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Characters: Saber (Alter) and You! (One prompt will have both Saber (Alter) and Irisviel von Einzbern, still open to anyone who wishes to talk to them both.)
Setting: various floors over Dec 14th - 17th (4th, Cafeteria, 47th, 8th and 25th)
Format: Starting Action, but I'll match.
Summary: Saber is sick and takes a moment of indulgence, which leads to problems for the ~~king~~ knight.
Warnings: Stage 2 symptoms involving hallucinations which may lead to violence for the prompts after the first. Also, Fate/Zero spoilers in the 3rd prompt.

[Dec 14th - Floor 4 - with Irisviel (OPEN)]

[With the heat out in the Tower and her lady sick, Saber felt the need to see to Irisviel as best as she could. Never mind that the knight was sick herself - at least she didn't have a fever - her prana still made her the equivalent of a space heater. So it was with the desire to keep the Einzbern magus warm that one could find Saber and Irisviel sitting quite close together on a couch. Draped over them both was Saber's royal blue and fur trimmed greatcloak. The cloak mostly hid the way Saber had her arm about the woman, holding her tenderly against her.

She needed to keep Irisviel warm, after all, and this was quite... relaxing. Even so, the knight watched the passage of the others, coughing a little now and then.]

[ooc: Responses in this prompt will come from both Saber and Irisviel.]

[Dec 15th - Cafeteria]

[Saber was crossing the cafeteria when she suddenly stopped upon the sight of someone. Eyes going wide as if she had seen a ghost, Saber half-reached a hand out before closing it into a fist at her side. She then strode purposefully toward an occupied table with a few empty seats still. Once there, she put both hands on the table.]

My knig--

[She then cut herself off, eyes blinking rapidly as she looked over the empty seats with confusion, paying little attention to those actually sitting there... for the moment.]

[Dec 15th - Floor 47]

[In full armor, Saber moved through the hanging curtains as if searching for something.]

Wait! You and I must speak! I must know if I was the one responsible!

[She suddenly spins around, a look of caution and... paranoia on her face before pulling a sheet aside. Instantly, a monster descends upon her, but the King of Knights was a powerful Servant and the monster was cut down almost as quickly as it appeared by a sword obscured by swirling black and red prana, making it neigh impossible to determine it's exact shape or size.

Once dead, the sword disappears and Saber suddenly looks to the side. Heading that way, she calls out again.]

I am your king! You must heed me. Halt, Lancelot!

[A moment later, Saber stops with a disgruntled sound in the back of her throat, hand coming up to massage her temple. Was she seeing things? Lancelot wasn't there. He couldn't be. She would've felt his presence. Right? So why was she seeing him?]

[Dec 16th - Floor 8]

[She'd seen him go into this maze. The mental puzzle was something that certainly would've appealed to him. She would find him. He would have answers for her.

...and she sorely wished to see her old teacher again, the wise man of great magics that guided her when she was young. If only she could FIND him. Saber wandered through the maze, in search of him, sometimes speeding up, sometimes slowing down. Perhaps someone would come upon her when she stopped, hand on the wall, brow furrowed in thought as she caught her breath.]

[Dec 17th - Floor 25]

[Saber sought out the refuge of the meadow. She sat looking very much unlike the strong, stoic knight she normally was. Arms propped on her knees, she held her head in her hands, bowed with her eyes closed. Her greatcloak spread out across the grass as it hung from her shoulders, and her pale hair was fully down, loose about her shoulders.

...she was going insane. She had to be. Why else would she be seeing them?

Feeling a presence nearby, she glanced up at something in front of her. Oh. Him. She felt the phantom pain in her side where his blade had pierced her, striking a fatal wound in another life.]

Go away, son. I have nothing left to say to you that I can put into words. Please... leave me be.

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[Once again, Tohko managed to wander into the cafeteria. She had been staying close to the library and the cafeteria, as she wasn't quite sure what to do, now that most of her senses were gone. She was about to bang on a nearby counter when she heard Saber speak.]

