling claustrophobic under his new bandages. Blaise, though he must have been waiting some time, was still in his daily robes and looking presentable as ever.

How annoying that Dazai could halt the panicked beating of his heart, but he couldn 't make himself look as put together as Blaise could. Maybe it was the lack of expression. Right then, Blaise 's face seemed to suggest he was thinking a great deal about what he had to say, where Dazai was sure his own face wasn 't doing much more than looking tired.