"You need to sleep," Seth said to me. "Sleep? How is that going to help?" I wondered aloud.

"Well, it's not just regular sleep. You sorta need to look deep, deep into your mind, and fish out the problem. It could be something your keeping from other people, and it's making you stressed. It could be lack of certain foods. You need to really focus, sometimes you don't even need to sleep. If you just really concentrate, you should be able to find the problem. It took me 18 years to fix my problem. Which would be equal about three months of your lifespan."

What?! "I don't want to be like this for three MONTHS!" I caught myself shouting again. This was all so unlike me. Maybe Seth was right and something was bothering me enought to make me stay a foxcoon. "Stop it! That will only make this worse!" Io tried to help. "Asuka, you need to calm down," Ariel added soothingly, "Lay down and relax, work on what Seth told you." I sighed. Guess it was worth a shot.

I lyed down and easily drifted off to sleep, not surprisingly since I'd had a terrible night's sleep before hand. Deep. I have to think deep. Something I'm keeping from others? My past maybe? Nah, surely it wasn't that. Stress? No, I've been stressed since Alex left, and nothing like this has happened in the past four years. Lack of certain foods? Well, I haven't eaten what I consider "human food" in a couple of days. I wouldn't think it'd be that either though, that was no big deal for someone like me. Come on think Asuka! There's got to be SOMETHING holding you back! I wracked my brain for what felt like hours. This "digging deep" had to be more stressful than the thing I was digging for. Although I was asleep, I felt myself growing more and more agitated with myself for not knowing the answer to the problem. If you could sigh in your sleep I just did. I guess I'd go ahead and wake up and try again some other time.

I blinked open to find the group gathered around the new girl, Kasumi I believe. I got up and trotted over to where they were, all in human form of course. I glanced up and almost whispered, "Welcome to the group." Io looked excited when she saw me, "Asuka! Did you figure out the problem?" "Er, no," I mumbled, "I'm going to try again another time." "Oh, too bad," she responded looking back at Kasumi. I was also curious about her, and like the others, listened intently for her to speak up.

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Hope that was good. I feel like I'm making Asuka too emo/poor me-ish. I'll try to work on that!