Saber? Is that you? What knight are you talking to?

[It took a moment for Saber to acknowledge that she was being spoken to. Looking over to find her roommate, the knight shook her head.]

N-no one. I appear to have been mistaken.

[Tohko sighed and smacked her hand on the counter. Hearing a small nutrition bar on it rustle, she moved her hand until she heard the two touch.]

I see..if you're having hallucination, you might want to go to the clinic. Hearing and seeing things isn't good.

I doubt the clinic can help me. What of yourself?

[The clumsiness wasn't missed.]

[Tohko sighed again as she grabbed the bar and, using her memory, managed to open the wrapper. Using her ears, she could tell that she was successful.]

I don't think the clinic can help me either. I'm not sure what can. The flu I had has taken away my sight, my taste, and my ability to feel things. It's quite a pain.

[Tohko then bit into the bar, chewed, and swallowed.]

The flu does not do that. You are suffering from something far greater than the flu to lose senses. That is typically the work of poison or magic.

However, it started out as just a simple flu. I kept sneezing, and I had light fevers..but slowly, my senses were drained and eventually disappeared. I think any symptoms of the flu are gone..but my senses haven't healed.

[Tohko took another bite.]

You do not know if the flu and your current condition are connected. It could be that the flu lowered your body's ability to fight off whatever is causing this now.

That's a possibility..but I had the flu long before my senses started going, and the symptoms of a flu stayed with me until just recently. Of course, I'm not a doctor, so I could be wrong.

Logic would say that if the flu was responsible, when the flu went away, so would the other effects.

That's true..but if some other illness is affecting me, I can't think as to what it is.

Poison or magic. I have never heard of an illness itself that took away senses. If Merlin was here, he would know the answer.

Well, there are some psychological illnesses that can do that..but..Saber, do you know Merlin? Does he exist in your world?

[Tohko thought that Saber belong to some modern-day group of the Round Table..but now, she wasn't quite sure.]

Merlin has long since passed, but when I was younger her tutored me in many things and granted me counsel many times when I came into my own.

Saber..are you actually King Arthur?

[There is a long bit of silence between Saber pulls out the chair next to Tohko and sits down. She would not lie and was asked directly. When she speaks, she keeps her voice low so it wouldn't carry beyond the two of them.]

My true name is Arturia Pendragon, rightful heir of Uther Pendragon. I am Arthur, King of the Britons.

But please, continue to call me Saber.

[So, Saber wasn't part of a modern-day version of The Knights of The Round Table. She was the actual person who founded it. First an Alexander The Great and now this..]

I see..it's nice to know who you really are, but why didn't you tell me the truth when we first met? And why should I continue to call you Saber?

Saber is the name I wish to go by now and it is not in the nature of one involved in the war I was in before arriving here to give one's true identity out to another until it has been earned or discovered on its own. To know who I am is to know my strengths and weaknesses. Such things are very dangerous to have known in war.

I cannot and will not explain it any further to you. I apologize for that, but it is for your own safety.

[Tohko thought on this and nodded. It sounded like the situation Lancer was in..which probably meant that Alexander was involved in this situation as well. However, when she heard of a war, she thought of Waver and his situation. Curious, she had to ask.]

I see..I understand. Pardon..but you weren't involved in a war for the Holy Grail, were you?

I was. Where did you hear of it?

I found out about it from Waver.

Of course, the boy would speak of it openly. [Saber sighs a bit.]

Actually..he didn't speak openly about it. There were some small hints in his words and things that I puzzled over, so I found out some of it and he told me the rest when he found that he couldn't hide. He did tell me that the war was kept secret though..and that anyone who found out had their memory erased of it.

[Tohko sighed.]

He still needs to learn to guard his words better.

Maybe..but there probably isn't anything wrong with talking about the war here. After all, this isn't your world. There's no war for the Grail here.