Yukio is always some background level of stressed, no matter where he is. But being away from familiar places and roles never helps it, and coming back to somewhere he recognizes is enough to let him take a deep breath and re-center himself. He cleans the med tent, checks and maintains his herbarium (Shiemi had helped a little bit, and he wants to make sure it's even better if--), takes a moment to practice archery, goes back to the med tent, takes a call from Rin, tries to breathe. He's tired.

But it's not going to get better, especially with Rin's blindness and completely unexplained 'plan'.

Rin comes in, with Nosh, and Yukio's tongue flicks out, long and blue-black and forked. Unsurprisingly, he smells Rin and the pokemon. Surprisingly, Rin sounds... sort of how Yukio feels, but with less bite to his tone.

"Nii-san. How are you doing?" Yukio's speech isn't too impaired by the alteration to his mouth, but he's still not completely confident in his ability to pronounce things clearly.